[254] _History of Fillmore County, Minnesota_, 346, 463,--a Norwegian school for one year in a private house, then an English school; Sparks, _History of Winneshiek County, Iowa_, 16-17. [255] For a discussion of the Bennett Law in Wisconsin, see pp. 167 ff. [256] _Beretning om det syttende Aarsmöde for den Forenede norsk lutherske Kirke i Amerika_, 1906,--"Parochialraporter for Aaret 1905." The church schools are more commonly a sort of summer vacation school supported either by the persons whose children attend, or at the expense of the whole congregation; in them are taught the language of the parents and the preacher, the church catechism, and something of church history; sometimes especial attention, as in the case of the Danish Grundtvigian "high schools," is given to keeping alive the traditions of the European kingdom from which sprang the immigrants. The teacher of both the language and the doctrines of religion is customarily a student in some theological seminary of the denomination to which the congregation belongs. The Lutherans have kept up these vacation schools more consistently than any other Scandinavian church. The report of the parochial schools of the United Norwegian Lutheran Church for 1905 showed that on the average almost thirty days were devoted to the church school in each of the 750 congregations reporting.[257] [257] "Sammendrag af Parochialraporter", _Beretning om det syttende Aarsmöde for den Forenede norsk lutherske Kirke i Amerika_, 1906, LVI; J. J. Skordalsvold, in Nelson, _History of the Scandinavians_, I, 241. The clergy are mainly active in this mild paternalism, upon which the younger people not infrequently look with disfavor, for to the second generation it appears an unnecessary perpetuation of an un-American custom, a scheme for emphasizing peculiarities and differences rather than a means of hastening the process of amalgamation. Sometimes the younger men have revolted and broken entirely with the Lutheran church, identifying themselves with American congregations, or drifting out on the wide sea of religious indifference.