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mutual affection and self-improvement which may grow
from such knowledge. This object suggests a treatment of
the subject which will differ somewhat from that which
would be proper in a course of University lectures. A
basis of knowledge must be taken for granted, or, at any
rate, an interest which can readily be turned into
knowledge; but, above all, a basis of common feeling. I shall
venture to count on my hearers sympathy as fellow-workers
in the cause of unity and fellowship. The consciousness
of this sympathy will enable me sometimes to adopt a
lighter and more familiar tone in addressing them than a
purely scientific treatment might seem to demand, while
at the same time I shall not forget our deep agreement on
the tremendous truths of the Gospel and in the way of
salvation opened to us by the Holy Spirit in the Church of
Christ. Church history is sacred ground, and those who
tread it must be ever looking onwards and upwards. We
are handling the eternal truths and watching the
operation of the unseen laws of God’s kingdom. These two
thoughts then—our intimate brotherly relation as
Christians and our agreement on the most serious
concerns of the soul—will be constantly present to us, I hope,
during the hours which we are allowed to spend together
in this great western city of the new world so far removed
both from England and Sweden, but equally near to our
divine Master.

§ 2. The Country and its Inhabitants. Natural
Features of the Country
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It will be convenient to preface our studies of the history
of the Church with a short sketch of the country and its
inhabitants, and a few words on the ancient religion which
was displaced by Christianity, and on the organization of
society in heathen times. The name of Sweden is now
given to the eastern and southern part of the great
peninsula which runs from north to south between the North
Atlantic Ocean and the Baltic Sea. It has a very long

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