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xii PREFACE.
The conference subsequently passed the following
resolution, No. 74:
This conference heartily thanks the Archbishop of
Upsala for his letter of friendly greeting, and for sending
his honoured colleague, the Bishop of Kalmar, to confer
with its members on the question of the establishment of an
alliance of some sort between the Swedish and Anglican
Churches. The conference respectfully desired the Arch
bishop of Canterbury to appoint a Commission to corre
spond further with the Swedish Church through the
Archbishop of Upsala on the possibility and conditions of
such an alliance."
This Commission was appointed in March, 1909, and
consisted of the following persons : The Bishop of Win
chester (Dr. Herbert Ryle), chairman; the Bishop of
London (Dr. Arthur Foley Winnington-Ingram), the
Bishop of Salisbury, the Master of Pembroke College,
Cambridge (Dr. Arthur James Mason), Vice-Chancellor of
the University and Canon of Canterbury, and Canon
Edward Russell Bernard, Chancellor of Salisbury Cathe
dral, from England, and the Bishop of Marquette (Dr. G.
Mott Williams) from U.S.A.
Its members were invited by the Archbishop of Upsala
to meet him in his cathedral city in the autumn. They
were all able to attend with the exception of the Bishop of
London, and had a most interesting three-days conference
on 2ist, 22nd, and 23rd September. On the Swedish
side were the Archbishop and the Bishop of Kalmar, the
Provost or Dean, Dr. Herman Lundstrom, the well-known
Church historian, editor of the Kyrkohistorisk Arsskrift;
Di. Nathan Soderblom, Professor of Comparative Re
ligion; Dr. J. O. Quensel, the learned liturgiologist; Dr.
Waldemar Rudin, a much-loved pastor and preacher; Dr.
J. E. Berggren, formerly Provost, author, amongst other
works, of Olaus Petris Reformatoriska Grundtankar; Dr.
Erik Stave, an authority on the Swedish versions of the
Bible; Dr. J. A. Kolmodin, Professor of Exegesis, one of
the leaders of the
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Evangeliska Fosterlands Stiftelse/ an
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