# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_Juni 1856_S186
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Call for a General Conference of All Lutherans, etc. 186

...welfare of our Lutheran Zion will be powerfully promoted by the free exchange of views on the various interests of our Church in this land among brethren united in the faith, hereby let an invitation go out to all members of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the United States who acknowledge the unaltered Augsburg Confession as a faithful presentation of the doctrines of the divine Word, to meet with them in a free and brotherly conference on the present condition and needs of the Church in America, in the city of ——, on Wednesday, October 1 of this year.

Those who intend to take part personally in the conference shall send to any paper in which the foregoing call appears their names, together with the name of the place they consider most suitable for the conference and which should therefore be a central one — such as Columbus, Cleveland, Cincinnati, or Pittsburgh. These names will be published by the paper in question as signatures to the call, and each paper will, in due course, add to the names sent to it and first published by it, also those sent to the other papers and first published by them, so that each paper will finally give a complete list of all who intend to take part personally in the conference, and of the places which they propose for it, and every reader can determine which place has received the most votes, which will then also be the one chosen.

So far the proposal made by the Lutheran Standard.

We accordingly make, in today's number, the beginning of the publication of the call, together with the names of brethren, as signatures, and of the places proposed by them, which are already known to us, and we request all readers who intend to take part personally in the general Lutheran conference to kindly send their names, together with an indication of the place for the conference, in good time to the editors.

May the Lord of the Church, however, grant the work a blessed progress.

Call

for a general conference of all Lutherans who acknowledge the
Augsburg Confession as the confession of their faith.

The undersigned, ministers of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the United States, being convinced that the unity and welfare of our Lutheran Zion will be powerfully promoted by the free exchange of views on the various interests of our Church in this land among brethren united in the faith, hereby let an invitation go out to all