Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-10-18
the old homeland. Physically they are
able to hold what they have at home and

the old homeland. Physically they are
able to hold what they have at home and
abroad. e. l #
Again. Scandinavia's people are Of one
50 than any S part 81 EUROPE Great a
Britain and France are Teutonic and
Celtic. Germany has q large Slavic ele-
ment. Russia has large Finnish, German
vians are themselves. nothing more. no.
thing less. While their blood at times
poured into English. Slavic. French and
70 lands
peninsula. Scandinavia has contribute
ed literally to other nations, but re-
ceived little or nothing in return: It
land, Scotland and Ireland formed a
political union at home and kept in
touch with their children abroad. though
ligion. The freer, scandinavians have
home-rule. Denmark. Norway and Swed-
en- are three distinct Kingdoms with no
higher union, but nevertheless strongly
blood, language and religion. This tri-
pie unity is being more and more APP
ing and putting forth heroic efforts to
keep In touch with their children in the
four corners Of the earth. We pity peo-
pie who forget their mother tongue and
thus cut the iVe-Wire that connects
them with the world-expanding Scandi-
navian life and culture. u.s. :
The people are universally Protestant,
in contrast to Germany. which, is one
third catholis. RomaniSm w, was never
Britain and the United States have their
Catholic problems, and Germany still
today. fears the Pope and Mohammed,
the three Scandinavian kingdoms have
no occasion for Roman or Mohammedan
missions at home or among bordering
nations: Finland, the Baltic Provinces
and other Evangelical people surround
politics, education and business, and re-
sent cant. show and deception. In no
country did all the people accept all the
teacfi%gs of the eva, Reformation more
faithfully. Not only are ali Protestants,
but of a single type Of Protestants-
L su3as dominated by the live,
Rsssse 1sSisP aefs
Hauge and Wilhelm Beck. The scandi,
navian Kingdoms have the same relig-
i lou he hero Gas as Germany. 1t speaks we'll
ilization of the mortimer that the man
who influenced them most was not a
Scandinavian, but foreigner of the
nation nearest Like them: They have
held by Germany in the South. At the
same time they differ less in outward
life from the church Of Scotland and
the 100000 Films, 100000 of whom
are of the same Evangelical type, they
must come in close contact with the
Greek Catholics of Russia. By means
of the Scandinavian languages the
church of the north in Europe became
Evangelical and these languages have
and will contribute literally to the
church of the north in the new world.
The Scandinavians, as we said are
the leading cultural people of the great
North. They are evangelical and have
developed the Evangelical as we'll as
the Protestant in the Christian relig-
ion. They give the Bible first place. In
view of their natural aversion to the
false and their love of the true, and
their loyalty to simple Bible teaching
applied by pastors and lay-preachers to
all men, they are essentially mission
airy people. AS we have seen, they
evangelical the Lapps in the far North,
the Firms in the East and the Eskimos
in the West. Carefully subtract the cul-
ture and civilization introduced into the
vast land area of the North through the
Scandinavian languages and you will be
convinced as to whether it is worth
while to keep up the Scandinavian. Ian
guage in northern states Of the new
world. People move west and east
along lines Of latitude and not north
and south along lines Of longitude. Their
culture and languages grow in the same
direction. Hence the need of the peo-
pie of the north spreading their langu-
age in the north. These are some not
all, of the national characteristics of the
Scandinavians.
J. N. LENKER,
Minneapolis, MIMI, Oct. 18th, 1911.