# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1853_S247
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19. Its pastor, Mr. M. Günther (voting).

20. The Evangelical Lutheran St. John's congregation in Spencer
County, Indiana.

21. Its pastor, Mr. Eppling, as a voting member.

22. Mr. Ch. F. Dietz, schoolteacher at Milwaukee, Wis., as an
advisory member.

23. Mr. Ch. C. Metz, pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran congregation
at St. Joseph, Mo., as an advisory member.

24. Mr. Georg Gottl. Heid, schoolteacher at Columbia, Monroe
County, Ill. (advisory).

25. Mr. F. Schachameyer, schoolteacher at New Bremen (advisory).

26. Mr. W. A. Fick, pastor of the congregation at Hemmelsboden, Holt
County, Mo. (advisory).

27. Mr. F. Stock, schoolteacher at the congregation at Baltimore (advisory).
28. Mr. Joh. A. Pürner, schoolteacher at the congregation at Baltimore (advisory).

29. Mr. G. H. Miessler, missionary at Bethany (advisory).

30. O. Eissfeldt, pastor of the congregation at Sheboygan, Wisconsin
(advisory).

31. Mr. M. Stephan, pastor of the congregation at Theresa, Dodge
County, Wisconsin (advisory).

Correspondence between the Synod of Missouri, etc., and the
Synod of Buffalo.

The Synod found before it a letter addressed to it from the Synod of
Buffalo concerning the disputes existing between the two synods and
their possible settlement, which, together with the correspondence it
occasioned, is communicated here in full and unabridged.

In the Name of Jesus!

The Synod of Buffalo to the Synod of Missouri, Assembled at
Cleveland.

The love of God the Father, the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and
the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with us. Amen!

"Seek peace and pursue it!" Obedient to this exhortation of the Holy
Spirit, the undersigned synod members likewise intend to leave nothing
undone that serves peace by a right and godly way.

Having learned from the 1852 synodical report of the Synod of
Missouri that the Reverend Synod of Missouri, on the motion of the
Reverend Pastors Habel, Brohm, and Gruber, resolved to seek
reconciliation with the Synod of Buffalo, and that, in order to carry this
out, it announced its intention in a letter to Pastor Grabau "to leave
nothing undone by which peace and unity might be brought about in the
Church." Also, that to this end it likewise sent Pastor Grabau a book,
"The Voice of Our Church on the Question of Church and Ministry"
[*Kirche und Amt*], with the request that, if he, after an impartial
examination of it, should still not be in agreement with them, he set a
time and place for a colloquy in order to come to an understanding with
them on the differences at issue.

Further, that Pastor Grabau wrote to Pastor Habel, the secretary of
the Reverend Synod of Missouri, who had communicated this to him,