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
No news from those brethren lately sent out on missions. We hope to
hear from you soon.
Your ever humble servant, and brother in the new and everlasting
covenant,
J. E. FORSSGREN.
P.S.--Last week eight were baptized, and the work is taking root among
the better quality of people.
AN EXTRACT FROM ELDER SNOW'S REPLY.
_Rock Ferry, July_ 11_th_, 1851.
Beloved brother,--Yours of the first instant is received. * * * I
sincerely sympathize with the Saints in Aalborg in their trials, and
pray that the grace of God may be sufficient for them. I doubt not that
what they did was with the purest motive; and I have faith in God, that
he is able to overrule all for good in the end, and hope that it may
contribute to arouse and combine the energies of the right minded in
favour of truth and freedom.
I hope the scenes growing out of that public baptism, and the imprudent
sayings of the brethren on that occasion, however painful the results,
may serve as a lesson of wisdom and experience for all Saints in that
land from henceforth.
Where a cold indifference prevails, a little _healthy excitement_ to
arouse the public mind to investigation may be profitable, provided it
can be controlled, and the _truth kept before the people_. But Denmark
is not England nor America--religious liberty is not grounded in the
hearts of the people. They are under the influence of their priests and
attached to their religion--once their feelings outraged, the voice of
truth or reason cannot be heard. While a little fire kindled upon the
hearth, in a cold day, is very convenient, all will admit the folly
of firing the house, by which the inmates might be consumed or left
houseless in mid winter.
Counsel the Saints in Aalborg to continue their little meetings for
prayer and exhortation, if they can, without excitement: and if you
can, you had better send them an Elder, not known there, to encourage
and minister among them until I come, which I trust will not be long.
DENMARK
GENERAL OBSERVATIONS ON THE COUNTRY AND PEOPLE.
Denmark Proper is but a small state, including the peninsula of Jutland
and the islands of the Cattegat, and those of the southern and western
parts of the Baltic, to which is attached the dukedoms of Sleswick,
Holstein, Oldenburg and Lauenburg, the most of whose inhabitants use
the German language. Her foreign dependencies, like those of Great
Britain, are far more extensive than her home dominions. These have
their peculiar dialects, and use the Danish language only in part,
chiefly in public affairs and business transactions, and even her
home provinces and islands have great dialectic peculiarities, to a
considerable extent unintelligible to each other. But the literature
of Copenhagen is the regular and standard language, if in truth it can
be said to have a standard. But the language, like the people, is so
surrounded and intermixed with others, that changes and improvements
are very considerable, and its laws quite unsettled.
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