# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1850_S123
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may appear, the Synod may nonetheless rest assured that, as the
circumstances show, those pastors of our fellowship who have left their
congregations — either with the congregation's Christian consent, or
compelled by its stubborn resistance to God's Word and order — were not
moved to do so by carnal motives, but had regard in doing so solely to
God's glory, to obedience to His holy guidance, and to the advancement of
His Kingdom. The following, however, is what I have to report in this
regard:

1. Pastor Adam Ernst received a call to the congregation at Town
Eden, N. Y.; he accepted this call and entered upon his new office on
August 12 of last year.

2. After Pastor J. Trautmann, through the resistance of his
congregation at Danbury, Ottawa County, Ohio, to an exercise of office
according to God's Word, felt compelled to leave it, he for a time stood by
Pastor Röbbelen at Liverpool, Ohio, as assistant preacher at the request of
that pastor's congregation, but then followed a call from the congregation
at Adrian and Hillsdale, Lenawee County, Mich., and was, on May 19 of
this year, solemnly installed in this his new office by Pastor Hattstädt.

3. Pastor E. O. Wolff received a call from the congregation near
Union, Franklin County, Mo., accepted it, and has already administered
his new office there since December 9 of last year.

4. Pastor Albert Schieferdecker was chosen by the congregation at
Altenburg together with Dresden and Seelitz, Perry County, Mo., as
successor to our late Löber, and has served these congregations since
January 6 of this year, on which day his installation by Pastor Gruber
took place.

5, 6. I myself, too, have been called by the Synod's electoral college to
the Concordia College at St. Louis, Mo. However keenly I recognized my
own unfitness to take up a teaching post at such an institution, I have
nevertheless accepted the call received, in God's name and in the
confidence that God can make use even of the least and, in themselves,
most unskilled instruments; in particular, I did not dare decline the call,
since my dear congregation believed it had to consent to my being called
away only on the condition that I still officially take part in the governing
of the congregation and take on one sermon a month in each of the
congregation's two churches. Through my departure from here, the
pastorate at the Trinity Church here has become vacant, to which Pastor
Wyneken has been called, who has administered it since April 28 of this
year.

7. Since his congregation would not submit to God's Word, Pastor
Volkert, for conscience's sake, had to give it up, and accordingly accepted
another call, from the congregation at Wickliffe, Cook County, Ill., where
he was publicly installed on April 9 of this year by Pastor Hoffmann, with
the assistance of Pastor Selle.

8, 9. Pastor Claus, who likewise had been compelled by the resistance
of his congregation to turn away from it, received a call from the
congregation at Neu-Melle, St. Charles County, Mo., since Pastor Fick
had been called away from there to the congregation at Bremen, St. Louis
County, Mo. The former entered upon his new office on April 28, the
latter on May 5 of this year.