Foreign-born Americans and their children; our duty and opportunity for God and country from the standpoint of the Episcopal church . nglish and Swedish Bishops, and on the extreme left our oicn Bishop Williams of Marquette, one of the greatest authorities on, the Scandinavian Churches catechism and other religious teaching-is always part of the curriculum. Infact, America is practically the onlyChristian country in the world wherereligion is not a definite part of theteaching in the public schools. The Scandinavians are a church-goingpeople. The Churches of Sweden, Nor-way and Denmark went th
Foreign-born Americans and their children; our duty and opportunity for God and country from the standpoint of the Episcopal church . nglish and Swedish Bishops, and on the extreme left our oicn Bishop Williams of Marquette, one of the greatest authorities on, the Scandinavian Churches catechism and other religious teaching-is always part of the curriculum. Infact, America is practically the onlyChristian country in the world wherereligion is not a definite part of theteaching in the public schools. The Scandinavians are a church-goingpeople. The Churches of Sweden, Nor-way and Denmark went through a Re-formation very much like that of theChurch of England, and their servicesare very similar to ours, though more ritualistic. They are brought up on theCollects, Epistles and Gospels just likeour own Church people. The officialdoctrine is called Lutheran, and is nearthe original Lutheranism. It is probablyas orthodox as our own. They havetheir bishops who in Sweden prettysurely have the valid Apostolic succes-sion. For many years intercommunion be-tween our Anglican Churohes and theChurch of Sweden has been LANDING OF THE SWEDES INWILMINGTON, DELAWARE IN 1638 In 1909 a deputation of the English andAmerican Churches conferred with thearchbishop of Upsala and the CathedralChapter. The conference recognized thatintercommunion practically existed, al-though official action was not taken. In 1638 the Swedes began to settlenear the Delaware River, and thereSwedish priests started missions to theIndians. From that time to 1831 Swedensent to the Delaware colony, thirty-fourpriests all of whom were recognizedby the English Church, and had permis-sion to minister not only to their ownpeople, but to the English Dei, or Old Swedes, in Phila-delphia was originally under the Churchof Sweden. The rector from 1786 to1831 was the last of the long hne ofmissionaries sent by the Mother Churchof Sweden to give the Bread of Lifeto her children on this distant
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