DOCTRINE JYEAR BIBLE BIOGRAPHY 3 YEAR 21 2 YEAR HISTORY BIBLE BIBLE STORY YEAR It will be of advantage to examine the excellence of the method and matter, together with lowness of prices of this series, when Sunday School Literature is under consideration. Subscriptions may begin any time, but quarterly publications are not furnished for a less period than three months. but at same rate as by the year. Samples and descriptive circulars will cheerfully be sent upon application. Order should be accompanied by check, postal or express money order, or if in small amounts, unused postage stamps will be accepted in payment. General Council Publication House, CHAS, B. OPP, Manager. Irving College for Young Women, Mechanicsburg, Pa. Proceedings, Essays and Debates AT THE FIRST General Conference of Lutherans in America, HELD IN Philadelphia, Dec. 27-29, 1898. 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CO. 33 3 SILVERSMITHS 3 3 3 ECCLESIASTICAL DEPARTMENT Broadway & 19th Street, NEW YORK FO Of the Church-By the Church-For the Church Luther League Review Swedish Genius Recognized Statue of John Ericsson Unveiled BY LUTHER M. KUHNS ORTY-ONE years ago a cheese box on a raft" saved the United States Navy from utter destruction. It was even more than the savior of the navy, for it furnished the idea from which was developed the splendid modern battle-ship that did such excellent service in the SpanishAmerican war. The credit for the construction of the Monitor that on March 9, 1862, decisively defeated the Merrimac, belongs to John Ericsson, born in Langbanshyttan, Varmland, Sweden, July 31, 1803. But Captain Ericsson's title to fame does not rest alone upon the Monitor. He built the first steam fire-engine. and he devised and introduced the screw as a substitute for the paddle-wheel for the propulsion of steam vessels. He was the one to introduce forced draught on steamships from an independent engine; and he was also the first to place the engines of steam vessels wholly below deck. By these various inventions he revo the army, where he became a captain. In 1826 he resigned from the army and, in search of better opportunities for the development of his inventive genius, under the advice of his King, it is said, Ericsson went to England. Ericsson was a wizard of invention. He built a locomotive in competition with Ste venson's "Rocket' in 1829. The propeller was his invention, and through the failure of his company he found himself imprisoned as a bankrupt for debt. But it is chiefly because of his construction of the Monitor that Ericsson's name is venerated in our country today. It is not surprising that this Swedish genius, who even in England found the Americans as his backers, should be honored by a splendid monument which- was unveiled in New York, August 1. This remodelled statue of John Ericsson was made to take the place of the old one in Battery Park. The new statue stands in the center of the square, and while this pedestal is the same, Mr. Hartley, the sculptor, at his own expense, had the metal recast. It differs greatly from the old one; for example, it is noticeable that in the new statue Ericsson holds a model of the "Monitor" in his left hand. Born 100 years ago, July 31st lutionized both mercantile and naval construction and gave to man a mastery of the ocean such as he never had before. He was the son of a miner. Early in life he learned the blessings of work, and knew its value. The meager educational opportunities of his day were used to the greatest advantage. He developed skill in drawing and naturally drifted into architectural drafting and engine-planning. He entered The unveiling took place in the presence of the officials of the city, representatives of the army and navy, and thousands of Swedes. Chairman Lundgren, in behalf of the sculptor, handed over the statue to Park Commissioner Young, who in turn presented it to Mayor Low. As Mr. Young's speech ended Miss Rachael Hartley, daughter of the sculptor, pulled the rope unveiling the statue, the bands played the Swedish air and the “Dolphin," anchored over by Ellis Island, boomed out a national salute of 21 guns, running up the Swedish flag. In accepting the statue Mayor Seth Low said that it was a singular coincidence that a boat named the "Seth Low," named for his grandfather, had towed the "Monitor" down to her fateful battle. The religious services of the occasion were in charge of Rev. Maurice Stolpe, pastor of the Gustavus Adolphus Church, East Twentysecond street, New York. Indorses the Luther League In the Augustana Journal the editor, Rev. S. A. Brandelle, has this to say: "For us as Lutherans the Luther League is doing a profitable work. Our people are beginning to realize it, too. The educational feature of this League is especially to be commended. Its General Secretary, Rev. Luther M. Kuhns of Omaha is a good man and excellently adapted for the work in which he has engaged. We be-speak for him the sympathy and active co-operation of all Lutherans, no matter to what Synod they belong. If the work of the League is taken up and pushed earnestly by us for the next ten years we shall in that time see great results from this work. Deaconesses and Their Work. DR. J. F. OHL [This article, with the appended table on the next page, takes the space usually occupied by the monthly comments on our Lutheran Calendar. Next month's issue of the REVIEW will therefore contain comments on items of both August and September. Every month of the year has Calendar items which will find new meaning and interest by your referring to the valuable table in this number. Be sure to preserve it, therefore, for future use, and take time to examine it closely in every detail. It is condensed from the official publication of the Kaiserswerth Union. - LIT. SEC'Y.] TH HE Church from the beginning had a female as well as a male diaconate as a part of its congregational organization. All the evidence in the case goes to show that it was an established and recognized office in the Church; that it spread everywhere with the extension of the Church; that the women deacons had the same services to perform as the male deacons, except that they devoted themselves chiefly to their own sex, and did not preach and baptize; that much the same qualifications were required of them as of the male deacons; and that probably already in the days of the Apostles, and certainly at a period but little later, they were set apart to the office, like the male deacons, by prayer and the imposition of hands. The office reached its highest development during the fourth century. History informs us that toward the close of this century there were 40 deaconesses at work in the one large congregation of Chrysostom at Constantinople, among them the noble Olympias. But as the faith began to decline, as the holy love which consumed the first Christians by degrees waxed cold; as hierarchical principles and the doctrine of merit by good works more and more gained the ascendency, the diaconate in its primitive biblical and apostolical sense and intention likewise began to decay. By and by the male deacons served only as assistants to the priest at the altar: and by the ninth century in the Church of the West, and the thirteenth century in the Church of the East, the female diaconate had practically disappeared, and in place of deaconesses we find nuns. It was the Reformation that laid the foundation and prepared the way for the modern revival of the female diaconate. The restoration of the doctrine of justification by faith alone, besides liberating souls from the delusion of work righteousness, likewise again put upon its right scriptural basis the work of mercy as the fruit of a living faith. the outward expression of the faith that worketh by love! Nevertheless, the Reformation itself accomplished but little in this field beyond laying down the right principles. The religious wars growing out of the Reformatory movement, especially the Thirty Years' War, the union of Church and State, the period of dead orthodoxy, and finally Rationalism, were all unfavorable to the development of the Church's benevolent activities; and not until this century did these activities assume a well-organized form upon the Gospel principles enunciated by the Reformers. Of all the agencies to-day employed in the work of the so-called Inner Mission, none is |