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io. PRESENT CONDITION. 435
Lovgren of Vesteras. This institution is not to be
confounded v/ith the training house for deacons (Diakon-
anstatten), which also owes much to the same bishop.
The Diakoni-styrelse is intended to be a sort of
counterpart for home missions to the
"
Church Mission
ary Institution," which also owes its foundation to the
Kyrko-mote (1876). As far as I can understand it, the
Diakoni-styrelse will be something like our
"
Society for
Promoting Christian Knowledge," and be specially occu
pied with the diffusion of religious literature. The arch
bishop is the president. Its work, of course, lies in the
future. One of its designs is to publish a Swedish Church
Year Book, which will be of great value to Churchmen.
It will probably occupy itself very much with providing
the text books and hymn books which will be needed for
the Sunday School organization already determined upon
by the Allmdnna Svenska Prest foreningar (A.S.P.).
51
The committee of the Diakoni-styrelse are half priests,
half laymen*.
A somewhat earlier voluntary association (Svenska
Kyrko-forbundet) was started in 1909 by Regements-
Pastor Schroderheim of Stockholm and others, and it has
done good service by the publication of the series of tracts,
in which Bishop Ullman s charge is printed. Its object is
the spread of knowledge about the Church and Church
history, the introduction where possible of daily services,
improvements in liturgical matters, etc. The first number
is an attractively illustrated and pleasantly written com
parison of English and Swedish Church life recording
Pastor Schroderheim s very kindly impressions of two
visits to England in 1908 and 1909. This little book will,
I hope, do much to interpret what is good in English
Church life to Swedish readers.
Besides the permanent institutions I
may mention the
51
Pastor Gunnar Ekstrom, of Falun, has been a great pro
moter of Sunday Schools. See his Ar tiden inne for den
.Svenska Kyrkan ait pa sitt program upptaga Sondagsskolverk-
samhet? Vasteras, 1907.
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