| 121 protection from the American consul there. His name is Elvin. I hoped it would have been one of our beloved brothers Elvin from Nebraska City; then I would have had one friend to greet; but no, he was not that kind of a man. He told me there was no religious liberty in Sweden, but the laws were very strict; and if I went and preached against the law, I must be punished according to the law, and he could give me no protection; but if I did not do anything against the law, and then was hurt, I should be protected as an American citizen. (Good advice.) I stayed there some over one week. I was in the palace to seek the king; but he was in Norway at the time, so I did not calculate to hold meetings in Sweden; but shall try to find as many of the friends of the truth as I possibly can, to converse, distribute tracts, and do all I can in Sweden, till about the first of January; then I go to Jutland, Denmark, and shall, with Bro. Hansen, do all I can there. I do not know if I go to Norway at all, as the law is yet harder there than in Sweden. I shall now have to sit down to work to get me an overcoat and some warm clothing; for it is now very cold here. I shall soon send you a few tracts, and also a little book called the "Voice from the Land of Zion." It is a history of the church, something like the one of Lucy Smith's. . . . My health is poor, I caught a bad cold coming from Stockholm. We were five days on the sea, and it was very windy and cold, so when I came to Malmö, I was so poorly that I could not walk up to my sister's in the city; but must take lodging in the first lodging-house I found on the harbor.-The Saints, Herald, vol. 22, pp. 725, 726.
December 12, 1875, Elder R. J. Anthony joined Elder J. H. Hansen in Graves County, Kentucky, and looked after the interests of the work in Western Kentucky and Western Tennessee, while Elder Hansen made an extended missionary trip through Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida, making the entire tour, going and returning, on horseback. He stopped in Winston County, Mississippi, on his way south, where he baptized several and organized a branch; visited all the branches in Southern Alabama and Western Florida, laboring in connection with local elders baptizing many.
December 14, 1875, Elder A. H. Smith arrived home, Nauvoo, Illinois, from California, having stopped eight days at Reno, Nevada, where he preached twice.
The year's close found the ministry active and hopeful. A large degree of success had attended their labors during the year. In the year 1875 there was a volume of poems by Elder David H. Smith published at the Herald Office, entitled "Hesperis."
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