A History of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the United States volume 4
A History of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the United States volume 4
Henry Eyster Jacobs
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(died 1893), E. Norelius, D. D. , and J. Swensson (died 1873). Compared to its present proportions, the Augustana Synod, as organized in Rock County, Wis. , June 5, i860, with 27 pastors, 49 congrega- tions, and 4967 communicants, was a mere handful. One of its founders, ^ reviewing the past, traces the guiding hand of Providence in the fact that '' the Swedish Evan- geUcal Lutheran Church in America was founded before 1 Dr. E. Norelius, in " Lutheran Church Review, " vol. V. , p. 27. 414 ^■^^'... LUTHERANS. [Chap, xxiii. the time when the tide of laxity in doctrine and practice swept over the old Fatherland, " and recognizes ^ the valu- able educational process through which the Swedes had passed during their connection with the Synod of North- ern Illinois. It should not be forgotten that one of the chief obstacles against which they had to struggle was the vigorous at- tempt, made through a Rev. G. Unonius, to carry both Norwegians and Swedes into the Protestant Episcopal Church, upon the ground that the Episcopal organization of the churches of Norway and Sweden rendered the Episcopal Church of this country their proper spiritual home.
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