# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_Mai 1856_S148
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148 A General Conference of the Lutheran Ministers in America.

...concerned salvation, but only the outward church fellowship — that both are received into the church through baptism. The same holds true here as well. —

(From the "Lutheran Herald.")
Reply to the Inquiry Contained in the January
Number.

In the January number of this year, "Lehre und Wehre" poses the following
public inquiry: "Would it not, toward the striving for the eventual
realization of a united Evangelical Lutheran Church
in North America, be beneficial and conducive for members
of the various synods calling themselves Lutheran, which
acknowledge and confess the unaltered Augsburg Confession
of 1530, without reservation, as the pure and faithful expression
of the doctrine of Holy Scripture and of their own
faith, to meet together from time to time?" — At
a meeting on March 17, 1856, in the English Evangelical Lutheran
St. James Church here, the Lutheran ministers in and around
New York expressed their heartfelt joy over this inquiry and are, for their part,
gladly willing to contribute their share toward such a union. They
hope that all faithful Lutherans of our country will welcome this offer of our
brethren from Missouri and will contribute according to their strength toward the realization of this great
idea. For a long time already the Lutheran
ministers in and around New York have viewed and lamented, with great sorrow, the fragmentation and discord among
our fellow believers here, and therefore they ardently long for the
great day to come when the faithful bearers of our banner will join hands, brotherly and united.
By resolution of the majority of the New York Ministers' Conference, this is
hereby made known to the public.
Friedr. W. T. Steimle, Secretary.
New York, March 17, 1856.

(From the "Lutheran Herald.")
A General Conference of the Lutheran Ministers in
America.

Surely many a reader of this paper has already, in recent years, followed from
year to year the proceedings — even if only in extract — of the
various conferences of Lutheran pastors of Germany