The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-06-13
Scandinavians Celebrating In
PRODUCTION of Everlasting
Gospel Into Northland.
SIXTY YEARS AGO APOSTLE
SNOW CARRIED MESSAGE
Elder Edward H. Anderson Tells
Story to Norsemen at the
Tabernacle.

The services at tho tabernacle Sunday
afternoon were virtually n continuation
OF the diamond jubilee of the iniroduc-
ton OF the everlasting gospel into
Scandinavia by Apostle Erastus Snow
June II. 1850. The main floor Of the
big building was crowded with dcvotees
of Viking origin to the Mormon re-
ligIop.
Elder e II. Anderson was the princI-
pal speaker. He told OF the landing of
Apostle Erastus Snow at Copenhagen
sixty years ago, "haHinS The message OF
the latter days TO the Israel Of these
Apostle Snow. said Elder Anderson. TO
have the privilege of Introducing the gos-
pei to these people. Apostle Snow was
only 50 years old when he went on that
mission. He was born in Vermont in
1913, and came TO Utah with the pio-
neers, Snow was made an apostle in
lSi9: and with him were chosen Charles
c. Rich, the late President Lorenzo
Snow and Franklin u Richards.
Apostle Snow lived in the old fort mere
In 1852, said the speaker and II Was
then that the saints began to make their
stakes and wards. Afterwards the apos-
lie built a home for his family, said the
older. One part OF the palatial resi-
dcnce was adobe, the other was built of
logs, and in the center or between the
two, there was erected n bowery SC that
the family could have open place in
which TO eat and enjoy itself In .he sum-
ner months. In those early days. Elder
sHOeISOn SAID, wagon boxes served as
beds, and the only settlements at that
time IN this domain extended as far
south as Provo and as far north as Og-
den.
Snow Goes on Mission.
In October, 1Si9, Apostle Snow was
called on mission 60 90 TO Denmark.
Al the same time the late President Lo-
ren2o Snow was sent to Italy; John y.
Taylor to France, and Franklin D. Rich
ards to England. The company which
.tpa.. .f.f,
consisted of twelve wagons, fortytwo
horses and mules, one carriage and
thirty-two men. Elder Anderson told of
the many vicissitudcs the party under
went until It got TO the Missouri river.
When the members reached the river,
said he, they found II n mass of mush
they could not cross it-'but the
the brethren knelt down and prayed that
1T be congealcd and In one day the ice
became so solidly frozen that they were
able 20 cross. A few hours after they
crossed. a thaw set in. and after that
they could not have crossed it for weeks
They assigned this miraculous Incident
to the power of God"
How Swedes Grew in Number.
The first baptism which Apostle Snow
made In Denmark WAS on August T.
1850. on December 10 the first branch
of the Mormon church was organized
10 elders laborIng i'm Scandinavia. and
since the introduction OF the gospel in
those lands there have been $500 con-
ycrts in Denmark, 1000 in Norway and
1900 in Sweden. and about 81, 600 have
emigrated TO this land.
Apostle Heber ]. Grant made a short
address He said That while he was in
Norway they used To go TO the top OF
any mountain they could find and sing
we Thank Thee. Cod for a Prophet -
Latter-day Saints. said he were accused
OF all that is vie. wicked and corrupt
but he rejoiced in the knowledge that
Notwithstanding their eputation-becuuse
OF the lies Of their encmies-the reputa-
ton OF the Lattcr-day Saints was above
reproach.