Improvement Era, 1909 by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Religion

Messages From the Missions.

Elder Andrew Jenson, president of the Scandinavian mission, writes from Aalborg, Denmark, April 14, where he was attending conference in the new building of the Latter-day Saints in that city, a cut of which is presented herewith. He says that the elders in that mission are baptizing quite a number of converts and that they are hopeful for the future. President Jenson appears to be enjoying his labors very much and states that the elders in that mission read the ERA with great interest. He promises an illustrated article shortly for our magazine.

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President John C. Larson, Jr., of the Manchester conference, in a letter dated Hyde, Cheshire, England, April 16, says: "I enclose a brief account of a new meetinghouse we have been building in the city of Oldham. We have a good, thrifty branch of the Church there, with a good Sunday school and Mutual Improvement Association doing active work the year around. They were meeting in a hired hall, neither a fit place to worship the Lord in nor a desirable locality, so the elders and Saints decided to work to get a meeting house of their own. To this end they began holding socials and parties to raise money, and were very successful, for in less than a year they had raised over thirty pounds. A mission room was offered for sale very cheap which they very much wanted, but didn't have enough money to buy, so they applied to President Penrose for aid. He helped them by securing from the First Presidency of the Church forty pounds, the purchase price, so the building was purchased. Four elders started to work removing the building to the acquired site in another part of the city. Extra elders were called to work from time to time until all had helped. It elicited quite a comment to have the elders in working clothes bustling about early and late digging trenches, wheeling cement, laying brick, carrying timber from the lumber yard to save expense, putting up the frame work, and finally finishing and painting the house. First the people laughed at us, but before it was finished, they began to say that the "Mormon" preachers were all right, and treated us very nicely, especially those with whom we had business. They loaned us scaffolding, timber and tools, thus saving us this expense. One lady supplied us with water which saved us tbe cost of piping water to the building. Our greatest obstacle was getting a satisfactory lease for the land, but that battle was fought and won by President Penrose. We reluctantly applied to him for more money-reluctantly because he had already given us more than we asked for. He responded with the needed fifteen pounds thus enabling us to finish the building. On the 27th of March the Saints gave a very successful and pleasant party, both socially and financially. On the 28th we held three meetings attended by many people and by President and Sister Penrose, the conference president and twenty-two traveling elders.

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