New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1914-07-15
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NAMED BY KING OF SWEDEN

Named BY KING OF sweden
Lars oIof Jonathan soderbIom, Phi.
D., Q. D., Becomes Archbishop Of
the State church-Governor Hanna
Of North Dakota Makes Fourth Of
July Speech at christiania-Russi
Opposing Finnish Participation in
the oIympian Games.
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On May 20 the king of Sweden, as
the head of the state church in that
country, appointed Lars Olof iona
than Soderblom, Phi. D., D. D., arch
bishop of the Church of Sweden. It
will be remembered, says The Luth-
eran, that at meeting Of the high
council Bishop DaneA had received
fourteen votes, Bishop Eklund six
votes and DR.. Soderblom six. The
new archbishop was born in Trono
and is forty-eight years old. His
father was Lutheran minister in
the state church. He took his de-
gree Of Phi. D. at the University of
upsala when only little over twen-
ty years old, and six years later re-
ceived the degree of D. D. After
serving as hospital preacher for a
year he became pastor of the Swedish
congregation in Paris In 1894, at the
same time serving as seaman's mis-
sionary in Calais, Dunkerque and
Boulogne. While engaged in this
work he also pursued studies at the
University of Sorbonne, and In 1898
received diploma from Ecale des
Hautes Etudes and two years later
the Sorbonne conferred on him the
degree of doctor of divinity. In 1901
he left Paris to accept the profess
sorship of theological encyclopedia at
Upsala university, which he has held
ever since. He had been offered sew
eral important positions, which he
has refused. In the same year that
he accepted the professorship at Up
sala he was offered a position as
theological professor at Leiden and
several years ago he was offered the
chair of religious history in Leipzig.
Since then he has been spending most
Of his time between Upsala and Leip-
zig. A number OF other institutions
have honored him with titles and in
other ways.
The campaign for an alliance be-
tween Sweden and Norway continues
without dissenting note. Prominent
politicians of all parties are advocat-
ing such course on the public plat
forms and in the newspapers. The
movement, however, still lacks any
official action. Sven Hedin, the Swed-
ish explorer, and Sigurd Ibsen have
exchanged visits between Stockholm
and Christiania, and each has found
public sentiment agreeable to the
proposed alliance. The irreconcil-
able differences which led to the dis
ruption of the union between the two
countries in 1905, and which barely
escaped causing war, seem to have
smoothed out to the extent at least
that both people desire to unite in a
defensive alliance against possible
Russian aggression. The increase in
the army and navy of Sweden, in
stead of exciting the concern of Nor
way, is greeted there with the utmost
satisfaction, it is said, and Norway
herself has strong movement under
way for an increase in ornaments
1bsen, in his lectures in Stockholm re-
Gently, argued that the two foreign
offices and general stats should have
formal agreement for working togeth-
er in case of war.
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King Gustaf's birthday was gen
orally observed in Stockholm and
throughout the cities and villages OF
Sweden. In Stockholm the public
buildings were all profusely decorat-
ed with flags and bunting, but there
was plainly lacking the old time en-.
thusiasm. It seemed that there is a
party advocating a republican form
of government in Sweden that is
growing at an alarming rate and ii
would not surprise careful students
Of Swedish affairs to see some radi.
cal changes take place within the
next five years. However, the de
tense party, headed by King Gustat
and Sven Hedin, have made much
Roadway recently, but there is an un.
dercurrent of dissatisfaction among
people generally throughout the en-
tire kingdom that is strangely signiti.
cant.
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Queen Victoria Of Sweden has be-
come totally blind in the left eye, &C.
cording to diagnosis recently made