SCANDINAVIAN SOCIETIES. [Sidenote: In Denmark.] Though the pioneer Lutheran missionaries, Ziegenbalg and Plütschau, were sent to India by Denmark, missionary activity languished in Scandinavia for many years. The _Danish Missionary Society_, organized in 1821, sent missionaries to the Greenland mission and a few to the work of the Basel society in Africa. In 1862 it established missions of its own in India and Northern China. In 1913 its income was $125,000. [Sidenote: In Norway.] The _Norwegian Missionary Society_ was founded in 1842 in Stavanger and consists at the present time of about nine hundred societies. It works among the Zulus in South Africa, in Madagascar, and also in China. In 1913 its income was $234,000. The _Norwegian Church Mission_ was organized by Bishop Schreuder in 1873. Its field is in South Africa. The _Norwegian Lutheran China Mission_, organized in 1890, has an income of $62,000. [Sidenote: In Sweden.] In Sweden there are various Lutheran missionary organizations. The most important are the _Swedish National Society_, which works in East Africa and Central India, and has an income of $120,000, and the _Swedish Church Mission_ whose fields are in South Africa and East India and which has an income of $88,000. Among the smaller societies are the _Swedish Mission in China_, the _Swedish Mongol Mission_, and the _Jerusalem Association_. [Illustration: CENTRAL GIRLS SCHOOL, RAJAHMUNDRY.] [Sidenote: A Brave Girl.] One of the interesting characters in the history of Scandinavian missions was a young Finnish girl, Maria Mathsdotter, by name, who, through the preaching of the missionaries had come to understand the need of her people for the Gospel. She learned Swedish so that she might speak to the King and thereupon in 1864 set out to walk two hundred miles to Stockholm. When a few days later she started back, she carried with her enough money to build a children’s home to which Finnish children could go for Christian and some industrial instruction. As a result there are to-day a number of such homes in Finland.