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Winnipeg, June 21st to 25th. Two memorial booklets will be
published: one in Icelandic, by Dr. Richard Beck, Professor in
the University of North Dakota, the other in English by Presi-
dent K. K. 61afsson. Some of the special features of the con-
vention will be a public meeting at Mountain, a young peoples’
rally at the same place, and in Winnipeg a lecture by Rev. Dr.
B. B. Jonsson, pastor of First Lutheran Church, greetings from
high officials of church and state, festival services, a concert
under the direction of Alderman Paul Bardal, a public meeting
sponsored by the Women’s League of the Synod.
The half century mark has been reached. The chief ele-
ments in our celebration are gratitude to God for blessings in the
past and the prayer and hope that He may guide our footsteps
aright in the future.
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