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xiv PREFACE.
the history of a Church which appeared to be so like our
own, must be my excuse for my audacity in undertaking
such a task with so little of previous study. But, in the exe
cution of my design, the encouragement and help of friends
have not been wanting. I
may specially name the Bishop
of Kalmar, Dr. Soderblom and Chancellor Bernard, who
have most kindly read the proofs of these lectures, and
given me constant and brotherly assistance. Next to them
I must place Dr. Herman Lundstrom and Dr. Hjalmar
Holmquist, who have freely placed their great historical
learning at my disposal ;
Mr. K. B. Westman, to whom the
third lecture is much indebted ;
Dr. Quensel, who, like Dean
Lundstrom, and others, has aided me by the gift of valu
able books, as well as by letters. I owe also a great debt of
gratitude to Bishop G. Mott Williams for his valuable little
book, The Church of Sweden and the Anglican Com
munion (A. R. Mowbray and Co., 1910), which worthily
supplements the late Dr. A. Nicholson s Apostolical Suc
cession in the Church of Sweden (Rivingtons, 1880) and
its supplement Vindicice Arosienses (Griffith, Farran and
Co., 1887), both of which are now scarce.
I have done my best in the nine months during which
these lectures have been in preparation both to obtain the
necessary books and to find time to study them a study
which included the attempt to learn a new language. Dr.
Soderblom s counsel has been invaluable to me, especially
in the matter of books, and many of these to which reference
is made in the footnotes have been bought, borrowed or
received at his suggestion.
I cannot give a complete list of these books without need
lessly encumbering these prefatory pages, but I should
like to mention a few of them. In the first place I wish to
record my sense of the great value of the Nordisk
Familjeboky of which, however, I
only have the first edi
tion (20 vols., 1876-1899). The Biographiskt Lexicon (23
+ 10 volumes, 1835 1907) is sometimes very useful, some
times disappointing. The fine illustrated volumes of the
Sveriges Historia .
(of which I have both editions), the
Sveriges Medellid of Hans Hildebrand (8 parts, 1885
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