Note: Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See https://archive.org/details/nationinloomscan00jern A NATION IN THE LOOM. 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. SERVICES OF INAUGURATION. 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, by Professor Jernberg. 6. Charge to Professor Jernberg, by President H. C. Simmons. 7. Inaugural Prayer, by Professor G. N. Boardman, D.D., LL.D. 8. Address, by Professor Jernberg. 9. Hymn, "America." 10. Declaration of Faith, by Professor Chamberlain. 11. Charge to Professor Chamberlain, by Rev. James Gibson Johnson, D.D. 12. Inaugural Prayer, by President Franklin W. Fisk, D.D., LL.D. 13. Address, by Professor Chamberlain. 14. Anthem, "Send out Thy Light." 15. Benediction. 16. Postlude, "Prelude and Fugue." THE CHARGE. _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, while yet a student in theology, and we feel a little proud that our young State proves so good a place to discover and develop the qualities that make a good professor in a Theological Seminary. You are the second we have fitted for such a position, as Professor Gillette of Hartford was called directly from a North Dakota pastorate at Grand Forks. We feel like saying to our friends: Send us the men for our churches and we will send you back professors for your Theological Seminaries, Presidents for colleges, State Superintendents for the Home Missionary Society, and for our Sunday School Society; for we have furnished men for all these positions.