# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1854_S294
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b. as members of the electoral college [Wahlcollegium]: the Synod
resolved to keep the same persons for it as given in the last synodical
report;

c. as members of the Mission Commission: to keep the same members,
except that Mr. Barthel is to take over the mission treasury, and
Pastor O. Clöter to serve as its secretary;

d. as correspondent with foreign countries: that Prof. Walther
likewise remain in that role;

e. as chronicler: Pastor Fürbringer, likewise;

f. as members of the committee for issuing our periodicals: that the
same persons remain; and finally

g. that the members of the building commission also remain, with the
addition of Pastor Stephan.

Setting the Time and Place for Holding the District Synodical
Conventions, and of the Next General Synodical Convention.

The Synod set the time for holding the annual convention of the
various district synods, with regard to climatic conditions and the
required presence of the general president, as follows:

1) for the western district, the 3rd Wednesday after Easter;

2) for the northern district, the 2nd Wednesday after Pentecost;

3) for the eastern district, the 2nd Wednesday in September;

4) for the middle district, the 2nd Wednesday in October.

The western district synod had chosen Chicago as the place of its
convention next year; the northern, Milwaukee; the eastern,
Baltimore; and the middle, Indianapolis.

It thus only remained for the Synod to also set the place and time
for its next general synodical convention. It chose Fort Wayne as the
place, and the

1st Wednesday in October, A. D. 1857,

as the time of our next general synodical convention.

Worship During This Year's Synodical Convention.

If we still give this subject its own section here, last of all, this
is done for the sake of the importance we attach to it. It is our hope
that the Synod will continue to do so, — and that the individual
district synods will now also in particular do so, — giving this
important subject all possible attention and care, so that from this
source a rich blessing may flow not only to the delegates and the
local congregations concerned, but to all the Synod's congregations.

The Synod opened its morning sessions each time with the singing of
one of the good old, plain core hymns [Kernlieder], together with the
reading of a chapter from Holy Scripture (this time from the Acts of
the Apostles [Apoſtel-Geſchichte], chapters 1 through 17) and prayer by
one of the brothers; its afternoon sessions likewise with the reading
of a chapter and prayer; its evening sessions with singing and prayer;
and it closed every session with the Lord's Prayer [dem Gebete des
HErrn].