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 — John Shaqi
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
After hearing of the arrest and treatment of Brother Forssgren in
Sweden, I wrote to him to come over to Denmark and labour with us. A
few days after I felt much anxiety for his safety; and fearing lest
the Swedish government should either put him in close confinement, or
smuggle him away privately to the United States, we unitedly prayed
that he might be delivered and come to us in safety. I went to bed,
and dreamed of seeing him in water up to his arms, and held by a man
whom I understood to be an officer. I thought he was anxious to come
to where I stood on the shore. The officer seemed waiting for the
decision of his superiors, whom I saw with a crowd at a distance. He
received his orders, but I could not understand them. Brother Forssgren
was immediately released, and pressed hard through the water to come
to me; but, before he got out of reach, the officer thrust his hand
quickly under the water behind, and caught his leg or garment, and
pulled his feet from under him, which dipped his head under water. I
saw his perilous situation, but could not render him any assistance.
Another man, of a kind expression of countenance, stood near them, to
whom Brother Forssgren called with an agonizing voice for help. He went
and raised his head out of the water, and made the officer let him go.
He started again to come to me, and I awoke. September 18th, Brother
Forssgren arrived in Copenhagen and related his story, which explained
my dream. It runs as follows:--After being examined and bearing
testimony before the authorities, civil and ecclesiastical, in Geffle
and Stockholm, he was held as a prisoner at large in the latter place,
not being permitted to preach or to leave town; but the newspapers
published accounts of his doings and sayings, and his whereabouts in
Stockholm, and the result was that many people flocked to see him,
both from town and country. He was invited to visit among them, and
to their mechanic club meetings. Thus he instructed many in private,
and made many warm friends; and, as some began to desire baptism, the
police took him by night and put him on board an American vessel, which
was ready to start for New York; paid his passage, and requested the
captain to see that he did not land until he reached New York. But
Elder Forssgren soon won the friendship of the captain; and when they
arrived at Elsinore, where the vessel called to pay toll, the captain
landed him on Danish ground. Very soon after landing he was arrested
by the Danish police, at the instigation of the Swedish consul of that
place, and was about to be re-shipped for New York.
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