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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
Departmenton 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 FirstCongregational 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 wordsof what is technically called a "charge."
Perhaps more than any other I am responsible for setting in motion theforces that caused you to come to this seminary for your last year'scourse of theological training, and begin while yet a theologicalstudent the work of instruction in the department over which to-nightyou are inaugurated a professor in this Seminary.
Two summers we had you in North Dakota, while yet a student intheology, and we feel a little proud that our young State proves sogood a place to discover and develop the qualities that make a goodprofessor in a Theological Seminary. You are the second we have fittedfor such a position, as Professor Gillette o