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ORIGIN OF THE BOOK. xiii
evangelical society for carrying on both Home and Foreign
Missions; Dr. Carl Roland Martin, Assistant Professor of
Practical Divinity, author of Sveriges Forsta Svenska
Massa-, Dr. E. Billing, Professor of Dogmatic Theology,
son of the Bishop of Lund; and Dr. Soderberg, Chancellor
of the Cathedral. The only layman present was the well-
known historian, Dr. Harald Hjarne, Professor of Modern
History, a member of the Swedish Academy.
Some account of this conference was given in the London
Guardian, 2Oth October, 1909, pp. 1668-9, in an article
headed
"
The Conference at Upsala," which was written
by Dr. Mason.
Since then a committee has been appointed in Sweden to
correspond with ours, consisting at first of the Archbishop,
Bishop H. W. Tottie of Kalmar, Bishop Otto Ahnfelt of
Linkoping, Provost H. Lundstrom and Dr. N. Soderblom.
Bishop Ahnfelt, having unfortunately died in the spring of
this year (1910), Dr. Gottfrid Billing, Bishop of Lund, one
of the most important personages in the Church of Sweden,
has been appointed to take his place. Neither committee,
however, has yet reported, though many letters have
passed, and important communications have been received.
My own published contribution to this subject hitherto
is contained in a little volume of diocesan addresses de
livered in 1909, called Unity and Fellowship (S.P.C.K.,
1910). It was an address to a conference of the Dean,
Archdeacons, and Rural Deans, of the diocese of Salisbury,
delivered 2nd November, 1909, and consisted of a slight
sketch of the visit of the Commission, and of the history
and organization of the Church of Sweden.
My interest in the work in which we are engaged led,
however, to my receiving an invitation from the trustees of
the Western Theological Seminary, dated loth December,
1909, to deliver the Hale Lectures on the foundation of my
old friend, Bishop Hale of Cairo, on the Mississippi,
Bishop Coadjutor of Springrield, the subject chosen being
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The National Church of Sweden." This invitation,
which fell in with my own inclination to go more deeply into
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