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402 VIII, THE MODERN PERIOD (A.D. 18121910).
who had come over in 1849, and helped to found the colony
at Andover, Illinois. Her gift was sufficient to build a
church there, and also a frame church at Moline, adjacent
to Rock Island, in the same State.
Work of Bishops Whitehouse and Whipple.
These gifts were made in 1851, the year in which Bishop
Henry John Whitehouse, the second Bishop of Illinois,
became co-adjutor to Bishop Chase (2oth November). His
episcopate continued till his death, 2oth August, 1874.
Bishop Whitehouse was a remarkable man, and did more
than any other bishop of this period, except Bishop
Whipple of Minnesota, to maintain and develop those rela
tions of inter-communion with the Swedish settlers which
had begun in Wilmington and Philadelphia. In these
acts of inter-communion Bishop Whitehouse was only con
tinuing the policy of Bishops Henry Compton, of London,
and Svedberg, of Skara, to which I have already referred,
and, in more recent years, that of Bishop Charles James
Blomfield (1828 1857), to which we may add that of
Bishop Archibald Campbell Tait, afterwards Archbishop
of Canterbury. In 1837 Bishop Blomfield asked Bishop
Wingard, of Goteborg, to confirm for him some children of
members of our Church. Bishop Wingard obtained per
mission from the king, Karl XIV., to do so, using the
Swedish ritual, but adding to it
"
the laying on of hands
considered essential in England."
28
Unfortunately no life of Bishop Whitehouse has been
published, but three points in his Swedish work are known
and must be recorded here. The first is his admission of
the Rev. Jacob Bredberg, a Swedish priest, who was
ordained in that country in 1832, to be Rector of St.
28
See Sveriges Kyrkolag af 1686, ed. A. J. Ryde"n, p. 14,
Goteborg, 1864. The king s letter given in full in Anjou s
Reformation, E. T., p. 641 and in an article in the Church
Quarterly Review (Vol. 70, pp. 270-1) for July, 1910, Reunion
and the Churches of Scandinavia, by Rev. G. C. Richards,
Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford,
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