# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1849_S82
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The German Evangelical Lutheran Trinity congregation of the
unaltered Augsburg Confession in New York, through which its pastor,
Th. J. Brohm, became a voting member.

The Evangelical Lutheran congregation in Frankenlust, Mich.,
through which its pastor, F. Sievers, became a voting member.

The following pastors, whose congregations already belong to the
synod, were received as voting synod members:

L. W. Habel, pastor of the congregations in and near Pomeroy,
Meigs County, Ohio.

F. Nützel, pastor of the St. Thomas congregation in Harrison
Township, Van Wert County, Ohio.

G. Schaller, pastor of the Ev. Lutheran congregation in
Philadelphia, Pa.

In addition, the following were received as advisory members:

J. G. Wolf,    } teachers of the Fort Wayne congregation.
A. L. Zagel,   }
A. Fritze, assistant preacher in Allen and Adams Counties, Ind.
E. M. Baierlein, missionary at Bethany, Saginaw County, Mich.
F. Hoffmann, pastor in Schaumburg, Ill.
J. G. Kunz, pastor in Indianapolis, Ind.
J. Bernreuther, pastor in Mishawaka, Ind.
J. F. F. Winter, teacher of the Altenburg congregation.
E. O. Wolff, pastor in Perryville, Mo.
C. H. S. Buttermann, pastor in Chester, Randolph County, Ill.
R. Lange, pastor in St. Charles, Mo.


Exclusion and Withdrawal of Synod Members.

Since, as is evident from the annual report, the president had
excluded the former pastor F. W. Pöschke from the synod after the
close of last year's synodical sessions, the president now wished to know
whether the synod believed that, in doing so — as Mr. Pöschke accused
him — he had exceeded his authority as president and acted against the
synodical constitution, or whether it had not rather been his duty to act
in this way under the pressing circumstances.

After lengthy and many-sided discussion and examination of the
matter, the synod issued the following declaration:

"With regard to the exclusion of Mr. Pöschke carried out by the
president after the close of the synod, the synod confirms it; for
although no settling paragraph exists as yet in our synodical
constitution regarding such cases, the president's proceeding
nevertheless stands, in view of the facts at hand and of the accused's
impenitence made evident at the pastoral conference, in indirect
connection with the conclusion of § 5, Chap. II. Furthermore, had the
president continued to recognize Mr. Pöschke as a member of the synod
until the next synodical convention, he would have sinned against God's
Word and made himself a partaker of others' sins, had Mr. Pöschke, as a
synod member in the meantime, taken on the service of a congregation
and presumably caused great harm."

In order to make provision for similar cases in the future, the synod
adopted the following resolution as an addition to the constitution: