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8. SWEDES IN U.S.A. 399
people in their best years, and what Sweden has thereby
lost and this country has gained may readily be, in some
degree, apprehended.
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The United States owes very much to its Swedish immi
grants and settlers. The Swedes in this country, who now
number, perhaps, two millions, are everywhere recognized
as a peaceable, industrious, capable, honest and religious
element, of great value to its development. The debt
began, as we have already seen, in connection with the
settlements at Wilmington and Philadelphia in the reign
of Gustavus Adolphus. Two traditions were impressed
upon them, both of great value fair treatment of the
Indians, and friendship with England and the English
Church.24
Relation between the Swedish Church and the Episcopal
Church of U.S.A.
It was, therefore, quite in the natural order of things that,
when fresh ministers were no longer supplied from Sweden,
the congregations of Delaware and Pennsylvania should
unite themselves permanently with the American Episcopal
Church.
So also when the Swedes begun again to enter the
country as settlers from the year 1841 onwards, and to
arrive in parties of colonists, it was natural that the same
policy should be pursued both by the Church of Sweden
and the Church in this country. I shall proceed to give
some instances of this policy which especially concern the
diocese of Illinois, in the see city of which it is my happi
ness to be invited to lecture.
In the early part of the last century the few Swedes who
23
See below, Appendix B, at the end, p. 449.
24
See above, Lecture VI., Section 8, p. 287-8, and cp. A. E.
Strand : Hist, of Sw. Americans in Minnesota, i., p. 60, 1910,
and Lars P. Nelson : What has Sweden done for the United
States? p. n, 1903.
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