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8. SWEDES IN U.S.A. 413
a body which deserves to be better known by our clergy,
and to be treated with friendliness and respect.
There is also a Swedish Evangelical Free Church with
some 6,952 communicants, which clings, I believe, to the
baptism of adults, and has its Theological School at
Minneapolis. And there is a Swedish Methodist Church,
which has no very large number of members, but is of good
standing and influence.
Conclusion.
I have, I think, made it clear that neither the visit of the
Bishop of Kalmar, who bore a letter from the Archbishop
of Upsala to the Lambeth Conference of 1908 and himself
addressed the conference, nor the action of the 240 bishops
of the Anglican Communion, which was based upon it, is
a strange event. They were rather part of a series of move
ments towards an alliance between our respective Churches,
which have their origin far back in history, and have from
time to time, though somewhat intermittently, come into
prominence. The increased means of locomotion and
correspondence which now exist, and the juxtaposition and
intercourse of our countrymen in many lands, and particu
larly in our foreign missions, make such an alliance as is in
contemplation much more natural and opportune than it
ever has been before. It will be a great joy to me if I have
in any way contributed to this result, either by personal
visits and correspondence, or by the delivering and
publication of these lectures.
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