# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1854_S281
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W. Richter, C. Brauer, M. F. Dietz, F. Stock, J. A. Pürner, H.
Habermehl, E. Kundinger, S. Riedel, H. Wedell.

There were thus 28 voting preachers and 33 advisory preachers and
schoolteachers absent — 61 standing synodical members in all — who had
excused their absence in writing, as had the unrepresented congregations
their failure to send deputies, and these excuses were accepted by the
Synod, although the reasons given by some could hardly be considered
sufficient. The Synod, together with the reporting committees, held
that with a little more earnestness and zeal, some of the absent
brothers could and should have made their attendance possible, and
the unrepresented congregations the sending of a deputy, or at least
made the journey to the Synod possible for their less well-off
preachers by providing travel money.

From the above list of both present and absent preachers and
schoolteachers, it further appears that our Synod, after the short
course of seven years, has now increased the number of its standing
members to 150, of whom, after subtracting the late Eißfeldt, 122
jointly hold the public preaching office and, most of them as well,
the office of schoolteacher; 6 are employed as professors and
teachers at our two educational institutions (already counting, among
those 122, the pastors Walther, Sihler, and Föhlinger), and 26 are
employed as schoolteachers at our congregational schools.

Pastors L. W. Habel and J. A. Deindörfer withdrew from our synodical
fellowship in the course of the past year, as may be seen, among
other things, from the following annual report of the Präses
[president].

After the Synod was constituted, the synodical address was read by
the Präses; but since it was mislaid when he moved, it could not be
printed in this Synodical Report.

Annual Report.

I. Deaths.

That our dear brother, Mr. Georg Volk, pastor at New Orleans, was
called by our Lord from his labor to eternal rest, and from the
church militant into the church triumphant, has already been
communicated to the honored brothers through "Der Lutheraner."
While we congratulate our beloved departed on this blessed change,
and adore the incomprehensible ways of our God, we cannot but lament,
with bowed and grieving hearts, the heavy loss we have suffered
through the early passing of our dear brother.

II. Ordinations.

Examined, found qualified for the preaching office, ordained after a
proper call from congregations, and bound thereby to all the
confessional symbols of our Church, were the following preachers:

1. On the 5th Sunday after Trinity, June 26, Mr. Mießler, the
previous mission assistant called — following the departure of Pastor
Baierlein — to the Lutheran Indian congregation at Bethany, Michigan,
was ordained in the midst of his congregation by the Präses, assisted
by Pastor Sievers.