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al students under their care. Nearly a hundred 

 years afterward the seminary was established 

 in 1804 without buildings and with no endow- 

 ment. In a short time, however, several chairs 

 were endowed, and the work of the institution 

 prospered. More than 700 students have been 

 educated in the seminary. In the Ministerium 

 of Pennsylvania alone 205 out of 309 pastors on 

 the roll at the last meeting received their train- 

 ing in this institution. In the Ministerium of 

 New York 61 out of 136 are enrolled on the rec- 

 ords of the seminary. More than half of the 

 ministers in the Pittsburg Synod are among the 

 seminary alumni. Some of her sons have fallen 

 in India, and others are still laboring there. The 

 alumni of the seminary are scattered over the 

 United States. They are laboring in all the gen- 

 eral' bodies of the Lutheran Church, a. Philadel- 

 phia alumnus being president of the General 

 Synod. The president and 3 of the professors 

 of the new theological seminary in Chicago are 

 graduates of this institution; so also is 1 mem- 

 ber of the faculty of the seminary itself. She 

 has had among her students natives not only of 

 the United States, but of Canada, Germany, Nor- 

 way, Sweden, Denmark, Iceland, Russia, and Hin- 

 dustan. When, in 1893, the venerable chairman 

 of the faculty, the Rev. Charles W. Schaeffer, 

 D. D., LL. D., celebrated his eightieth birthday, 

 he was greeted by the students in 6 languages. 

 The seminary has property valued at $130,000, and 

 endowment amounting to nearly as much more. 



Among the independent synods, the Joint 

 Synod of Ohio held its thirty-second convention 

 at Columbus, and took an important step in the 

 selection of a president who shall devote his 

 time to the work of the synod. The Rev. C. H. 

 L. Schuette, formerly Professor of Theology in 

 Capital University, Columbus, Ohio, was elected 

 to this office. The Ohio synod is one of the old- 

 est bodies of the Church in this country, and has 

 numerous important institutions and operations 

 under its control. The synod has 389 ministers, 

 548 congregations, and 7i,768 communicants. 



The fifth annual convention of the United 

 Norwegian Church was held in St. Paul, Minn., 

 June 13-21, 1894. The meeting was attended 

 by 700 clerical and lay delegates, and by about 

 an equal number of visitors from the congre- 

 gations. The following are the officers of the 

 synod : The Rev. Gjermund Hoyme, Eau Claire, 

 Wis., president; the Rev. Theodor H. Dahl, 

 Stoughton, Wis., vice-president ; the Rev. Jens 

 C. Jensson, Clinton, Wis., secretary ; and Hon. 

 Lars Swensson, Minneapolis, Minn., treasurer. 

 The synod was organized in 1890, and has 300 

 ministers, 1,028 congregations, and 107,830 com- 

 municant members, and last year expended 

 nearly $70,000 for missions and works of mercy. 

 The treasurer's report showed that the synod 

 possesses, in property and endowment, $170.- 

 000. The report on educational institutions for 

 the last year showed that the theological semi- 

 nary at Minneapolis had 39 theological and 60 

 collegiate students, who were cared for in tem- 

 porary quarters, the institution having no build- 

 ings. A committee was, however, appointed at 

 this convention to take steps toward securing 

 land and money for the much needed buildings. 

 Augustana College, at Canton. S. Dak., reported 

 140 students; St. Olaf College, at Northfield, 



Minn., 129 students; Concordia College, at 

 Moorhead, Minn., 216 students; the college at 

 Grand Forks, N. Dak., 254 students ; the nor- 

 mal school at Madison, Minn., 98 ; the institute 

 at St. Ansgar, Iowa, 150; and the Indian mission 

 school at Wittenberg, Wis., 155 students. Pa- 

 cific University, at Tacoma, Wash., was opened 

 for the reception of students in the fall of the 

 year. The mission superintendent called atten- 

 tion to the fact that the most important points 

 for mission work at present are Chicago and 

 the Pacific coast. The mission treasurer re- 

 ported an income of $21,000 during the year for 

 missions, and the receipts for educational and 

 benevolent work as amounting to $100,000. 



The tercentenary of the birth of Gustavus 

 Adolphus, which occurred on Dec. 9, was very 

 generally observed throughout the Church in 

 America, as well as in Europe, by Lutherans of 

 all nationalities, as also by other Protestants. 

 Gustavus Adolphus was the Lutheran hero of 

 the North, the defender of the faith against 

 Romanism, and a martyr for Protestantism. 

 He was born, Dec. 9, 1594, at Stockholm, Sweden, 

 and was the son of Charles IX and grandson of 

 Gustavus Vasa. By the latter the Reformation 

 was introduced into the country, and all Scan- 

 dinavian countries have been Lutheran ever 

 since. King Charles died, Oct. 30, 1611, and his 

 son Gustavus was crowned King. He is par- 

 ticularly known in history as the defender of the 

 faith during the Thirty" Years' War, 1618-'48. 

 Gustavus, seeing the wrongs against the Lu- 

 theran princes and people, and being urged 

 by the smaller states and many free cities of 

 Germany, came to the help of his fellow-Luther- 

 ans, landed in northern Germany at the head 

 of his Swedish and Finnish soldiers in June, 

 1630. In eight months he had captured 80 for- 

 tified towns and cities. He defeated the armies 

 of Tilly and Pappenheim near Leipzig, in Sep- 

 tember, 1630. From this time he began to be 

 regarded as the liberator of the Protestants, and 

 by the following spring almost all Bavaria was 

 in his possession. During 1632 numerous battles 

 were fought, in one of which, at the river Lech, 

 near Rain, Tilly was mortally wounded. While 

 the army of Gustavus was victorious, that of 

 the Elector of Saxony was defeated by Wallen- 

 stein, who now united his forces with the impe- 

 rialists of Bavaria and marched against Gustavus. 

 They met at Luetzen, near Leipzig. The night 

 of Nov. 5, 1632, was spent in preparation for 

 battle, and in the morning of the 6th, when the 

 fog lifted, the soldiers, with Gustavus, were 

 kneeling in their ranks. They sang Luther's 

 battle hymn, " A mighty fortress is our God," 

 and Gustavus's hymn, " Fear not, little flock," 

 and then charged the enemy with the prayer, 

 " Lord Jesus, help me to fight for the honor of 

 thy name ! " The King was killed while leading 

 his soldiers, but his army defeated Wallenstein 

 and gained the decisive battle of that war. 



Another event of more than ordinary impor- 

 tance to Lutherans in this country was the bi- 

 centennial celebration of the Francke institu- 

 tions at Halle, Germany, which was attended by 

 two representatives of the Church in this coun- 

 try. The connection of the Halle institutions 

 with the Lutheran Church in this country was 

 very close during the eighteenth century. 



