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384 VIII. THE MODERN PERIOD (A.D. 18121910).
gelical National Institute
"
(Evangeliska Fosterlands-
stiftelse), a society founded in 1856 for work by lay evan
gelists at home, which remains within the Church, but
stands in a free relation to it. In 1861 it took up the work
of heathen missions, and in 1862 it founded a missionary
college under the direction of Dr. W. Rudin, the much
loved and honoured Upsala professor, at Johannelund,
near Stockholm. Its stations are found in Northern East
Africa, more particularly in the Italian
"
Colonia
Erythraea," Abyssinia, and the neighbouring regions,
where it has fifteen Swedish and four native priests. It
works also in the
"
central provinces
"
of India, with seven
teen Swedish priests. It has also a seamen s mission, with
stations at Liibeck, Hamburg and Bremerhaven, Grimsby
and Liverpool, at Marseilles, at Boston U.S.A., and
Melbourne in Australia. The income of the society has
grown from 383,317 kr. in 1900 to 597,509 kr. in 1909. It
has ninety-seven European and 204 native agents, and
twenty-three stations.
In addition to this, besides the Free Church work of
the Waldenstromians, which I have already mentioned,
there is the
"
Swedish Mission in China," which works in
concert with the English "China Inland Mission,
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