The Scandinavian Fibre in Our Social Fabric. An Address BY REV. R. A. JERNBERG At his Inauguration as Professor in the Danish-Norwegian Department on Mrs. D. K. Pearsons' Professorship Endowment in the Chicago Theological Seminary , WITH THE CHARGE, By President H. C. SIMMONS. PUBLISHED BY VOTE OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS. CHICAGO: P. F. Pettibone & Co., Printers , 1895....

The services of the inauguration of Professors R. A. Jernberg and W. B. Chamberlain took place on Monday evening, April 15, 1895, in the First Congregational Church, Chicago, Ill. The President of the Seminary, Rev. Franklin W. Fisk, D.D., LL.D., presided. The Program was as follows: 1. Organ Voluntary, "Benediction." 2. Te Deum in B minor, Solos, Quartet and Chorus. 3. Invocation and Reading of Scripture, by Rev. G. S. F. Savage, D.D. 4. Hymn, "I Love Thy Kingdom, Lord." 5. Declaration of Faith

Professor Jernberg : It is with pleasure I am permitted to give to you to-night a few words of what is technically called a "charge." Perhaps more than any other I am responsible for setting in motion the forces that caused you to come to this seminary for your last year's course of theological training, and begin while yet a theological student the work of instruction in the department over which to-night you are inaugurated a professor in this Seminary. Two summers we had you in North Dakota,

A NATION IN THE LOOM. THE SCANDINAVIAN FIBRE IN OUR SOCIAL FABRIC. The analysis of the elements that enter into the composition of nations, and the effect of their combinations, is one of the most fascinating studies in universal history. The loom of time has been weaving garments for this old world of ours, and the nations of the earth have clothed him with the glory of their sons and daughters, as long as the fibre of their manhood or womanhood could stand the wear. When age and use have worn