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- On this spot and in a small frame
church known as the Norwegian Lutheran Church of Clinton, Rock
County, Wis., gathered on the 5th day of June, 1860, the following
named ministers of the gospel:
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L. P. Espjörn |
T. N. Hasselquist |
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P. Anderson |
O. Andrewson |
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O. C. T. Andreen |
Erland Carlson |
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Jonas Swensson |
M. F. Hakanson |
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O. J. Hatlestad |
P. A. Gederstam |
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Erik Norelius |
A. Andreen |
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P. Asbjornsen |
L. H. Norem |
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P. H. Pedersen |
P. Beckman |
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Peter Carlson |
J. P. C. Boren |
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- Together with these laymen:
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P. Palmquist |
B. Olson |
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Chr. Newhouse |
E. Dahlgren |
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Swan Olson |
J. Nyman |
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S. Gabrielson |
John Jonason |
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J. Erlander |
C. J. Hansen |
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J. Enberg |
F. H. Osmunsen |
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- and did then organize the Scandinavian
Evangelical Lutheran Augustana Synod, from 1894 known as the
Evangelical Lutheran Augustana Synod. This marker was erected
by the said Synod on the fifth day of June, 1930, the Norwegian
Lutheran Church of Clinton, Rock County, Wis., graciously donating
in perpetuity the site for this monument, to commemorate the
goodness of God to the early fathers and to their descendants
during the past seventy years, and to come humbly owning our
sins and shortcomings of the past, we plead that it might be
given unto the Holy Spirit to keep us in the true faith, to cause
our love to the Kingdom of God greatly to increase and our efforts
for the same continually to multiply.
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- Soli Deo Gloria.
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