# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1857_S309
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3) Names of the advisory synod members:

a. Pastors, professors, and missionaries:

F. Beſel, J. N. Beyer, J. P. Beyer, A. Biewend, F. Böling, Broſe,
O. Clöter, A. Crämer, A. Detzer, C. W. R. Frederking, H. Horſt, E. Kähler,
J. P. Kalb, W. Kolb, G. Küchle, J. G. Kunz, A. Lehmann, J. Lehner,
Ch. W. Lindemann, E. G. Mießler, Fr. Ottmann, J. G. Sauer, G.
Schäfer, G. Schaller, E. A. Schürmann, Dr. Guſt. Seyffarth, W. Stubnatzy,
N. Volkert, A. Zagel.

b. School teachers:

C. Brauer, J. J. Brater, Th. Bünger (listed above as a delegate),
Th. Gotſch, H. Habermehl, J. N. G. Kirchner, C. Kirſch, E.
Kundinger, J. Kunz, A. Lemke, Th. Lücke, W. Richter, S. Riedel, J. S.
Simon, J. G. Wolf.

The following brothers were present at the Synod as guests:

Mr. P. R. Riedel; the pastors Otteſen and Koren, the former as delegate
of the Synod of the Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church of America, the
latter as his companion; further the pastors Steuerwald of the Tennessee
Synod, Theiß of the Ohio Synod, Köſter of the Wisconsin Synod,
and Mr. Teacher Holls; and finally Messrs. Wiebusch and Lange of
St. Louis, the former as the Synod's printer and the latter as colporteur.

Great as the number of pastors, teachers, and congregational delegates
present at the Synod now was, the number of pastors and teachers who
excused their absence, and of congregations that excused their failure to
send a delegate, was not small either. This was the case with 28 pastors
and teachers and 30 synodical congregations, while some others had sent no
such excuse at all.

Although the Synod had to acknowledge, with joy and thanks toward
God, that the number of synodical congregations represented by a delegate
this time had grown considerably compared with before, it could nevertheless
not help but express its sorrow that some congregations (as unfortunately
also some pastors and teachers) had sent no excuse whatsoever; that others
had offered excuses which the Synod could not accept; and that still so many
congregations either considered themselves too poor to be able to send a
delegate, or pleaded a lack of time.

The Synod is convinced that in most cases, with real and lively zeal,
the on the whole modest expense could be raised, and that ways could easily
be found to lay the delegate's pressing occupational business, at least in
part, on the shoulders of the congregation's other members. It therefore
feels moved to repeat the admonition already given more than once: that
people would truly recognize the great importance of the Synod being
attended by a delegate, and be moved by that recognition, in joyful courage
of faith, to remove every obstacle that is not wholly insurmountable, and to
send a delegate wherever this is at all possible.

Admission of New Members.

The admission of new members was carried out by the respective
individual district synods, namely: