Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-06-07
READY FOR THE
SYNOD OPENING
Fifty Seventh Session Of Augustana
Body Begins at Galesburg
This Evening.
TAKE Up BUSINESS TOMORROW
Twenty.SK Candidates for Ministry
Examined and Ordination Takes
Place Sunday.
TAKE Up BUSINESS TOMORROW
BY REV. f. Z. RYDEN.
Especial to The Argus. J

BY REV. Z. Z. RYDEN.
Especial to The Argus.)
Galesburg, Ill, June With four
hundred delegates in attendance. the
9th annual convention of the Angus
tana synod commenced yesterday AT
this place. The entire day was devot-
ed to the examination of candidates for
the ministry, 26 young men who have
completed their divinity course at
Augustana College and Theological
seminary appearing before the cleri
cal delegates in executive session. The
examination of candidates was re-
sumed this morning, and will be con-
tinued throughout today. The formal
opening of the synod occurs tonight,
when Dr. G. A. Brandelle of Denver,
Col, vice president of the synod, will
preach the synodical sermon.
The candidates who are being ex-
amined Tor ordination and the charges
to which they have been called, fol-
low:
Gustav X. Andreen, Rajahmundry,
India
l..
c. E. BergQuist, Chicago.
John Billdt, Turlock, Cal.
Efram Ceder, Haxtum. Col
Otto Eklund, Edberg, Canada.
Albert Erickson. Assaria, Kan.
William Frendberg, White Plain,
".
Oscar Gustafson. Elbow Lake, MINI.
Sigurd Hanson, Houtzdale, Pa.
Hugo Haterius, Fort Worth, Tex.
Anton Lundeen, Peking, China.
Carl Odell. Clinton, Iowa.
Carl H. Olson, Wilton. n. D.
Rudolph Peterson, Maple Plain,
MINI.
Theodore Hjerpe, Anacertes, Wash.
Walton kempe, Creston, Iowa.
Arthur Knock, Forest Lake. MINI.
Martin Swanson. Newport, R. l.
Werner Swanson, Iron Mountain,
Mich.
G. M. Thimell, Highwood, III.
c. G. Carlson, Pine Grove, Mimi.
p. D. Engstrand, Hutchinson, kans.
Walter Tillberg, Moline, Ill.
J. P. Warner, Mashalltown, Iowa.
A. Wattman, Canada.
The executive sessions of the cleri-
cal delegates are being presided over
by DR.. L. A Johnston of st. Paul,
Mimi. president of the synod. All
candidates for ordination who pass
the examination will be ordained next
Sunday in the First Lutheran church
Ask Return of Football.
This years convention promises to
be a lively and important one Re
ports will be heard from all the synod
ical institutions, including Augustana
college and Augustana Book concern
The ministerial pension fund will also
occupy the attention of the synod. The
football question, too, refuses to be
ldowned, and threatens to create the
usual furore in the convention.
strong petition from the students OF
EAugustana college. Gustavus Adol-
plus college and Upsala college asks
that football be given a three-year
trial under faculty control. The exec
utive committee of the synod will rec
ommend that the matter be postponed
another year, until the synod can as
certain the stand of the various college
boards on the question. Football ad-
vocates, however, are impatient over
the prospect of further postponement
and merry fight is in prospect.
The synod is meeting this year or
| historic ground. The First Lutheran
church here was organized in 1851
nine years before the organization o.
! the Augustana synod. The organizer
was Rev. l.. P Esbjorn, the first min
| lister who came from Sweden to labor
among the Swedish immigrants in this
country. DR.. T. n. Hasselquist was
called as the first pastor, and for /.
/ years he served the congregation. Or
June II, 1856, DR.. Hasselquist ISSUED
the first number of Augustana, the of
| fetal organ of the synod, and for 3;
years he remained as its editor. Tht
house in which DR.. Hasselquist liveC
during his pastorate, and from which
| he issued the first number of Angus
tana, is still preserved. A Hasselquis
memorial service is to be held in thu
First church Friday.
| The convention this year is thu
fourth which has been held in thu
First church. The first meeting wa
| held here in September, 1872. In June
1883, the synod convened here again
and a third time in June, 1898. Thu
general council, which met in Rock Is
! land and Moline last fall, also me
here in 1875, when the famous Gales
burg rule" was adopted
Trinity English Lutheran church
which is entertaining the synod joint,
with the First church, was organized
in 1906, being an outgrowth of tn
elder congregation. 1t has enjoyed ;
phenomenal growth and now rank
first in point of size among the Eng
lish churches of the synod. It's pres
ent pastor is Rev. c. NJ. Olander. TIL
pastor of the First church is Rev F. A
Johnson. who is also president 0