# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1850_S126
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18. Likewise J. N. Volkert, pastor of the Lutheran congregation at
    Wickliffe, Cook County, Ill.
19. Likewise the missionary Auch, of the Sibiwaing station.
20. Likewise the missionary Maier, of the Shiboyangk station.
21. Likewise Pastor Gruber, at Paitzdorf, Perry County, Mo.
22. Likewise Professor A. Biewend, at the college in St. Louis.
23. Likewise Rector Jakob Gönner, at St. Louis.
24. Likewise Pastor Geyer, at Watertown, Wis., after the reservations
    formerly existing between him and the Synod (see the First [I.]
    Synodal Report, p. 9) had been removed.
25. Likewise, as an advisory member, Pastor Reissner, and
26. Likewise Pastor Kühne.
27. Likewise the teacher Eduard Roschke, at St. Louis.
28. Likewise the teacher J. H. Bartling, at Addison, and
29. Likewise the teacher Julius Koch, in Bern Township near
    Lancaster, O.

The Reverend Pastors Weyel and Böhm could not yet be received, owing to
reservations that still applied; but of the Reverend Pastor Meißner, who
had likewise applied for admission, it was desired that he first produce a
release from the Indianapolis Synod, to which he had until now belonged.

Additions to the Constitution.

The additions to the Constitution listed as Nos. 1–4 in last year's
synodical report (p. 83) have not been approved by all the congregations;
Nos. 5 and 6, however, have received everyone's consent and are
therefore regarded as additional paragraphs. To spare our honored
readers the trouble of looking them up in the various earlier synodical
reports, they are appended here. They read:

(No. 5.) "If the conditions of membership set forth in Chap. II, §§ 1, 2, 3,
4, 5, 6, are acted against by congregations connected with the Synod or by
their pastors, then, after a prior fruitless admonition, nothing other than
expulsion can follow, whereby the expelled party then loses all share in
the property of the Synod, its educational institutions, etc. The same
applies also to those who separate themselves from the Synod for
whatever reason."

(No. 6.) "Should manifest offenses regarding doctrine or conduct occur,
between synodical conventions, on the part of individual pastors —
whether voting or advisory members — and should these, upon being put
to them by the Präses and the other officers, not be penitently
acknowledged and confessed, with improvement pledged, then the Präses
is authorized to suspend their membership in the synodical body
provisionally until the next session, and also to make this his course of
action public. In urgent cases of necessity the Präses is authorized to
make known publicly, even beforehand, that the member concerned is
under investigation."

The Altenburg College. (St. Louis.)

After the Synod, in its sessions last year, resolved on the removal of the
Altenburg institution to St. Louis and the construction of a seminary
building on the land donated by the St. Louis congregation, and also