ONE YEAR IN SCANDINAVIA: RESULTS OF THE GOSPEL IN DENMARK AND SWEDEN--SKETCHES AND OBSERVATIONS ON THE COUNTRY AND PEOPLE--REMARKABLE EVENTS--LATE PERSECUTIONS AND PRESENT ASPECT OF AFFAIRS. * * * * * BY ERASTUS SNOW, ONE OF THE TWELVE APOSTLES OF THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS. PRICE THREEPENCE. LIVERPOOL: PUBLISHED BY F. D. RICHARDS, 15, WILTON STREET. 1851. * * * * * LIVERPOOL: PRINTED BY R. JAMES, SOUTH CASTLE STREET. * * * * * CONTENTS. Extract of a Letter from Erastus Snow to the First Presidency. August 17th, 1850 Extract from the Private Journal of E. Snow. Letter to Z. Snow, Esq., of Canton, Ohio. February 14th, 1851 Letter to President Brigham Young. Liverpool, July 10th, 1851 Extract of a Letter from Elder Forssgren. July 1st, 1851 Extract from Elder Snow's Reply. Rock Ferry, July 11th, 1851 DENMARK--General Observations on the Country and People. SWEDEN--General Observations on the state of the Country, politically and religiously--Visions, Marvellous Occurrences and Events--Present Prospects, &c. POETRY.--Wife, Children, and Friends. INTRODUCTION. The author was born in the State of Vermont, November 9th, 1818; first believed the fulness of the Gospel in the spring of 1832; first saw the Prophet Joseph Smith in December, 1835, in Kirtland, Ohio, which was then head quarters of the Church, was ordained one of the Seventies the following spring, and has been engaged in the ministry ever since; was with the Saints through their persecutions in Missouri and Illinois; was in prison with the Prophets, Joseph and Hyrum, in Missouri; carried the chain for surveying the first town lots of Nauvoo; was one of the two Latter-day Saints who first entered Salt Lake Valley; has crossed the back-bone of the American continent four times, and travelled, probably, not less than eighty thousand miles on that continent, but never, until this mission, left his native shore, or was absent from his family more than one year at a time. And during a period of over twelve years, in which he has had a family, he has at no one time been permitted to remain with them so long as one year with the single exception of one year and twenty-nine days in the Salt Lake city, prior to this mission. Robbed and plundered in common with his brethren, he transplanted his family through poverty and deep affliction to that resting place. The first year spent in surmounting the difficulties of a new country, and while collecting materials for building, the voice of inspiration cried, "To the nations, oh! ye elders of Israel." His destination was Denmark; to be accompanied by brother P. O. Hanson, a native of Copenhagen, who had been mysteriously led by the Spirit to America, in search of the Kingdom of God, and found it in time to sup with the Saints their cup of afflictions, and accompany them to the mountains. Thursday, of the same week in which the mission was first