Full text: The national Church of Sweden

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like the Mothers’ Union, extended throughout and beyond 
the Empire. 
I have already mentioned the ‘ Evangeliska Foster- 
lands férbundet,”’ and the value of its lay missionaries. I 
do not know what its present strength is, or how far it 
employs working men, but I think it might be well worth 
while for some Swedish Churchmen to study rather closely 
the merits and defects of our English ‘* Church Army.” 
I have often spoken of the immense debt which we owe to 
this latter body. 
The ‘Church Army” founded in 1882, shows how 
some 500 evangelists, of strict loyalty to the Church and 
splendid devotion, may be drawn from the ranks of work- 
ing people. I pass over the myriad other agencies which 
give fibre and blood to our corporate life. I only quote 
these as evidences of what may be done voluntarily by men 
and women who are in earnest, working within the Church 
and in strict subordination to authority, to put new spirit 
into an old institution. 
There seems absolutely no reason why similar move- 
ments should not succeed in Sweden (where the *‘ Salvation 
Army ” has already made great progress), and in a short 
time bear fruits worthy of our admiration and emulation. 
Its freedom of self-government enables it to move solidly 
and safely, and its home and foreign missions are evidently 
growing fast. 
(4) What line of development may we hope and expect 
that the Swedish Church will take, and what may 
be ils main contribution to the progress of the 
Kingdom of God and to the life of the Catholic or 
Universal Church? 
The position of the Church of Sweden is a very remark- 
able one as an intensely national and rather isolated 
(2) to encourage purity of life, dutifulness to parents, faithful- 
ness to employers, temperance and thrift; (3) to provide the 
privileges of the society to its members wherever they may be 
by giving them an introduction from one branch to another.
	        
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