# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1854_S291
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— 291 —

The visit to the Chippewa Indians in Minnesota that the Mission
Commission had suggested, and that the respective committee had
proposed, along with the founding of a mission station among them
recommended in case of favorable results, was postponed for the time
being.

May the faithful God continue to prosper our small but so important
work among our red brothers, and crown it with his rich blessing! —

The Tennessee Synod.

The Reverend Evangelical Lutheran Tennessee Synod had appointed
Pastor J. R. Moser as its delegate to ours for this year's synodical
convention. He was, however, unfortunately prevented by domestic
circumstances from carrying out his assignment — he had reported this
to our Synod with heartfelt regret in a letter of June 5 of this year,
and at the same time expressed in it the brotherly love and sentiment
of that Synod's members toward ours, together with the urgent request
that we send delegates to its next convention, gathering on the Saturday
before the first Sunday in November of this year at St. Peter's Church
in Lexington District, S. C., in order to establish a close brotherly
union with one another. — Our Synod had already resolved last year to
send a delegation to the Reverend Tennessee Synod and had appointed
brothers from our midst for that purpose. All the more willingly and
warmly, therefore, did it now take up that letter — though with heartfelt
regret that it had not been possible for the reverend brother to appear
in person among us — and reopened deliberation on the matter; and it
resolved anew to send a delegate to that Synod. It appointed Pastor
Brohm of New York, our current general vice-president [Vicepräſes], for
this purpose, and, in case he should be prevented, gave the president
[Präſes] the charge of appointing another man in his place.

Conference Minutes and Congregational Constitutions.

The submitted conference minutes [Conferenz-Protokolle] and
congregational constitutions [Gemeinde-Ordnungen] could unfortunately
not be given the necessary time and care this time either, since other
matters requiring settlement occupied the deliberations too heavily.
Those minutes and constitutions had indeed been referred to certain
committees for examination and report, and those committees had
discharged their assignment. But the Synod could take up in its public
deliberation only the report on a few congregational constitutions, and
had to assign the rest to the respective district synods being formed
through the division of the Synod, for deliberation and settlement at
their next conventions. Various other written submissions and inquiries
likewise had to be left, for lack of time, to the respective district
synods and ministerial conferences. — Among the advantages that will,
under God's help and blessing, arise from the division of the Synod into
four district synods, not the least will be the division of the work and
business, and thus a more careful deliberation and a swifter settlement
of matters.