The first known white-faced visitor to come to this continent, Leif Ericson, being converted to Christianity, was so eager to carry the gospel to others that he brought a priest back with him from Scandinavia to Greenland, whence he himself went forth later in search of further shores. Nearly a thousand years later there has come to America a primate among Scandinavian priests, Dr. Nathan Soederblom, the distinguished head of the Church in Sweden and Pro-Chancellor of the University of Upsala.

He will be welcomed, not merely as an ecclesiastical visitor and by those of his faith and racial origin, but as one of the great characters of the Old World, where he is popularly known, it is said, as "the best-loved man in Northern Europe." He has no temporal power of office, but he has a real temporal as well as spiritual power of personality and of scholarship which has been felt throughout a considerable stretch of the earth almost as wide as the reach of his Viking forebears, who penetrated not only westward to the edges of America but eastward and southward to the further shores of the Euxine.

He has made a unique appeal for the League of Nations, which he characterized at a public meeting a few days ago as a child of "prodigious possibilities and a great soul," though "a cripple" that has been repudiated by its father. Will the father not recognize his duties, he asks, and help to bring up the child. He will find that the United States denies the imported paternity. But he expresses suggestively and courageously a European attitude of which we ought to take note. New York Times