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6. THE LUND MOVEMENT. 385
Considering that most of this activity belongs to the
last fifty years, the result is considerable. It is obvious
that an alliance between our Church and that of Sweden
might be very beneficial to both, especially in South Africa
and India, and that the seamen s missions of both
churches might be made use of by the mariners of both
countries wherever there was no station belonging to their
own people. The number of Scandinavians in our own
mercantile marine is great, and they are much valued.
6. DIFFERENT CHARACTER OF THE UNIVERSITIES. E.
G. BRING S EXPERIENCES AT BOTH, ABOUT 1832 A.D.
THE THEOLOGICAL FACULTY AT LUND. THOMANDER
AND REUTERDAHL. THEIR SUCCESSORS AND
THE Swedish Church Times FROM 1855. E. G.
BRING AND A. N. SUNDBERG COMPARED. BISHOP
BlLLING S ACCOUNT OF THE MAIN PRINCIPLES OF
SWEDISH HIGH CHURCHMEN. MOVEMENT AT
UPSALA. DR. SODERBLOM S ADDRESS TO
STUDENTS. THE LUND PROFESSORS BECOME
BISHOPS: BRING OF LINKOPING (1861 1884);
SUNDBERG OF CARLSTAD (1864) AND ARCHBISHOP
(1870 1900); FLENSBURG OF LUND (1865 1897).
It is difficult for a foreigner to estimate and compare the
debt which Sweden owes to its two universities the older
and larger at Upsala, with 1,800 white-capped students,
men and women, and the smaller at Lund, with some 800.
There is, of course, greater possibility of variety of life at
Upsala, both from its own resources in the larger number
of professors and students, and the greater collections of
books and apparatus, and from its nearness to the capital
and consequent closer participation in much that goes on
there. In both the students are classified as belonging to
thirteen so-called
"
nations," each incorporating the young
people from one or more of the twenty-four provinces or
"
Ian
"
into which the kingdom is divided. But while
each of these nations has its own club house, sometimes a
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