The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-06-24
BUDGET or EXPENSE
ESTIMATE OF WHAT THE UNITED
CHURCH MUST SPEND NEXT
YEAR.
PROCEEDINGS OF YESTERDAY
THOSE IN FAVOR OF EXTENDING
ENGLISH IN THE WORK WIN
A VICTORY.
PROCEEDINGS OF YESTERDAY
soaIE REFERENCE TO AUGSBURG.
Managers of the ChiIdren's Home at
Beloit, To-, EIected-MOre Com
mittees Chosen.

Those who are anxious to extend the
use Of the English language in the
| work Of the United church scored
| signal victory yesterday morning by
| securing the adoption Of the follow
| ing, which was signed by Prof. Lund
| and Rev. Mr.. Marvick:
| The English Conference of the United Nor
| Weglan Lutheran Church of America, in &C
cordance with motion passed in the Eng
! fish conference. assembled at Trinity Nor
| wegian Lutheran church, St Paul. June Is
| 1897, respectfully petitions the United church
| to set aside one afternoon session and an
! evening session at the annual meetings Of the
! United church to consider the interests of
| our English work.
The following ministers were admit
| ted into the United church: Rev. Mr..
Johnson, of Suttonis Bay, Mich; Rev.
| G. Christensen, Of Gardner, ILL.,, and
! Rev. J. Sather, of West Duluth, Mimi.
| A motion to establish a new theologi-
cal chair at the United church semin-
airy naturally aroused great interest.
| Prof. YtterbO objected to the motion
on the following grounds: The present
| theological professors devote one-third
| Of their time in the college department.
| Now, instead Of appointing fourth
| theological professor, it would be better
more Of their time to the theological
| department, and leave the college de-
partment, on the principle that "a
| goldsmith ought not to do blacksmith
work. The college department ought
not to be tied too strongly to the
! theological department, because the
former may be dropped, if ST. Olaf
| college, of Mortified, becomes the
property of the United church. Prof.
Boeckman, the president Of the semin-
airy, for years has maintained the need
Of a professor Of Old Testament
eXegesis. Rev. M. Saterli was strongly
| in favor Of thorough work at the
seminary. A. student at Augsburg
seminary he had been sorry to see the
sad results Of devoting too little time
to the work. Many Of the students of
Augsburg had afterwards studied at
other schools, and some of them had
turned out to be one-half or complete
free-thinkers. Prof Mohn, the presi-
dent Of st. Olaf college, was also in
| favor of a professor Of Old Testament
eXegesis, but the proposed candidate,
Rev. Kildahl, of Chicago, was not the
| man for the position though he might,
if elected, in the course of time be able
to do the work in question in a salts
factory manner. Rev. Mr.. Hofstad
would not take Rev. Mr.. Kildahl from
his successful work in Chicago.
Rev. Mr.. Slettedahl, on the other
hand, thought the appointment of
KiIdahl would be hailed with a shout
of rejoicing throughout the United
church.
This important motion was lost by
vote of 233 to "a. But the theological
faculty and the board of school direc-
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vote to consider this question, and re-
port at the next annual meeting.
The late Prof Bugge, of Kristiania,
Norway, left a large collection OF rare
works on theological subjects This
private library can be had for $500.
and a motion was made to secure it
for the United church seminary. Hon.
H. Steensland called attention to the
extra expenses which the purchase of
this library would involve. Rev. j.
Olsen knew that the library was worth
many times the price asked and Prof.
Lund said that it could not be dupli-
Gated in this country for anything less
than $4,000. 1t was resolved to buy
the library in question.
In order to cut down the travelling
expenses of the committees, the number
of members on missions was reduced
from eight to six and that of the board
Of school directors from seven to five
longing to the United church and 22G
which do not belong to said association.
but which are served by ministers be-
longing to it, have not contributed any
thing to the current expenses of the
United church. These $50 churches
were urged by a resolution to make
contributions in the future.
AS to the demand for a new building
at the normal school in Madison, Mimi,
the board of trustees of the United
church were instructed to donate a
lot of brick, in case the desired build
ing be erected.
There was an almost feveriSh rush
of business in the afternoon. But the
pile was so big that it was soon ap.
parent that another day had to be put