# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1852_S211
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26. The Evangelical Lutheran Mount Pleasant congregation in Jackson
Township, Hamilton Co., Ind., through which Pastor Schumann was
admitted with voting rights.

27. The Evangelical Lutheran St. John's congregation in Elk Grove, Ill.,
through which Pastor Kunz was admitted with voting rights.

28. The Evangelical Lutheran Zion congregation in Cleveland, O., through
which Rev. Pastor Schwan was admitted with voting rights and Mr.
Gottlieb Gerstenberger as deputy.

29. The Evangelical Lutheran St. James congregation in German Township,
Fulton County, O. (Pastor Detzer).

30. The Evangelical Lutheran Zion congregation in Crete, Will Co., Ill.
(Pastor Selle.)

31. The Evangelical Lutheran congregation in Paitzdorf, Perry Co., Mo.,
through which Rev. Pastor Gruber was admitted with voting rights.

32. The Evangelical Lutheran Good Hope congregation in Holmes County,
O., through which its pastor F. Besel was admitted with voting rights
and Mr. Jakob Bohleber as that congregation's deputy.

33. The Evangelical Lutheran congregation in Rochester, N. Y.

34. The Evangelical Lutheran Trinity congregation in Cincinnati, O.,
through which Rev. Pastor Wichmann was admitted with voting rights and
Mr. C. Wichmann Sr. as deputy.

35. The Evangelical Lutheran congregation on the Big River, Mo.
(formerly a daughter congregation of Rev. Pastor Johannes).

Note. Rev. Pastor König of Schwarmstädt, Kingdom of Hannover, likewise
applied for admission into the synodical fellowship. The Synod resolved
to admit him into the fellowship after a colloquy had been held, with
which Rev. Pastor Brohm was charged.        D. Secr.

On the occasion of the admission of Pastors Wichmann and Polack into
our synodical fellowship, the committee concerned moved that the Synod
should set out the principles under which a Lutheran could, and must,
withdraw from any synod.

After discussion of this matter from several sides, it was declared that
a Lutheran could justify his withdrawal from a synod only in the
following cases:

1. if he had been expelled from a synod for confessing the truth; or

2. if remaining in a synod necessarily involved participation in false
doctrine or evil works; or

3. if a synod had plainly become a sect willfully persisting in heresy;
or

4. if a synod's continued existence amounted to an ongoing schism.

Regarding the doctrinal controversies [*Lehrſtreitigkeiten*] currently
unresolved in the Lutheran Church, Pastors Brohm and Gruber had asked
that the Synod take further steps toward a possible union with Pastor
Grabau and the Buffalo Synod.

Pastor Habel had submitted a letter to the Synod in which he testified
that he could not be in agreement with it, both regarding particular
points of doctrine and regarding some matters of practice. — As to
doctrine, after explanations made to him concerning the correct
understanding of the points he had criticized, he declared himself

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