In the Name of God. Amen.
On this spot and in a small frame church known as the Norwegian Lutheran Church of Clinton, Rock County, Wisconsin, gathered on the Fifth Day of June, 1860, the following named ministers of the gospel:
L. P. Esbuörn · T. N. Hasselquist
P. Anderson · O. Andrewsen
O. C. T. Andreen · Erland Carlson
Jonas Swensson · M. F. Hakanson
O. J. Hatlestad · P. A. Cederstam
Erik Norelius · A. Andreen
P. Asbjörnsen · L. H. Norem
P. H. Pedersen · P. Beckman
Peter Carlson · J. P. C. Boren
together with these laymen:
P. Palmquist · B. Olson
Chr. Newhouse · E. Dahlgren
Swan Olson · J. Nyman
S. Gabrielson · John Jonason
J. Erlander · C. J. Hansen
J. Engberg · F. H. Osmunsen
and did
then and there organize the Scandinavian Evangelical Lutheran Auqustana Synod, from 1894 known as the Evangelical Lutheran Auqustana Synod. This marker was erected by the said Synod on the Fifth Day of June, 1930, the Norwegian Lutheran Church of Clinton, Rock County, Wisconsin, 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 pledge unto the Lord our faithfulness and that of our offspring for days yet 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.
Soli Deo Gloria.
Marker can be reached from South Bergen Road north of East State Line Road.
Courtesy hmdb.org
