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xviii PREFACE.
POSTSCRIPT. I add a few lines to this preface after my
return from a two months absence and a six weeks tour in
U.S.A. from 2ist September to 2nd November during
which I have travelled some 4,500 miles by railroad,
although I have not gone beyond the Mississippi. My
halting places have been New York, Philadelphia, Wash
ington, New York (again), Long Island, Boston, Albany,
Cincinnati (Ohio), Sewanee and Nashville (Tennessee),
Chicago, Rock Island (Illinois), Minneapolis, Chicago
(for the lectures), Buffalo and New York. The lectures
were delivered in St. James Church, Chicago, on the six
nights from Monday, 24th October, to Saturday, 29th. In
delivery it was necessary to compress the first three into
one and to omit considerable portions of the rest. Those
who were good enough to attend will, therefore, find in
the book much which they did not hear. The last section
of the book has been written partly on shipboard and
partly since my return home.
In the latter part of my journey, as well as at Cincinnati,
I had the great advantage of the company of the Bishop of
Marquette. I have also to thank Dr. J. P. Billings, head
of the New York Public Library; Rev. G. Hammarskold,
of Yonkers; Dr. Tofteen, of Chicago, and Dr. J. N.
Lenker of Minneapolis (a recognized authority on Luther
and Lutheranism), for much help in regard to Swedish-
American literature and statistics. On igih October the
Bishop of Marquette and I were most hospitably welcomed
by Dr. Andreen and his colleagues at the Augustana
College, Rock Island. On the 26th we were with equal
kindness entertained by Dr. Hjerpe and his colleagues at
the North Park College of the
"
Mission Covenant
"
at
Chicago. At Minneapolis we had the pleasure of meeting
ex-Governor Lind and several Swedish professors of the
University. I must also express my particular thanks to
Vice-Consul Henry S. Henschen, who gave me the oppor
tunity of meeting a number of the leading Swedes of
Chicago at luncheon, and of speaking to them after it on
the 28th. I have embodied something of what I have thus
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