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8. SWEDES IN U.S.A. BISHOP WHITEHOUSE. 405
The second remarkable act of Bishop Whitehouse s was
his journey to Sweden in the winter of 1865, when he visited
the English congregations in Denmark, Norway and
Sweden, under commission from Bishop Archibald Camp
bell Tait, of London. This visit was marked by the estab
lishment of very close personal relations between himself
and Archbishop Reuterdahl, of which he thus writes in his
address to the diocese in 1866 :
"At Stockholm I was favoured by affectionate intercourse
with the venerable Swedish Church. The presence there of
many of the bishops in attendance on the Diet, exercising for
the last time the important legislative functions which they have
enjoyed for 600 years, afforded me an opportunity which could
only thus occur. The special courtesy and Christian sympathy
of His Grace the Archbishop of Upsala, assisting at our ser
vices, partaking at our altar, and folding me in many relations
of confidence and love the correspondent action of several of
the bishops the legislative action in the pastoral letter com
mending their emigrant members to our bishops and clergy,
have enlarged the personal intercourse into a real fellowship
between the Church of Sweden and our own in the United
States."
32
The "
Pastoral Letter
"
here referred to was decreed by
the estate of clergy at the last meeting of the Riksdag, of
which I have already spoken. Clergy were directed to use
it when any of their parishioners emigrated to U.S.A. It
runs as follows :
Ministerial Certificate (Attest). That N.N., belonging to
N.N. Church (forsamling) in N.N. diocese in the Kingdom of
Sweden, who now intends to emigrate to the United States in
North America, receives herewith the following certificate :
He (or she) was born the 18 ,
is
confirmed, etc. In case that he (or she) shall come to settle
in a place, where access to a Swedish Evangelical-Lutheran
congregation (menighet) is wanting, he (or she) is recom
mended to the Right Reverend Lord Bishops and Reverend
32
Journal of 29th Annual Convention, p. 123, 1866: Bishop Whitehouse had
with him as his chaplain an Englishman, Dr. F. S. May, who laboured
long and vigorously in the same cause, as a corresponding member of the
"Anglo-Continental Society," now the "
Anglican and Foreign Church
Society," of which I have the honour to be president. Cp. Journal of the
30th Convention, pp. 41 foil. 1867.
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