Legacy
Many Haugeans launched industrial action, such as mills, shipyards, paper mills, textile industry and printing. They had often worked their way up to prosperity in a short time, a fruit of Haugeans diligence, economic enterprise and frugality. Three members of the constitutional assembly in Eidsvoll belonged to his movement.
Because the preaching of Hauge coincided with the years during which many Norwegians were migrating to America, the Haugean influence on Lutheranism in America has been considerable. Within the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, the Hauge Synod, the Eielsen Synod and the Lutheran Free Church were all indications of that influence.
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