# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1850_S129
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circumstances still prevailing, and in view of the meager salary we were
able to offer him, calls for our most grateful acknowledgment and
consideration. We therefore consider ourselves bound most warmly to
recommend Mr. Nitzschke to the Reverend Synod for further
consideration in one way or another.

With God's help we shall endeavor to continue supporting the
institution to the best of our ability, and, as regards the congregation at
St. Louis, have designated for this purpose, besides the contributions of
the congregation's members, the surplus remaining in the treasury from
the sale of the hymnal published by our press, as well as that of our
so-called cemetery fund [Kirchhofscasse].

May the blessing of the LORD crown the institution forever and ever.
St. Louis, Mo., and Altenburg, Perry Co., Mo.,
October 8, 1849, and June 4, 1850.
The Evangelical Lutheran Congregation of the Unaltered Augsburg
Confession at St. Louis, Mo., by its elders [Vorsteher]:
Carl Ferd. Wilh. Walther, pastor. Joh. Friedr.
Bünger, pastor vic. [vicar]. Friedr. Wilh. Barthel. Carl
August Gräber. Friedr. Siegm. Koch. C. Ferd.
Rudloff. Joh. Carl David Römer. Johannes
Bendel. Ernst Moritz Große. Joh. Gg. Bischoff.
The Evangelical Lutheran Congregation of the Unaltered Augsburg
Confession at Altenburg, Perry Co., Mo., by its elders:
Georg Albert Schieferdecker, pastor. G. Klügel.
Friedr. Fischer. Carl Jul. Otto Nitzschke. Gottfr.
Schmidt."

This deed of transfer was read aloud to this year's synodical convention,
and it was unanimously resolved: "that on the basis of it the institution be
taken over, and that the drafting of a constitution now proceed." This was
done, and the committee charged with the task then, at a later session,
presented for approval the following

Statutes for the Concordia College of the Evangelical
Lutheran Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States,

which were adopted:

§ 1. The name of the institution is: Concordia College [Concordia-
Collegium] (Concordia University) of the Evangelical Lutheran Synod of
Missouri, Ohio, and other States.

§ 2. The Concordia College, founded in the fall of 1839, was
transferred, by a deed of gift dated October 8, 1849, St. Louis, Mo., and
June 4, 1850, Altenburg, Perry Co., Mo., by the German Evangelical
Lutheran congregations at the said places to the German Evangelical
Lutheran Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and other States, as sole property, in
due and proper form, under the following conditions:

1. That it shall forever serve the Lutheran Church, and train only her
pastors and teachers.

2. That German shall be adopted, and remain inviolably, the sole
medium of instruction in the college [Collegio]; whereby, however, the
use of the Latin language customary in the gymnasiums and universities
of Germany for certain lessons may also be applied in the said institution.