A Nation in the Loom: The Scandinavian Fibre in Our Social Fabric: An Address by Rev. R. A. JernbergJernberg, R. A. (Reinert August)
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A Nation in the Loom: The Scandinavian Fibre in Our Social Fabric: An Address by Rev. R. A. Jernberg
Jernberg, R. A. (Reinert August)
Scandinavians -- United States
We are not deceived by our desires or our hopes; we have no thought
that our labors will overturn nations in a day, nor that on us is
laid the task of setting all things right. But having come into
the fellowship of the great needs of these people, having seen the
possibilities for their development along all the lines of a better
and higher life, we rejoice that to us it is given into each of these
factors of the school, of the press and of the Church of Christ, to
throw the influence of an institution like this not only, but the
moral force of the churches behind it as well. Perhaps our share in
the shaping and moulding of the people for whom we work may not be
large, nor greatly esteemed. But we have the satisfaction of giving
expression both in word and deed to the conviction of our hearts, that
no other power on earth can lift a people into the fullest and richest
experiences of life, political, intellectual, social or spiritual, like
the Gospel of Jesus Christ; for it is the power of God unto salvation
unto everyone that believeth, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.
And He when He is lifted up shall draw all men unto Him.
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