. Rambles in colonial byways . nSwansons, Keens, Bensons, Kocks, andRambos, some of them mighty hunters whenthe deer came close up to the little settle-ment and nightly could be heard the cry ofpanthers or bark of wolves. At Passajunghwas the humble white-nut dwelling of Com-mander Sven Schute, whom Christina calledher brave and fearless lieutenant, and atManajungh on the Skorkihl there was astout fort of logs filled in with sand andstones. Descendants on the female side of thesefirst settlers are still to be found in the city,but Philadelphias only relic in stone andmortar of the men who were
. Rambles in colonial byways . nSwansons, Keens, Bensons, Kocks, andRambos, some of them mighty hunters whenthe deer came close up to the little settle-ment and nightly could be heard the cry ofpanthers or bark of wolves. At Passajunghwas the humble white-nut dwelling of Com-mander Sven Schute, whom Christina calledher brave and fearless lieutenant, and atManajungh on the Skorkihl there was astout fort of logs filled in with sand andstones. Descendants on the female side of thesefirst settlers are still to be found in the city,but Philadelphias only relic in stone andmortar of the men who were once lords ofall the land on which it was built is GloriaDei, better known as Old Swedes successive sovereign of Sweden, loyalto the favorite idea of Gustavus, kept af-fectionate watch over the tiny settlement onthe Delaware, and when the colonists begged that godly men might be sent to them toinstruct their children, and help themselvesto lead lives well pleasing to God, twoclergymen, Rudman and Bjork, were de-44. i>,y„-m^ M^^M^ OLD SWEDES CHURCH, PHILADELPHIA. RAMBLES IN COLONIAL BYWAYS spatched by Charles XII. in answer to theirprayer. These missionaries reached the col-ony in June, 1697, and were received, asthe ancient record states, with astonish-ment and tears of joy. Soon after theirarrival Gloria Dei was built in a fervor ofpious zeal, carpenters and masons givingtheir work, and the good pastor daily carry-ing the hod. When it was finished Swedes,Quakers, and Indians came to wonder at itsgrandeur, and it long remained the most im-portant structure in the little hamlet. Old Swedes holds its original site inSouthwark, banked in by the sunken gravesof its early worshippers. The main body ofthe building is unaltered to the present carvings inside, the bell, and the com-munion service were sent out from themotherland, given by the king to his faith-ful subjects in the far western wilderness;and from Sweden came also the chubby giltcherubs in the ch
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