The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-11-08

city on sunday:
Il hope sincerely that my appre.
tensions are wrong and that i have
wide margin to be set right, when
/ breach the opinion that there is no
one here this afternoon that would
find any other than a bad reason to
warrant my significant and poor APP,
pearance in this pulpit in order to
appeal to you to whom | have rea,
sons to trust are, and always will
be, loyal Lutherans and worthy Am.
orleans.
Judging from the apt and agree
able way of your procedure thus
far in this celebration, and realiZ.
ing, in little way, how we'll the
president of this district in his SER
mon last night has tuned the harps
and somewhat discerning the alb.
sorbing effectiveness with which you
have embraced those who have pre-
viously spoken in that pleasing grace
resultant upon scholarly attainment
and genuine service to the church,
l am heartily in sympathy with you
in your opinion that there is very lit,
tie place in this pulpit for truncat-
ed laymen to venture on any quail
fed, or in the least, on any com
prehensive discourse.
But even l have had the honor
of being a pastor here for a time,
there can be no other reason why
/ was called upon to speak. And
friends, l find myself facing, as |
have faced perhaps a thousand times,
that gentle forbearance, tolerant,
and congenial disposition, so I'M
pressively apparent in so many of
our synodical congregations, and l
must say at this anniversary fes-
tival, that it is, for one of the newer
generation, almost irresistably invit-
ing to see satisfaction and thankful
ness lined on the faces, especially of
those who long since left their faith
erland with empty hands, hymn
book and their God, and have
wrought many and innumerable use
full things in this new and wide re-
public.
Accordingly l feel a deep and
perhaps pardOnable temptation to
launch out from this delightful en-
vironment, which ought to inspire
even the merest novice such as my
self to at least a respectable peror-
alton, to launch out, | say into a
sea of fervor and immunerations.
However | beg your pardon in my
failure to adequately and with prop
er force, present any immunerations
Being, as you are, more bent to log
ical ways, it will be impossible to
enlist you in any loose expostula-
lions. There can hardly be any use
in unfounded and undisciplined opin-
ions and very little utility, if any
there be at all, in any ones effort to
waste your valuable time by rides
cent defamation.
But the actions of the members
of this congregation must be heart.
lily Endorsed. A hearty congratula-
ton must be extended to them upon
having reached their twenty-fifth an
niversary. The actions of any Per-
sons must be heartily indorsed who
will find no more serious and pleas
ant object pending than in the
appreciation you have shown by ycn,
effectiveness on such men as the
Rev. Mr.. Boman who last evening
preached such mastery sermon
and who has worked so long in this
district. Your appreciation must be
heartily Endorsed, of such men as the
Rev. Franzen, Rev. Erickson, Rev
Tulin and Rev. Lindholm, especially
OF such men as have past the VEN
turesome hour of high noon in the
wake of their transformations and
consecrated lives.
MY honored and revered fathers,
and l might include among them
Esbjom, Hasselquist, Olson, Sioblom
who has passed await is because
OF your prayerful interest and effort
that we now can write beneath your
works that all-embracing sentence:
All is WELL How have you not come
over the wide waters to this broad
and adventuresome land in the spirit
of the martyr of Lutzen, charging
his countrymen with the grave task
OF his puritan emulation. History has
not marked it so well, coerced his
torians have not recorded it, biased
contemporaries did not perceive the
mighty and mysterious genius of
that perpleXing darkness, but the
great Snow King who was awake and
slept little. who slept with the little
DOCK OF the apostle of peace beneath
his inflow the hook on natural laws
by Hugo Grotius; this keen intellect
shall yet be known by high minded,
1alr and animated scholars as the
greatest military hero that Europe
has ever produced.
Hugo Grotius, upon whose works
Gustavus Adolphus pondered, and in
the largest measure Grotius is con-
ceded by Americans and Europeans
to be the great apostle OF peace. He
was this because of his absolute
humanity and serene prophetic Wis
ion in his analysis of human natural
law.
Hugo Grotius was able to make
good verses at nine, was ripe for
the university at twelve, and at ff-
teen edited the encyclopedia work
OF Marcianus Capella. Gustavus did
not lose his life before 1882, and in
1923 when the De lure Belli of Gro
thus was composed. the great kline
had for a long time pondered the
things laid down in this book. It was
not before 1868 that the De lure
Praedae of Grotius was printed at
the Hague by Professor Fruin. AT
this Hague it was strongly brought
out how this last mentioned work
was composed by Grotius when ne
was tWenty-one years of age. And vet
GustaVus had pondered these same
questions when he was but bow.
would not venture to predict
what might have occurred in Della.
ware had this noble nronhetic lin O