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406 VIII. THE MODERN PERIOD (A.D. 18121910).
Presbyters of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United
States of North America for the reception of such spiritual
and bodily care as he (or she) may desire, and as may be
found needful for him (or her).
N.N., the 18 ,
N.N.,
Minister in N.N. Church.
This important document is dated 22nd June, 1866, and
signed by H. Reuterdahl on behalf of the estate of the
clergy, and countersigned S. H. Almquist.
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It was natural to suppose from Bishop Whitehouse s
language, that the form of this document expressed all
that he desired, and I venture to ask my Swedish hearers,
especially any that belong to the Augustana Synod, to
observe that the certificate is only for use
"
where access to
a Swedish Evangelical-Lutheran congregation is want
ing."
The idea is clearly that of such an alliance, or
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fellowship," as he calls it, as is now contemplated by
some of us, a co-operation intended to supplement other
natural opportunities of Christian fellowship, not an
attempt to substitute membership of the Episcopal Church
for membership of one more like the National Church of
Sweden.
It is difficult, of course, to draw the line in practice in
such things, but it is hard to think that any Swedish clergy
who may warn their compatriots isolated from their
brethren to have nothing to do with the Episcopal Church
can have realized either the true conditions of religious life
in this country, or the policy of their own national Church
in past days.
A third act of Bishop Whitehouse s, in 1869 1870,
which deserves to be recorded, is his ordination of the
veteran, P. A. Almquist, who is still living at Minneapolis,
and with whom I have recently had some delightful inter
course, under commission from the same Archbishop
Reuterdahl.
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The original is given by Unonius :
Bihang, pp. 8-9, Stkh.,
1896.
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