Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-01-30
CHURCH HISTORICAL RECORDS.
Elder Jrns0n's Work of Collecting \ h m
iu Foreign Lands NeariI & Com
pletiOu.

The following letter, dated Archivs'
trasse 20 Bern, Switzerland, January nth
1897, has been received by Church His
torldn Franklin ID. Richards, by whose
courtesy it is given for publication.
Dear Brother.-Since last wrote you
from Christiania under date OF Septem-
Der 10th 1896, have visited all the con.
ferences III the Scandinavian mission,
and have finished my work in Sweden
and Denmark; but not in Norway, where
time only permitted me to make a start.
deemed ii best to attend some OF the
conference meetings in other parts OF
the mission; and this necessitated my
leaving too soon to attend to all my
labors i'll Norway, nor were the books
gathered together SO that could have
perused them there.
have gathered together from six con-
ierences in the scandinavian mission
about 900 old records, which are not
needed any more in the mission, but
which are OF great historical value
Some of these found in unsafe hands,
and in very unsafe places; so consider
ed it best to send them to headquarters
| packed them IN four good-sized boxes,
and left them in Copenhagen TO be sent
home by an emigrant company,in charge
OF returning Elders, in the spring,
found the Scandinavian mission re-
cords well kept as rule, and pretty
complete: some, however, are lost, and
many more would no doubt have been
lost in the near future, had not come
along to save them,
left Copenhagen, Denmark, Tor the
Swiss and German mission on December
I4th, and on my way to Bern, Switzer-
land, the headquarters OF said mission,
| visited the branches OF the Church in
Kid, Hamburg, Hanover. Berlin, Leip-
zlg, Dresden. Nuremberg, Munich,
Winterthun (where | attended an in
teresting conference together with
twenty-one other Elders from Zion, on
Christmas day. Schatihausen, Zurich
and Langnair. AT these different places
| enjoyed pleasant associations with the
Elders from Zion, many OF whom are
young men and nearly all OF them are
on their FIRST missions.
arrived at Bern on the last day OF the
year 1896. Since then have been busily
engaged at the mission office here at
tending to my historical labors. find
in this mission good and complete re.
cords OF ordinance work from the be-
ginning; but minute books are lacking
III most OF the branches and conferences
On January 5rd 1897, Elder George L
Maggie who had presided over the SWISS
and German mission for nearly thee
years, LEFT for home, accompanied BY
his wife and child. He leaves a fine re-
cord behind. Elder Peter Loutensock.
bishop OF the Eureka ward. Iuab county,
succeeds him in the presidency OF the
mission, which is in progressive and
prosperous condition.
expect to finish up my labors here in
another couple OF weeks, during which
intend to make visit 10 the branches
in Bid, Lausanne and Geneva. Then |
leave for Rotterdam, the headquarters
of the Netherlands mission, for which
point have secured tickets already, via
basel Strasburg, Stuttgart, Monheam,
Frankfort ON the Main, elc
From Holland | go to England to
finish up my labors in the British
mission. Then, after another visit to
Norway, to finish my laburs there, |
trust shall be permitted to return home
once more, Please remember me to
the presidency, to the members OF your
own quorum, and to your associates at
the Historian's Office.
Your Brother and co-laborer,
ANDREW JENsoN