# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1853_S272
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Account of the Treasurer and the Book Committee.

These accounts have been examined and found correct. From Volume VIII
of the *Lutheraner* there results a surplus of $321.10, the income
having amounted to $17.20 and the expenditure $1312.40, with $66.70 to
be reckoned as income for Volume IX.

From the account of the Book Committee there results, this year, a
surplus of $108.40, half of which — $54.20 — has been added to the
Synodical Book Fund, while the other half has gone to Mr. Pfau (see
above, "Colporteur") as a gratuity. The Synodical Book Fund thus now
consists of the $63.06 credited to it last year plus the above $54.20,
that is, a total of $117.26.

Thanksgiving.

The Synod heartily thanks the dear fellow believers in Germany for the
gifts of love sent to it for building up its educational institution in
St. Louis by friends in Bavaria and the church authorities in the Grand
Duchy of Mecklenburg and in the Hanoverian province of Bremen and
Verden — the latter through the Stade Society for the Support of the
Lutheran Church in North America. In these tokens of love, and
especially in the fact that church authorities themselves undertook the
collection and forwarding of part of these gifts, the Synod joyfully
recognizes how the faithful God again gathers His own around our good
Lutheran confession, and prays God to richly repay the dear givers'
kindness with strengthening of faith, peace, and joy from His
countenance, to the honor of His holy Name.

Likewise the Synod thanks the dear friends in Germany, particularly the
reverend professors in Erlangen, Leipzig, and Rostock, who, through the
kind mediation of Messrs. Dörfling and Franke of Leipzig, procured for
it, from several worthy publishing houses, so rich a gift of books for
the educational institution in St. Louis. May gracious God richly repay
these kind givers' generosity as well, and let them see joyful fruit of
such a good work.

Individual Resolutions.

1) Alongside the *Lutheraner*, which will continue to appear every
fourteen days as before — though its style shall henceforth be adapted
even more than before to the people's understanding — a *Monatsblatt*
[Monthly Paper] shall also be published, for preachers and those among
the people able to follow more scholarly treatises.

The editorship of this monthly shall for now be placed in the hands of
Pastors Brohm and Hoyer.

2) Pastor Nordmann is to make inquiries at the appropriate office in
Washington as to how our Synod's property might best be secured.

3) Professor Walther has been charged with publishing, through the
*Lutheraner*, the basic principles of a congregational constitution that
should underlie the drafting of every congregational constitution.

4) Each of the various ministerial conferences of our Synod is made
responsible for sending, before the first of November this year, to the
Eastern Conference the proposals and lists of those they wish to
recommend...