The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-06-19
UNITED CHURCH APPOINTS COM
= RTITTEES AND STARTS WORK In
REAL EARNEST.
MISSIONS MADE ONE TOPIC
FOR THE GENERAL DISCUSSION OF
YESTERDAY WITH THE FINAN-
GEES PROMINENT.
DISPUTE OVER AUGSBURG
Is Looked Forward to Hopefully
by All.

The complete absence of all personal
e1smoSitieS, not to mention quarrels
y and denurciations, is already having
its natural effect upon the business
transactions Of the annual meeting Of
the United church. There is no hitch
or flaw, and, considering the immense
amount of work before the meeting.
the progress made is highly satisfac-
tory.
A slight cloud was cast upon the
audience in the early part of the morn
ing session by an announcement made
by Rev. w. o. Lee, of Milwaukee, TO
the effect that Rev. O. Mas, of Bosco-
hel, Wis, had breathed his last the
previous day.
Seven congregations were admitted
! into the United church yesterday morn
ing, namely:
The Emmanuel church, Sutton Bay, Mich. !;
the st. Paul church Norman county, Mime
ota; Our SaYior'S church, Republic county.
Kansas; the Deer Creek church, Nebraska;
the Zion church. GarreJson, S. D.; the Big
Stone church. Clinton, Mimi; the Glen Flora
church, Wisconsin.
The Augsburg question was
brought before the house by Rev. n.
G. Brun, of Lake Mills, To-, who. as
: Augsburg seminary, submitted long
report which was fortified by six huge
exhibits The board had held four
/. executive sessions in the course Of the
year. But this gives no proper clew
to the amount of work performed. All
attempts to have joint meeting with
the minority board, which now
holds Augsburg seminary, had failed;
but Prof S. Oftedal, the president of
the latter board, had repeatedly met
the board first mentioned. In one sense
the Augsburg case has been tried twice,
and it is liable to be tried a third
time any day. In the first place the
United church board requested Attor-
ney General Childs, of Minnesota, to
try the case in the name of the state
of Minnesota; but he refused to do So.
The next step was an attempt to OBJ
tain permission to try the case in the
regular order, and this permission was
granted by the judges, Simpson and
Belden, although the minority had left
no stone unturned to prevent the
granting of this privilege to the United
church. Thus, the queer thing about
this famous case is that it took two
quaSi-but very eXpensiVe-trails to
carry it to a trial bearing on the pith
and kernel of the controversy, that is,
the legal title to the property known
as Augsburg seminary. Rev. Brun
could make no predictions as to the
decision of the court, but he did say
that any decision would be beneficial
to the United church by way of put
ting an end to a demoralizing con-
troversy. This report was so COM
prehensive that the meeting resolved
to elect a special committee Of four to
report on it.
Rev. G. Rasmussen, of Minneapolis,
read a letter addressed to the meeting
from his aged father, Rev. P A. Ras-
mussen, of Lisbon, Ill. 1t was resolved
to spread the letter on the minutes of
the meeting, and upon a motion by Rev
+. Dreyer. Rev. Kildahl was instructed
to answer the letter in the name of the
United church.
\ Rev. p. J. Reinertsen. of Gardner,
Wis, was instructed to send greetings
from the meeting to Rev. r. Salveson,
of Milan. Mimi, who is very sick.
The subject of THE Missions of the
United Church" was discussed for about
an hour in the forenoon. the speakers
being: Rev. G. G. Gjerstad, of Gunder,
To-; Rev. P. Nykrem, Rev l. Muller
Eggen. Lyle, Mimi; Rev. j. n. Kildahl,
Chicago; Rev. T. H. Dahl, Stoughton,
Wis; Rev. N. E. Bo, Silver Lake, To-,
and Rev. n. B. Thvedt, of Duluth,
MINI. The speakers agreed that more
money had to be raised for the mis-
Sions, $22 900, the amount raised last
year. looked like a large sum Of
money. but in the light of the numeri-
cal strength of the United church, it
was not so large. Rev. n. Z. BO
even took occasion to make fun of a
wealthy man whom he had seen walk
ing up the aisle of the church with ten
cents in his hand for the missions.
The following committees were elect
ed:
Committee on the Presidents Report-Rev.
TIL. Eggen, Madison, Wis; Rev. H. c. Holm
Eagle Grove, To-; Rev. R. o. Eldahl, New
Hope, Wis; R. o. Berg. Rus,hford, Mimi.
Elias Biorli, Northwood 10.
Committee the Report of the Secretary
Rev. A. Wright, RushfOrd, Mimi. Rev. E. j.
Rogne, Austin, Mimi; Rev. o. NJ Sayik,
Wiota, Wis; J. P. Bolkang. and E. Ellingsen.
Committee on the Reports of the Treasurer
and of the Board of Trustees-Pref. H. T.
Ytterko of Mortified, Mimi; Rev. G. A.
Larson, of Ada, Mimi; Rev. l. VI. Dahl Of
Ratna, To-; o. o. NorvOld of Goodhue county.
Minnesota, and Knud Aslesen of st. Ansgar,
10.
Committee on Reports From the Schools
Prof. TIL. Mohn of Mortified, Mimi; Rev.
NJ. Saterli, Ellsworth, To-; Rev. H. Q. Fields
tad Granite Falls, Mimi. c. Schiander,
LanesborO. Mimi; and Olaf Stangeland, Eagle
Grove 10.
Comm:ttee to Report on the Missions
Rev. J. c. Helsem. of Strum, Wis; Rev. NJ.
Hegge, Brooklyn. n. Y; Rev. VI. L. Thork-
veen. Of st. James; P. Langemo, of Goodhue
county. Minnesota. and P. Grotheim, Duluth.
CONlinJsee ON the Report OF the BOARD OF
Trustees of Augsburg Seminary-Rev. l.
Thara.dsen. of Chippewa Falls, Wis; Rev.
n. E. BO. of Silver Lake, To-; Rev. A. Peter
sen. Of Fort Howard, Wis; A. o. Bakken,
of Albert Lea; and Alfred Cypreansen, OF
Eau Claire, Wis.
The committee on nominal tons being
OF the greatest Importance, the commit
tee elected to report on the suggestions
made in the presidents report, was
also instructed to report on the advis-
, ability of increasing the number OF
members of the committee on nomina-
lions from five to nine.
Rev. O. G. FarSeth had handed in
his resignation as visitor of the Mon
tevideO district, but the meeting re.
fused to accept his resignation by g
laundering no"
The old committee of ordination wa:
instructed to serve during the meeting
The chair appointed the following t.
equaliZe the travelling expenses of tbs
ministers to the meeting: Rev. P
,Tangjerd, of Eau Claire. Wis; Rev
O. T. Norby, Chicago. ILL.,, and Rev
]. y. Swalestuen, Ruthven, 10.
The discussion Of the question "Th'