RESULTS OF THE GOSPEL IN DENMARK AND SWEDEN—SKETCHESAND OBSERVATIONS ON THE COUNTRY AND PEOPLE—REMARKABLEEVENTS—LATE PERSECUTIONS AND PRESENT ASPECT OF AFFAIRS.
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BY ERASTUS SNOW,
ONE OF THE TWELVE APOSTLES OF THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OFLATTER-DAY SAINTS.
PRICE THREEPENCE.
LIVERPOOL:
PUBLISHED BY F. D. RICHARDS, 15, WILTON STREET.
1851.
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LIVERPOOL: PRINTED BY R. JAMES, SOUTH CASTLE STREET.
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Extract of a Letter fromErastus 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
The author was born in the State of Vermont, November 9th, 1818;first believed the fulness of the Gospel in the spring of 1832; firstsaw the Prophet Joseph Smith in December, 1835, in Kirtland, Ohio,which was then head quarters of the Church, was ordained one of theSeventies the following spring, and has been engaged in the ministryever since; was with the Saints through their persecutions in Missouriand Illinois; was in prison with the Prophets, Joseph and Hyrum, inMissouri; carried the chain for surveying the first town lots ofNauvoo; was one of the two Latter-day Saints who first entered SaltLake Valley; has crossed the back-bone of the American continent fourtimes, and travelled, probably, not less than eighty thousand mileson that continent, but never, until this mission, left his nativeshore, or was absent from his family more than one year at a time. Andduring 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 asone year with the single exception of one year and twenty-nine daysin the Salt Lake city, prior to this mission. Robbed and plundered incommon with his brethren, he transplanted his family through povertyand deep affliction to that resting place. The first year spent insurmounting the difficulties of a new country, and while collectingmaterials for building, the voice of inspiration cried, "To thenations, oh! ye elders of Israel." His destination was Denmark; tobe accompanied by brother P. O. Hanson, a native of Copenhagen, whohad been mysteriously led by the Spirit to America, in search of theKingdom of God, and found it in time to sup with the Saints their cupof afflictions, and accompany them to the mountains. Thursday, of thesame week in which the mission was first intimated, was fixed forstarting, though subsequent circumstances caused a little longer delay.The parting is left to conjecture. God be thanked for a family thatamid the overflowing emotions of the heart never say "don't go." Thejourney over the plains, four hundred miles of mud, through Missouri;the trip through the Sta