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434 VIII. THE MODERN PERIOD (A.D. 18121910).
student movement at Upsala. Its watchword is
"
Sveriges
Folk ett Guds Folk," and a spirited fortnightly journal
called Vdr Lbsen ("
our watchword ")
has been published
this year as the organ of the movement. Its editor is Mr.
Bjorkqvist, and it has already a circulation of 3,000 copies.
It aims at making the national Church the great instrument
of national religion, and to create enthusiasm for this idea.
It desires also that it should take its part in the task set
before the universal Church. The recent salutary action
of this Church Volunteer Corps has shown itself not only
in the Huskvarna conferences, but in the lectures on the
Church and Church history which it has arranged. These
lectures were given this year at the Public School or College
of Lundsberg in the diocese of Carlstad, a school after the
English type, of course during the school holidays, and
attended by about 150 persons, men and women. Similar
lectures have been promoted by the student association of
Lund.
The students have also organized
"
crusades
"
against
infidelity, which they have prosecuted with great
enthusiasm during their vacations. In the spring of
this year 800 parishes were visited at the request of the
clergy.
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About 400 students, or one-eighth of the whole
of Swedish University students, are members of these
associations. They have their battle song in a fine hymn,
Fadernas Kyrka i
Sveriges land, written by Bishop
Eklund of Carlstad, the leader of this work among the
bishops, which is sung to a catching tune by Docent G.
Aulen, of Upsala, who has himself done much to popularize
a knowledge of modern Swedish Church history.
Next to this I may mention the foundation at the
Kyrko-mote of last year (1909) of the Svenska Kyrkans
Diakoni-styrelse, which is due to the energy of Bishop
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A bright account of the experiences of some of the
4
crusaders" of 1909 is given by Pastor Axel Lutteman in
Julbok for Wasteras Stift, 1909, pp. 126-144, which particularly
describes their discussions with "young Socialists" in
Bergslagen in Southern Dalarne.
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