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354 VII. TIME OF FREEDOM AND NEOLOGY.
Swedish chapters. There is also a general council, which
meets every ten years, the first being held in i876.
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The
experience of the disestablished Church of Finland may,
some day, be valuable to the Mother Church of Sweden.
7. UNFORTUNATE REVISION OF THE PRAYER BOOK AND
CATECHISM IN THE TIME OF NEOLOGY (1772 l8l8).
ARCHBISHOPS UNO VON TROIL (1746 1803) AND
J. A. LINDBLOM (1746 1818). THE REVISED
PRAYER BOOK ISSUED IN 1811. A CONFIRMATION
SERVICE PRESCRIBED. ITS CHARACTER. NEW FORM
OF 1894. UNFORTUNATE CHANGE IN THE ORDINA
TION OF PRIESTS. IMPROVEMENT IN 1894. FORMS
OF CONFIRMATION IN U.S.A.
It was a great misfortune for Sweden that the self-
importance of the period of neology and the bad
taste which accompanied it led at this time to a re
vision of the Prayer Book and Catechism. For in it
taste, liturgical knowledge and Church feeling were all
at a low ebb. This revision was carried out under
the direction and with the imprimatur of two arch
bishops, first of the learned historian, Uno von Troil, and
then Jacob Axelsson Lindblom, the stately and popular
Bishop of Linkoping, afterwards archbishop (1805 1819).
The Prayer Book was altered, notwithstanding the pro
test of the pious and influential Upsala professor, Samuel
Odman, who pointed out the danger of tampering with
forms venerable by their antiquity. The revised Prayer
Book, which had been in preparation since 1793, was,
however, issued with royal sanction in 1811. It had one
improvement, namely, the introduction of a service for the
first communion for young people, which was regularly
known by the name of confirmation. This form did not ad
here so closely to tradition as some of those which had been
practically, though not compulsorily, in use in the seven-
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E. Bergroth : Finska Kyrkans Historia, pp. 270-1.
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