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6. THE LUND MOVEMENT. 389
These two able and popular men, in company with
Wilhelm Flensburg, inaugurated a Lund movement, as
we may call it, which was almost as important for Sweden
as the Oxford Movement some twenty years earlier had
been for England. Strange to say, Cornelius does not
mention it in his History.
In their hands the vague ideal of the glory and the beauty
of the Church which Reuterdahl in his youth had caught
up from Schleiermacher, passed into a clear and definite
conception, in which they were much aided by the new
Lutheranism of Germany. They also absorbed the higher
conception of the ministry to which Schartau had given
currency, and added much from their own studies of
ancient Church history. They not only set themselves
against open unbelief and materialism, and so-called un-
dogmatic Christianity, but against the separatist spirit,
which was now showing itself largely within as well as
outside the Church, and which had an able champion in
their own colleague, H. B. Hammar, editor of the Evan
gelical Church Friend, and head of the tract distributing
committee in Southern Sweden.
The Lund movement specially set itself to correct tract
distribution and Methodism.
The Evangelical National Institute for home missions
wr
as founded in 1856 by Hans Jakob Lundborg, who had
been much influenced by what he saw during a visit to
Scotland. It worked through
"
colporteurs
"
and tract
distribution, and promoted evangelistic addresses given by
laymen, who \vere desired first to obtain the leave of the
clergy. It wished to remain, and has remained within the
Church, like our
"
Church Army," but its principles at
first gave great offence to many of the clergy, who disliked
to see laymen intruding, as they thought, into their office.
They appealed against it to the fourteenth article of the
Augsburg Confession "That no man must teach publicly
in the Church or adminster the sacraments unless rightly
called."
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