"The Other Swedes"
~ Honoring Them and Remembering Them ~ The Smoky Valley Writers ~
Rev. Eugene K. Nelson and the Bethany Home Writers
~ Honoring Them and Remembering Them ~ The Smoky Valley Writers ~
Rev. Eugene K. Nelson and the Bethany Home Writers
"O Bethany Home"
Grateful thanks to Bethany Village for allowing SWEDES to share these words of the Bethany Home Writers
(poem located on inside back of cover)
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O BETHANY HOME
O Bethany Home, O Bethany Home,
A Home of grace and beauty.
O Bethany Home, O Bethany Home,
We now with joy salute thee!
A Home that’s known to be the best,
A place of life, a place of rest,
Where glad hearts sing and praises ring
To Christ who ever is our King.
A Home on earth along the way
Sweet refuge gives from day to day.
Your helping hands, your caring hearts
Where love you kindle and impart.
O Bethany Home, O Bethany Home,
With heritage of splendor,
In love and trust we celebrate
In triumph song remember.
For 75 years, through joy and tears
You’ve kept your banner flying
Supplying Hope, and Faith, and Love--
These blessings flow undying !
In nineteen-eleven, you began
A walk of faith in ministry.
O Bethany Home, O Bethany Home,
We now with joy salute thee!
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Tune: 'O Tannenbaum'
Words written by-
Elsie Adell
Bethany Home Staff Member
September 1986
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Grateful thanks to Bethany Village for allowing SWEDES to share these words of the Bethany Home Writers
(poem located on inside back of cover)
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O BETHANY HOME
O Bethany Home, O Bethany Home,
A Home of grace and beauty.
O Bethany Home, O Bethany Home,
We now with joy salute thee!
A Home that’s known to be the best,
A place of life, a place of rest,
Where glad hearts sing and praises ring
To Christ who ever is our King.
A Home on earth along the way
Sweet refuge gives from day to day.
Your helping hands, your caring hearts
Where love you kindle and impart.
O Bethany Home, O Bethany Home,
With heritage of splendor,
In love and trust we celebrate
In triumph song remember.
For 75 years, through joy and tears
You’ve kept your banner flying
Supplying Hope, and Faith, and Love--
These blessings flow undying !
In nineteen-eleven, you began
A walk of faith in ministry.
O Bethany Home, O Bethany Home,
We now with joy salute thee!
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Tune: 'O Tannenbaum'
Words written by-
Elsie Adell
Bethany Home Staff Member
September 1986
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Published 1986, 65 pages
Grateful thanks to Bethany Home for the gift of this most historical book of 1986, to be used in SWEDES, 2018.
In 1907,
the idea of a "Home" was first endorsed by the Kansas Conference of the Augustana Synod held in Marquette, Kansas, as notated in Chapter II.
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The Bethany Home Story
was created by the
"Bethany Home Writers"
1986
under the leadership of
Rev. Eugene K. Nelson and Administrator Bill Carlson
celebrating the
75th Anniversary of the Home in 1911,
the year when residents first arrived
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The Bethany Home Story
was created by the
"Bethany Home Writers"
1986
under the leadership of
Rev. Eugene K. Nelson and Administrator Bill Carlson
celebrating the
75th Anniversary of the Home in 1911,
the year when residents first arrived
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* * * Rev. Eugene K. Nelson 1914-2000 Board Member since 1970 and Editor "The Bethany Home Story" |
* * * Mr. Bill Carlson 1930-2018 Lindsborg Bethany Home Administrator 1974 - 1994 |
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> The Bethany Home Residents of 1986 <
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"Let Us Remember Them"
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