One year in Scandinavia : $b results of the gospel in Denmark and Sweden; sketches and observations on the country and people; remarkable events; late persecutions and present aspect of affairsSnow, Erastus Fairbanks
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One year in Scandinavia : $b 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
Snow, Erastus Fairbanks
Denmark -- Description and travel; Latter Day Saint churches -- Missions -- Denmark; Latter Day Saint churches -- Missions -- Sweden; Snow, Erastus Fairbanks, 1818-1888 -- Correspondence; Sweden -- Description and travel
I feel that I have done the best I could under the circumstances, and
that the Lord has accepted it and will add his blessing. As the Saints
began to peruse its sacred pages, the Holy Ghost descended upon them,
and bore record of it in a marvellous manner, speaking to some in
dreams, visions, and divers manifestations, which caused our hearts to
magnify the Lord.
In September, I published a small work, entitled "The Voice of Truth to
the honest in heart," containing a sketch of the rise of the Church and
its doctrines; and in March I published one containing the articles of
the Church, and several extracts of revelations, for the instruction
and government of the Saints, and also a small collection of some of
our best hymns, put into Danish, and adapted to the tunes used in Zion.
These little publications were a great help to us, and a source of much
joy to the Saints.
Those who have laboured as you have for many years in a cold world to
preach the word of life, can easier imagine than I can describe the
sensations of our bosoms on hearing the Songs of Zion in a foreign
tongue, and the Saints relate their dreams and visions, and pray
for Zion and the Presidency, and the travelling Elders and Saints
throughout the earth.
On the 15th September, 1850, we duly organized "Jesu Christi Kirke af
sidste dages Helege" in Denmark, consisting of fifty members. We had
been baptizing and confirming from the 12th of August, but had operated
privately in small family gatherings, for I felt constrained to refrain
from any attempt at public meetings.
We now presented our organization and sketch of our faith, before the
"Cultus-minister" and board of magistrates, and obtained permission to
procure a place of worship and hold meetings, but he informed us that
we might meet obstruction from the police.
Elder John E. Forssgren being banished from Sweden, arrived in
Copenhagen on the 18th September. Soon after this elder Dykes was
appointed to commence labour in Aalborg, in the province of Jutland,
where he soon established a branch of the Church. I thought to send
brother Forssgren to the island of Bornholm, which formerly belonged
to Sweden, and has a dialect nearly allied to the Swedish; but he was
positively refused a pass to that or any other province. The reason
assigned by the president of the police department was, that he had
taken upon himself, at the request of the Swedish government, to see
to it, that Forssgren did not make his escape into Sweden. He has
consequently remained in and about Copenhagen ever since, and has been
a great help to me, for he was soon able to make himself understood
by the Danes, as well or better than myself; besides, there were many
native Swedes in Copenhagen, many of whom are now numbered among our
best members.
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