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5. FOREIGN MISSIONS. 383
Swedish Church maintained missionary work on its own
account.
The first missionary society
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in the Swedish Church
began its work in 1835, in connection, however, with other
foreign societies. The first independent society was that
of Lund, founded ten years later, in order to work in China ;
but this, too, had soon to ally itself with another, that of
Leipzig. It was not till after the first meeting of the
Representative Church Council, in 1868, that the Swedish
Church took up the project of an official mission to the
heathen. As a result of the second meeting, in 1873, a
royal letter was issued in 1874, appointing the archbishop
ex-ofjicio y and six members of the council chosen by itself
to act as the governing body of the
"
Svenska Kyrkans
missionstyrelse." A royal letter had been already issued
earlier in the year, appointing an annual collection with
missionary sermon on a particular day to be made in every
church throughout the country.
The main work of this society lies in South Africa,
especially in Natal, Zululand and Rhodesia, where it has
nine Swedish priests and one African, besides ladies and
other subordinate native workers. It also has work in
South India in connection with the Leipzig Society at
Madura, and also in Ceylon at Colombo. In these
stations there are seven Swedish and two native priests.
Besides this, the society has an important seamen s mission
with stations at Copenhagen, Stettin, Kiel and Wismar,
London and Hartlepool, Calais and Dunkirk. This
CHurch society has made admirable progress in recent
years under its energetic secretary, or
"
missions direktor,
Pastor K. A. Ihrmark.
This official society does not, however, by any means
exhaust the missionary energies of the Swedish Church.
A larger amount of work is done by the earlier
"
Evan-
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There is a good short account of all Swedish mission work
in De Svenska Missionerna, 1904, utgifven af Uppsala kristliga
Studenten-forbund. See also P.R.E.*, 13, pp. 146, 183, 185.
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