The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-09-23
THE SWEDISH CONFERENCE HAS
ADJOURNED UNTIL NEXT
YEAR
THE CLOSING EXERCISES
Several Pastors Delivered Eloquent
Addresses-SOme Sermons to Be
Preached T0day-List of
the Delegates.

The formal closing of the Swedish Bap-
fist conference took place yesterday noon
but nearly all the delegates are in the
city as several addresses are to be given
today by some of the visitors.
At 1920 Prof Hedeen will preach
to a mass meeting at the First Baptist
church, corner of Payne avenue and Sims,
and in the afternoon the delegates will
assemble again and short addresses are
to be given by several of the visiting
ministers. The evening sermon will be
preached by Rev. E. Vingreen and
Rev Hjalmar, both of whom have
been engaged in foreign missionary work
The last session closed with a vote of
thanks to the officers who had labored
faithfully for the cuccessful consumma-
ton of the largest and best of all confer
ences of the church. Two additional
committees We're elected to take charge
of all work coming under the care of the
conference during the ensuing year. The
executive committee was named as fol-
lows: Revs. Hjilm, Swartz, Rosen, Nord-
lander, Hagstrom, Hallgren and Sandel.
Committee on tactics and printing, Hjilm,
Gjertstrom. Boden. Peterson, Swartz.
NOAA4NA NV -
the Young Peoples Union was held. Rev.
NJ Berglund was elected to preside with
Revs. Syguist and Hagstrom as secretar-
les. Rev. Hagstrom choose the very APP
propriate subject Our Young People -
He mentioned the need of cooperation be-
tween the older members of the congre-
cations and the younger ones of the Sun
day schools, He il rated his text by
relating several of his experiences in his
own congregation, especially the good
work done by the juniors in hospitals.
Prof. Hedeen chose as his subject,
"Our Heritage and What to Do With It.
He told of the fine principles left by the
past and what is the duty of all toward
them in the future. Especially, he dep
recated the Importance of the so-called
higher criticism. His illustrations were
SO apt and to the point, that the young
people were completely carried away with
his remarks.
Rev. East took up the needs of foreign
missions and urged the young people to
lend their energies toward the Iabors in
progress there. After some discussion
it was decided to request the editor of
the "Ungdomius Tiding' to incorporate In
his paper department for a course in
Christian culture.
During the eVenin Rev. Syguist led an
enthusiastic song service. Every one en-
tered into the programme with such zest
that the half hour pa; sed too quickly
Rev. c. A. Sahlquist.' who has recently
returned from the missionary field in
China, has given out some interesting re-
marks upon the situation there. He said:
Our work. said he, ''has been in the
province of 81 Chua, Western China,
where we have had no trouble with the
Boxers, although there may have been
some disturbance in the outlying Catholic
missions, but not, as I am aware, of a
serious nature
1.-THE withdrawal of troops from Pektl
before some understanding is reached
relative to peace negotia tons is a great
garding war are very peculiar, and they
have not been changed since the days of
ACKNOWLEDGMENT. Their idea is that when
nation goes to war all the vanquished
must be killed or eXternninated and 1t is