# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1852_S223
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12. Pastors shall by no means tolerate people being received into their
congregations who have not first reported to them, for the pastor must
have the opportunity to get to know the soul he is to take into his
care.

13. Just as little as private confession should be forcibly introduced
into a congregation, just as little — indeed far less — should one help
bring about its abolition where it already exists. Our pastors shall
insist on *Beichtanmeldung* [announcement for confession].

14. People who stay as guests with a congregation for a longer time but
do not formally join it, because they are unwilling to help bear the
congregation's burdens, etc., shall first be earnestly admonished, and,
if that does not help, shall no longer be admitted as guests but turned
away and treated as strangers.

15. Resolved: 1. that the Evangelical Lutheran Mission in East India be
sent all volumes of the *Lutheraner* to date, all synodical reports, and
the book on Church and Ministry; and 2. that the Synod of Tennessee
likewise be sent the book on Church and Ministry, by letter, with
fraternal greeting and notice that we will send a delegate to their next
synodical convention.

16. Resolved, that the board of trustees in St. Louis, Mo., be charged
with securing for the Synod a legally valid title to the property of the
institution there.

17. Resolved, that Pastor Fürbringer be charged with drawing up
instructions according to which the examination at Concordia College
shall be held, and that Pastor Schieferdecker be charged with attending
the examination and reporting on it to the Synod.

18. Pastors Wichmann, Polack, Eppling, Hüsemann, and Ottmann were
assigned to the South Indiana Pastoral Conference.

19. The board of trustees of the Synod's educational institutions is to
submit an annual report on them to the Synod.

Once the matters laid before the Synod had been dealt with, the
determination of the time and place of next year's synodical convention
was taken up. The vote resulted in

Cleveland, Ohio

being the place, and

the Wednesday after the first Sunday after Trinity

being the time, of our next year's convention.

May the LORD give us His grace and His blessing. Amen!