Missionsvennen

Month: January 2023

Minutes of the Proceedings of the Pastoral Conference at Decorah, Iowa, from October 22nd to 29th, 1884

The library of St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota was kind enough to scan a copy of this important document for me. It is not available electronically anywhere that I am aware of so I will upload it here. The Norwegian title is “Prøtøkøl over Prestekonferencens Forhandlinger i Decorah, Iowa, fra 22de til 29de Oktober 1884.” It documents a key meeting in the Predestination Controversy when the two sides came together to hash out the issues.

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Schmidt’s “Confession concerning some disputed points of doctrine”

Back during the Predestination controversy in the Norwegian Lutheran Synod, Professor Schmidt and the “Anti-Missourians” produced a Confession that they named “Bekjendelse angående nogle omtvistede Lærepunkter” or “Confession concerning some disputed points of doctrine.”

In reading all kinds of literature about those days, I could not locate the full text of this Confession, but I did locate it at the Concordia Historical Institute. Here is the text, untranslated for the moment:

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Hans Jakob Grøgaard Krog was born in Flekkefjord, Norway. After having obtained his master’s degree, he took up the study of theology but discontinued this, however, and became a teacher in Christiania and later in Trondhjem. Rev. J.A. Ottesen had often written in Norwegian papers concerning the scarcity of clergymen among Norwegians in America, and this led Krog to take up the study of theology anew. In 1872 he emigrated to America and was ordained into the ministry in 1874. His first call took him to Minneapolis, but a year later found him in Menominee, Wis., where he remained until 1890, when the Church Council elected him to a professorship at Luther College, where he remained for six years. He taught Norwegian, Religion, Latin, and French, besides taking, together with his wife, a very active part in the church work in and about Decorah. Rev. Krog was intensely interested in mission work, especially in the seamen’s mission. In 1902 he resigned his pastorate, which he had held at Ossian since 1896, in order to devote all his time to the mission work. In this capacity he labored unselfishly to the last. In the death of Rev. Krog the cause of Christian education has lost one of its warmest friends and supporters and one whose labors and influence have promoted and strengthened the highest and best elements in the field of education.

Hans Jakob Grøgaard Krog

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