# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1851_S185
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Publication of a Primer.

Concerning the draft submitted for this purpose, the responsible committee reported that the graduated arrangement of the exercises makes it useful and recommendable; but it wished that, as an appendix, alongside the text of the first three Chief Parts [of the catechism], a small selection of short Bible verses, little prayers and hymn verses, a couple of stories, and the Latin alphabet be added, and that a few woodcuts also be included in the little book. These proposals were adopted by the Synod.

Amendment to the Constitution.

It was proposed to change the sentence of the Constitution — "Whoever stays away twice in succession without a justified written excuse, his membership in the Synod is thereby terminated" — for the sake of avoiding misunderstanding, into the words: Whoever twice in succession does not excuse himself, etc. Congregations belonging to the synodical fellowship are therefore asked to submit their opinion next time on this amendment, which is really only a clearer statement of the sense of those words.

Buffalo Synod.

Finally, it should not go unmentioned that at the present synodical assembly various testimonies were voiced showing how, in the congregations belonging to the Buffalo Synod, many sincere members of that body long for an understanding and reunion with our Synod as soon as possible. When a member from one of those congregations, who had heard this discussion and asked permission to speak, testified to the most heartfelt longing of his heart for such a reunion, he was answered that he and those of like mind with him should make this wish known to their pastors; our readiness for such a reunion, on the basis of the truth, had already been sufficiently expressed by us.

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With this, the kind reader has been given the essential and most important matters from this year's synodical proceedings, and it remains only to announce that the vote on the time and place of

the next assembly

produced the result that it will, God willing, be held

the Wednesday after the second Sunday after Trinity

of the coming year, at Fort Wayne.

To God alone be the glory!