. A church history for the use of schools and colleges . antals (1867, by Bcerresen and Skrefsrud) supportedmainly by Scandinavians in Europe and America. The Church of Sweden labors among the Zulus inSouth Africa and also among the Tamils of India. Thelatter field is now worked in connection with the Lu-theran Church in Germany. The work is a continuationof the Danish mission at Tranquebar begun by Ziegen-balg. For Sweden the work was first carried on by theSwedish Missionary Society (Svenska missionssallska-pet), but it has now turned the field over to the SwedishChurch and at present it onl
. A church history for the use of schools and colleges . antals (1867, by Bcerresen and Skrefsrud) supportedmainly by Scandinavians in Europe and America. The Church of Sweden labors among the Zulus inSouth Africa and also among the Tamils of India. Thelatter field is now worked in connection with the Lu-theran Church in Germany. The work is a continuationof the Danish mission at Tranquebar begun by Ziegen-balg. For Sweden the work was first carried on by theSwedish Missionary Society (Svenska missionssallska-pet), but it has now turned the field over to the SwedishChurch and at present it only maintains orphan homesand schools in Lapland. The Evangelical FatherlandAssociation (Evangeliska Fosterlandsstiftelsen) laborsin Northern Abyssinia, aiming at reaching the Gallapeople in the West. It also carries on missions in threedistricts in Central India. And finally the SwedishMission Covenant supports missions in the Congo Free 344 THE MODERN ERA State and other places. Among the more prominentSwedish missionaries we may mention the gifted and. zealous Dr. P. Fjellstedt, who after successful laborsamong heathen peoples devoted himself to the equally THE PROPAGATION OF THE GOSPEL 345 important work of arousing and maintaining mission-ary interest at home; and secondly the learned anddevoted A. Blomstrand, who employed his rich gifts andpowers among the Tamils of India. The first efforts of the Lutherans in America werenecessarily directed towards home missions. As soonas the General Synod had been organized the questionof foreign missions began to be seriously considered,and a foreign missionary society was formed in 1837. Inthe meantime the Ministerium of Pennsylvania, whichhad withdrawn from the General Synod, had organizeda missionary society the previous year. In 1839 theRev. C. F. Heyer, afterwards reverently called FatherHeyer, was called by the General Synod as missionaryto India. He accepted the call, but learning that hewas to be placed under the care of the Am
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