. A church history for the use of schools and colleges . the time of the separation the Swedish part of thesynod numbered 46 pastors, 110 congregations, 57church edifices, and 16,960 communicant new conferences were now added, New York, Iowa,and Kansas, and the boundaries of all the conferenceswere definitely fixed. In 1886 the Nebraska Conferencewas organized andseven 3Tears later theColumbia and Califor-nia Conferences wereadded, making eightconferences in all. The Synod has animmense home mis-sion field embracingat present (1906)nearly all the statesand territories of theUnion
. A church history for the use of schools and colleges . the time of the separation the Swedish part of thesynod numbered 46 pastors, 110 congregations, 57church edifices, and 16,960 communicant new conferences were now added, New York, Iowa,and Kansas, and the boundaries of all the conferenceswere definitely fixed. In 1886 the Nebraska Conferencewas organized andseven 3Tears later theColumbia and Califor-nia Conferences wereadded, making eightconferences in all. The Synod has animmense home mis-sion field embracingat present (1906)nearly all the statesand territories of theUnion and most ofthe provinces and ter-ritories of greater part ofthis work is donethrough the missionboards of the variousconferences, the central mission board of the synodhaving charge of such fields as lie outside of the boundsof the conferences. Its foreign mission, work is carriedon through the General Council of which the Synod isa member. There have never been any doctrinal controversiesnor any schism within the Synod. The only questions. C O. Rosenius. 330 THE MODERN ERA that have arisen have been mainly of a constitutional,financial, and educational nature. A spirit of true pie-tism characterized the during the earlieryears, and the influence of Dr. Fjellstedt, C. O. Rosenius(§ 92), and Pastor Ahlberg was deeply felt. On thedeath of C. 0. Rosenius and the rise of the Walden-stromian heresy in Sweden, the doctrine of the atone-ment was earnestly discussed and carefully studied byboth pastors and people. This led to a deeper andclearer insight into the Word of God and has borneblessed fruit throughout the Synod. The name Augustana was suggested by Rev., afterwards Dr.,Eric Norelius. It was a most appropriate name as it gave expres-sion to the sound doctrinal position of the Synod (The AugsburgConfession is known in Latin as the Confessio Augustana). Thefull official name of the Synod, The Scandinavian EvangelicalLutheran Augustana Synod of North
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