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Source: Church History Vol. 4 Chapter 6 Page: 105 (~1875)

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105 its onward progress. I have seen and heard the schemes of men tried and examined. I have seen the efforts of the powers of darkness to destroy, by seeking to corrupt the noblest minds; and I can testify before God and men that no base scheme, nor any stratagem of the Arch Enemy, has been able to sway those councils nor fascinate the minds of God's anointed into the adoption of any measure that would crash or injure in the least the very least of God's little ones, much less to betray the church of God into the hands of the enemy.-The Saints' Herald, vol. 22, p. 379.

Early in May, 1875, Elder J. R. Lambert, while on his way from his home in Woodbine, Iowa, to Southern Indiana, stopped in Green County, Iowa, and held a debate with a Reverend A. Wilson, of the Church of God.

May 16,1875, Elders Magnus Fyrando and H. N. Hansen arrived at Copenhagen, Denmark. Elder Fyrando visited Sweden, while Elder Hansen visited the place of his birth in the country. Meeting again in Copenhagen they made a fruitless effort to find an opening. Then Elder Fyrando went again to Sweden, while Elder Hansen sought and obtained employment at manual labor in Copenhagen. While thus employed he visited among the Brighamites and awakened an interest among them and finally procured the use of a hall, and wrote for Elder Fyrando, who was visiting the churches in Sweden.

They again met in Copenhagen and opened their work, holding their first public meeting on July 18, 1875, having an audience of about thirty.

Early in June, or the last of May, a debate was held in Stark County, Indiana, between Elder C. W. Prettyman and a Disciple preacher.

On June 10 President Joseph Smith left Plano, Illinois, for an extended missionary trip in the East, returning August 4. During his trip he visited and labored in Boston, Fall River, and Dennisport, Massachusetts; Jonesport, Machias, Little Kenebec, Mason's Bay, Indian River, Ram Island, Deer Isle, and Addison's Point, Maine; Grand Manan, New Brunswick; Providence, Rhode Island, and Kirtland, Ohio.

The Herald for June 15, 1875, announced the arrival of Elder J. C. Clapp in Oregon, his field of labor.

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