Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-06-09

council, was reported by Or. c. W.
Foss Of Rock Island Night schools |
are maintained in the India heid, !
among them a high school at Pedda-
pur The center of the India mission |
work Is at Rajahmundry, where
training school for boys and girls
central school are located. A hospi- |
tai for women and children is main
tanned at Rajahmundry in charge OF
Dr. Betty Nelson.
This fall nine new missionaries will
be added to the present force They
are Rev S. l.. Blomgren and Rev. and
Mrs G.. X. Andeen Of Rock Island;
Sisters Anna Sandberg and Frida
Thor OF the deaconess institute at
Omaha, Neb; the Misses Hattie john
son, Iona Bonner and Margaret Holtx-
hauser of the Mary Drexel home of
Philadelphia, Pa, and DR.. Grace Ilahl-
Baksh, a native girl of India who has
spent several years in this country
studying medicine. Three mission
aries are maintained in Japan and six
in Porto Rico During the year $685.
600 has been spent by the synod in
these fields.
After two entire days spent in ex-
ecutive session the Augustana synod
ministerium yesterday voted to pass
ali 81 candidates for the ministry who
have been under examination. The
ordination service, which takes place
Sunday afternoon in the First Luth-
eran church, is one Of the most i'm
pressive services in the Lutheran
church. One of the candidates to be
ordained has accepted a call to Pc
king, China. Another is going to Ra-
jahmunfry, India The other "a will
supply congregations in Canada and
| the United States.
The conditions for ordination to the
ministry in the Augustana synod were
changed yesterday upon recommends
ton Of the synodical council. An
amendment to the constitution passed
which will require all candidates for
the ministry to take their entire di-
vinity course at the synod's own theo-
logical seminary at Rock Island.
Delegates felt that the change was
a necessary one because Of the pecu-
liar conditions obtaining in a church
using two languages. The period of
transition from Swedish to English
calls for bi-lingual preaching in a
growing number of churches, and the
seminary at Rock Island is the only
divinity school in the country which
is equipped to give the proper prep
aration. A strong sentiment has arts
en- in opposition to the tendency of
many divinity students to pursue their
!. training in other seminaries while
; their purpose is to enter the ministry
in the Augustana synod.
Luther Anniversary Next Year.
Next year will be the 400th anniver-
sary of the Lutheran reformation. In
common with all Lutheran churches
throughout the world and many other
Protestant bodies, the Augustana
synod is making elaborate prepare
t tons to commemorate the great quad
f ricentennial in fitting manner.
r The plan proposed sets aside day
l at next years meeting of the SYNOD
r for a Luther Commemoration. More
y elaborate celebrations are TO follow
e in the fall when the synod hopes t.
Y bring to this country Archbishop Ma
e than Soederblom of Upsala as repre-
l. SENTATIVE VI lut I'll Vi iONtu6l
e 1t is proposed to hold the synodiCa
n meeting at jamestown, n. Y, in June
while the fall celebration would b
l. held in October at Augustana college
s. Rock Island.
r One feature suggested by the com
IS mittee on arrangements is a gran
reformation concert when a refCrma
=, ton cantata would be rendered by
l. great chorus of picked voices fror
l. the various colleges and the churc
It choirs in the synod. F. W. Olson Q
= the Augustana Book concern has bee
II asked to write the libretto of the can
n tata in both English and Swedish, an
S Professor J. Victor Bergquist of tn
: Augustana conservatory will compos
d the score and the orchestration. MI
d Olson is writer and poet of som
It note in the Augustana synod. MI
: Bergquist is the composer of the ora
G torio "Golgotha" and many mino
pieces for organ, piano and voice
n The words of the cantata rendered a
h the 50th anniversary of the synod il
Il 1910 were written by Mr. Olson.