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412 VIII. THE MODERN PERIOD (A.D. 18121910).
are still retained. I have shown the value of traditional or
historical episcopacy to Sweden itself in many pages of
these lectures, and I do not think any reasonable historian
will doubt it. I believe that episcopacy would be equally
valuable to the Augustana Synod in U.S.A. as a bond
of internal unity, a guarantee of faith, and an instrument of
equal and impartial discipline. Its introduction need not
weaken the synod s existing alliance. It would certainly
strengthen its ties with the Mother Country, and be a pro
tection against any supposed tendency to aggression on
the part of the American Episcopal Church, as well as a
link of fellowship with it.
The Mission Covenant and other bodies.
The next largest Swedish Church to the Augustana in
this country is the
"
Evangelical Mission Covenant,"
otherwise called, I believe, the Mission Friends, which has
its origin in the Waldenstromian movement in Sweden.
It differs, however, considerably from the native society.
It has adopted ordination on the Congregational plan it
has a Prayer Book partly in English, and it is not, I be
lieve, generally so lax on the doctrine of the Atonement as
in Sweden. I have to thank an unknown friend in
Minneapolis for two books which describes its history and
present position.
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The Bishop of Marquette and I were
mostly kindly received at North Park College, in the
suburb of Edgwater, Chicago, by President Hjerpe and
the other professors when we visited it on Wednesday last
(26th October, 1910). The Covenant has, I believe, about
23,000 communicants, and about 280 organizations, and
an ordained ministry of some 200 pastors. It is clearly
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Sv. Evang. Missions-forbundets i Amerika Arsberattelse,
1909-1910, Chicago, 1910, and Missions-forbundets Minneskrift,
1885-1910. The title of the Prayer Book is Pastoral Handbok,
utarbetad af Pastorerne E. G. Hjerpe, A. L. Anderson och A.
P. Nelson, utgiven, 1901. It may be obtained from the New
Eastern Weekly Publishing Co., 274, Main Street, Worcester,
Mass, (price i
dollars).
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