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Show EVERYBODY SMILES IN QUAINT DANISH CITY, MISSIONARY RELATES business center of northern Europe, and it is here where many great men come to hold their meetings and make the laws to govern the people. All tourists like Copenhagen because it is so quaint. Some call it the "Great White Way" of northern Europe, because of the great pleasure pleas-ure palace, "Tivoli," where the world laughs and plays. Copenhagen Is noted for beautiful churches and towers. Among these is the "True Domme Church" which is world famous, due to the Statues of Christ and his twelve Apostles, prepared by Thorveldsen, a great Danish sculptor. sculp-tor. After being in Copenhagen for a week or so, and having taken a trip up to Hamlet's castle which is world famous, we board a ship and start to travel in a northeast direction. di-rection. After being .on the water for about eight hours we come to Aarhus. It is in this city that I am now working and have found it to be the best place in Denmark. Aarhus Aar-hus is called the "City of Smiles." Here one will see every person with a smile on his face for he seems to be enjoying life in abundance. This city is next to Copenhagen in size. Here in Aarhus are found many beautiful forests and little streams and lakes where the Danishman and his family can go in the summer and enjoy Mother Nature. The Danish people are great lovers of nature, and whenever there is a day that is good they will be seen walking out in the forests and along the ocean Editor's Note: Mr. Anderson, who writes the following fol-lowing letter from the mission field, is a former American Fork resident. Mr. Anderson is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Anderson. Borupsgade 12 Aarhus, Denmark January 20, 1938 Dear Friends: May I send you greetings from the little land of Denmark In the northern part of Europe. I left Utah in the winter of 1937 to become be-come a student of religion and to also study the customs and ways of the Danish people. I have been in this land for about two years and can say that I am enjoying my stay very much. I have found Denmark to be a wonderful place. Here we find many forests and small lakes and streams which give it that "something" that makes it one of the Seven Wonders Of The World. We find that people who live in this land are very kind and quite nice to the people they come in contact with. The first thoughts of a Danishman Da-nishman is to give his children the best that can be had and at the same time keep his farms and his house in order. The first city that we come to after we leave England, is Esjberg. This small city is called by many the "little Chicago" of Denmark. Here we find that the streets run in the same manner as they do in Salt Lake City and in other cities In America, running at right angles ' to each other. Fishing is the principal prin-cipal industry, and if one is down to the harbor in the morning he will see the fishermen and their small boats going out to sea, to catch the fish that live in that beautiful beau-tiful sea. From here we take our travels to the capital of Denmark, Copenhagen. This city is where the King and the Queen, and all the Royal Family live in peace and comfort. The King and his Royal Family are very kind people, and they love to meet their fellow mem I have had the chance to talk to them and I know that they are nice. Copenhagen is known as the shore. The King of Denmark vacations in his Aarhus castle every summer. Each morning one can receive a cheery "Good Day" as he takes his morning ride or walk through the parks. He is quite alone and happy. hap-py. How different from a dictator about two hundred miles south of here who goes no place without a guard and is cunningly scheming for power at all costs. In "Memory Park" built- in remembrance of the World War soldiers, and the "Old City" which is Denmark from a century cen-tury ago, can we see the wine' cellars, cel-lars, water mills, ginger bread stores, and the wind mills. This is truly a monument to olden culture. My travels in Denmark have been very interesting , to me from the fact that by grandparents have trodden this same land centuries before me. In my work I come to a few conclusions which perhaps would be of benefit to every Christian Chris-tian person. The Christian world is striving after one God, tout it is m doubt as to which . laws and ordinances ordi-nances belong to our Savior's Gospel. Gos-pel. It is impossible for all the different dif-ferent Christian churches to be the "Only True One," because there is only one God. Therefore, there must be many man-made-teachings among doctrines of the various churches. If we could only segregate segre-gate God's laws from man's laws ' and teachings, we would be on the track to religious unity. May I implore you to' search for the truth and keep on searching until you find the same teachings that Christ taught, while he was on the earth. But in our search let us not fight among ourselves so that the Old Jewish Rabbi shakes, his finger at us, the ' Christian world, saying, "You've had Christ's teachings for 2000 years and haven't begun to live them." With this letter I wish to send by best regards to the good people who live there in American Fork. Yours truly, Harold Yates Anderson Danish Mission |