Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-06-10

Kelliher-Young, Can.-Otto P.
Johnson.
Fairport, Ia. - Lawrence E.
Scandinavia. Can.-JuIius A.
Larson.
Kenora, Can.-Johannes E. Lind
berg.
Centuria, Wis.-AIbin Lindgren.
Buchanan, Can. Herbert-S.
Magney.
Busti, n. Y.-Johan F. Nelson.
Bemidji, Can.-Theodore B. Nor
dale.
Ogema, Wis.-Martin o. Olson.
Omaha, Neb.-Haiyar G. Ran
dolph.
Minneapolis, Minn.-Ernst J.
Sakrison.
Asheville, n. Y.-John F. Nord-
strand.
Gardner, Mass.-Ragnar Byren-
Jus.
haywood, Ill-Henry G. Han
son.
Army Chaplains Needed.
On conclusion of the Saturday
sessions DR.. H. A. Weller OF Phila-
deIphia, a member of the National
Lutheran commission for soldiers
and sailors welfare, announced
that President Wilson had signed
the bill providing for two addition
al chaplains for every regiment il
the American army.
That means that the Lutheran
church must furnish Immediately
20 additional chaplains," declared
Mr.. Weller. He asked the Angus
tana synod to furnish its quota
Swedish Lutherans are doing
their bit in furnishing men for the
country. Three Lutheran mothers
of the Augustana synod alone
have given IA sons to American
forces fighting for democracy
This fact was brought out Sat
urday afternoon at the sessions %
the Woman's Home and Foreign
Missionary society of the Angus
tana synod. Mrs. Emmy Evald OF
Chicago. president OF the organiza
ton, introduced Mrs. Elias Matt
son of Winthrop, Mimi, a delegate
to the convention, as the mother
Of five sons in the service. She re-
ceiYed an ovation.
Mrs c. A. Nelson, wife of the
Rev. c. a. Nelson, pastor of Ebe-
nezer Swedish Lutheran church OF
Minneapolis, was given honorable
mention as the mother of four sons
in the service. Thereupol the So
ciety resolved TO send greetings 10
Mrs. Christine Johnson OF Moline,
Ill, a third member of the mis-
sionary society, who has five sons
enlisted
To Send Out Nurses.
The missionary organization has
accepted two young women as can
didates for medical work in India.
They are Miss Hula Thelander,
Little Falls, Mimi, and Miss Ber-
tina Anderson, Denver, Colo. Miss
Anderson is a sister of Clark G.
Anderson, former commissioner of
the city of Moline. She has made
her home in Moline with her
brother for the last year, while she
attended Augustana college, and
she left only a few days ago tor
Denver to spend the summer with
her mother. The society will pay
for the medical education of these
young women, after which they
will enter the mission hospital for
women and children in Bajahmun-
dry, India. Another young wom-
an, Miss Hilda Anderson of the
Swedish Augustana church, Min
neapolis, was accepted as mission
airy nurse to China.
Two missionary programs were
held last Friday. One was under
auspices of the Woman's Mission
airy society of the First Swedish
Lutheran church, St. Paul, at
which several returned missionar-
les spoke. The other was a home
mission festival at the Emanuel
Lutheran church. Minneapolis. The
Rev. J. Z. Rydback, Swedish field
secretary of the Augustana synod,
speaking on "SynOdical Home Mis-
sions," said in part:
The Augustana synod and its
conferences have needed the Lords
command, Go to the lost sheep of
the house of Israel and have set
in operation a system OF home mis-
sionary enterprises that stretch
from coast TO coast in our country
and Canada. The congregation
which is not actively engaged ii
this work is spiritually dead.
Big Work to Be Done.
But our work is by no means
finished Only about % per cent
OF the Swedes in America have
been gathered into our congrega
tons. II we figure that 10 per
cent OF the remaining belong To
other Swedish church bodies, It
still leaves about 65 per cent with
Out church connections in this
country.
NO less than 60.5o6 members
were dropped from our -oils dur
ing the last 10 years. Something
must be done 10 retain those who
grow slack. and greater efforts
must be made TO follow up the
children whose unchurChed par
ents bring them 10 US for baptism.
We must give more generously 10
our home missions. We have
learned to give for the sake Of our