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8. SWEDES IN U.S.A. 397
8. THE TASK NEARLY COMPLETED. ATTEMPT TO DO
JUSTICE TO THE DEPARTED WHOM WE HOPE TO MEET
IN A NEW LIFE. DUTIES THAT REMAIN. SPECIAL
SUBJECT: THE SWEDES IN U.S.A. ATTRACTION
OF THE NORTHERN STATES OF THE MIDDLE WEST.
WHAT U.S.A. OWES TO SWEDEN. MODERN
SETTLEMENT BEGINS WITH UNONIUS (1841).
BISHOP WHITEHOUSE, OF ILLINOIS (1851 1875):
HIS ACTS OF INTER-COMMUNION: (l) ADMITS BRED-
BERG ; (2) INTERCOURSE WITH R.EUTERDAHL ; (3)
ORDAINS MR. ALMQUIST. BISHOP WHIPPLE, OF
MINNESOTA (1859 ONWARDS). THE "
AUGUSTANA
SYNOD": ESEJORN, HASSELQUIST, NORELIUS.
ITS GREAT WT
ORK IN FIFTY YEARS. VlSIT TO ROCK
ISLAND, IQTH OCTOBER, 1910. QUESTIONS BEFORE
IT :
LANGUAGE, SECRET SOCIETIES, ORGANIZATION.
THE "
MISSION COVENANT "
: WORK OF TWENTY-
FIVE YEARS. Vl SIT TO NORTH PARK COLLEGE,
CHICAGO. OTHER BODIES. ACTION OF THE
SWEDISH BISHOPS AND THE LAMBETH CONFERENCE
NO STRANGE THING.
I have now come to the conclusion of the main portion of
the task which I had so audaciously undertaken. I have
sketched in rough outline the course of Church history in
Sweden from the earliest dim traces of religious life in the
Stone Age to our own times. I have attempted to indi
cate the influence and to draw the characters of a certain
number of the remarkable men and women who have en
riched and ennobled the annals of the country. In doing so
I have naturally felt the responsibility which a Christian
must acknowledge when he remembers our Lord s words to
the Sadducees, explaining the divine title
"
God of Abra
ham, Isaac and Jacob."
"
God is not the God of the dead,
but of the living,"
and the persons whose lives we record
in our Church histories are living brothers and sisters in
Christ, whose fellowship will, we trust, one day be ours in
actual personal intercourse. I remember Dean Stanley,
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