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Local civil leaders issued proclamations prohibiting individuals from holding religious meetings in their houses under a penalty of a fine of fifty “riksdaler. Individuals were arrested and fines given also for lodging non-Lutheran missionaries and not reporting missionary baptisms and activities. Non-Lutheran Missionaries, who traveled without purse or script, were charged as being vagrants and were deported. | Local civil leaders issued proclamations prohibiting individuals from holding religious meetings in their houses under a penalty of a fine of fifty “riksdaler. Individuals were arrested and fines given also for lodging non-Lutheran missionaries and not reporting missionary baptisms and activities. Non-Lutheran Missionaries, who traveled without purse or script, were charged as being vagrants and were deported. | ||
==Early years of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Sweden== | |||
The L.D.S. Historian Andrew Jenson writes in his book about this time (1855). “The persecutions in Sweden were severe at that time. The brethren were continually hunted by the police, and the citizens who gladly and willing would have treated the brethren with hospitality and kindness, dared not do so in many instances, owing to the stringent laws which existed and the determination on the part of some of the officials to enforce them. The Lutheran clergy had the laws of Sweden practically at their command, and in order to bring trouble upon the brethren, some of the statutes which had been laid dormant for ages were brought to bear upon the case of the missionaries. Thus many of the brethren were arrested and transported from one place to another, while some were fined and imprisoned. Others beaten unmercifully. Some arrested and imprisoned on a bread and water diet. In Malmö it happened frequently that some of the brethren were knocked down in the streets, while others were stoned and had their clothing torn to pieces by mobs who understood that the Mormons had no rights”. (HSM page 104.)<br> | The L.D.S. Historian Andrew Jenson writes in his book about this time (1855). “The persecutions in Sweden were severe at that time. The brethren were continually hunted by the police, and the citizens who gladly and willing would have treated the brethren with hospitality and kindness, dared not do so in many instances, owing to the stringent laws which existed and the determination on the part of some of the officials to enforce them. The Lutheran clergy had the laws of Sweden practically at their command, and in order to bring trouble upon the brethren, some of the statutes which had been laid dormant for ages were brought to bear upon the case of the missionaries. Thus many of the brethren were arrested and transported from one place to another, while some were fined and imprisoned. Others beaten unmercifully. Some arrested and imprisoned on a bread and water diet. In Malmö it happened frequently that some of the brethren were knocked down in the streets, while others were stoned and had their clothing torn to pieces by mobs who understood that the Mormons had no rights”. (HSM page 104.)<br> | ||