Rock Island Argus., 1916-06-12
TWENTY-SEVEN
Give OVER LIVES
TOCOD'SSERVICE
cousecration Service is Conducted at
ealesbury in Connection With the
Augustana Synod.
,NNENSR THR0NG Is PRESENT
Young Wen Receive Commissions to
Preach in Lutheran Church at
Various Points.
IMMENSE THRONG Is PRESENT
BY REV. F. f. RYDEN.

Calesburg. ILL.,, June 12-Twenty-
seven were Consecrated to the work
~ the holy ministry yesterday after
noon. The service, which has held in
the First Lutheran church. was by far
The most impressive of the present
convention OF the Augustana synod
and was witnessed by an immense
throns which taxed the capacity of
the large church auditorium. Two of
the men ordained will serve in foreign
6elds. The remainder have accepted
calls to places in the United States
and Canada.
The men who we're commissioned to
nreach in the Lutheran church and the
plsces where they have been assigned
follow;
Gustav X Andeen. Rajahmundry, In
dia
Ture V. Anderson. Missoula, Mont.
c, Z. Bergquist, Chicago.
John Bildt TurloC. Cal.
Ffraim Ceder, Haxtum. Col
Otto Eklund. Edberg, Alta, Canada
Albert Erickson, Assaria. kas.
william Frendberg, White Plains,
n ].
Oscar Gustafson, Elbow Lake. MINI.
Sigurd Hanson. Houtzdale, Pa.
Hugo Haterius, Fort Worth. Texas.
Anton Lundeen. Peking. China.
Carl Odell. Clinton, Iowa.
Carl H. Olson. Wilton, \. D.
Rudolph Peterson, Maple Plain,
MINI
Theodore Hierpe, Anacortes. Wash.
Walton kempe. Creston, Iowa
Arthur Knock. Forest Lake. MINI.
Martin Swanson. Newport, R. l.
Werner Swanson, Iron Mountain,
Mich.
G. N. Thimell. Highwood, III,
c. c. Carlson. Pine Grove, MINI.
Paul D. Engstrand. Hutchinson. has.
Walter Tillberg. Moline,
J. P. Warner, Marshalltown, Iowa,
A. Wattmann. Canada
Preceded BY the officers of the synod
and 81 ministers appointed to assist in
the ordination, the candidates marched
down the center aisle and seated them
selves in d semi-ciTCIe in the chancel
Professor Adolph Fiult Of Augustana
seminary. Rock Island. preached the
Swedish ordination sermon, and Rev.
Josejh A Anderson Of BoxhOlm, Iowa,
delivered the English address. Then
followed the impressive ordination
ceremony. All the candidates knelt
before the altar after they had an
swered the questions put to them by
the president Of the synod. A scrip
tural charge was then read to each of
them. whereupon the 81 pastors con-
cluded the act OF ordination by the
laying on of hands while repeating the
Lords prayer
So many persons desiring 10 witness
the ordination ceremony were turned
away that an overflow meeting under
the auspices of the W0man's Home and
Foreign Missionary society was held in
Trinity English Lutheran church. It
was addressed by DR.. julius Lincoln
Of jamestown, y. Y. Other impressive
services were held during the day in
both churches. Holy communion was
celebrated al the morning services. Dr.
L. +. Bartholomew of Rock Island and
DR.. c. J. Petri OF Minneapolis preached
in Trinity church. while DR.. G. A. An
derson Of Mount Vernon, Wash. and
DR.. c. J, (. Hasterius Of Cleburne
kas., a former pastor of the First
church, occupied the pulpit in that
church.
Memorial services for the five pas
tors who have died during the past
year were held in the evening in both
churches. Dr.. J. TelIeen Of Superior
Wis, and Rev. J. ". Johnson Of Rock
lord, Ill. were the speakers in Trinity
church, while DR.. P A Mattson of Can
non Falls, Mimi. and Or. V. J. Teng-
~ald Of Winnipeg. Canada, spoke in
me First church. The pastors who
nave passed away during the year are
d Aellander, G. A Hultkrans. Car
,maiieen, F. A. Engstrand and E. More
Words of Counsel Given.
"A service Of more than usual soIem-