# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1857_S310
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1. From the western district synod: Dr. Georg Moritz
Gotſch, pastor at Neu-Bielefeld, Mo., entitled to vote; W. Heinemann,
assistant preacher of the St. Paul's and the Immanuel congregations at Chicago,
Illinois, advisory; C. E. Kähler, pastor at Grundy County, Ill.;
Dr. Guſt. Seyffarth, A.M., Doctor of Philosophy and Theology at Concordia College
in St. Louis; Fr. Ruff, pastor in Groveland, Ill.; E. Multanowſki,
pastor at Carlinville, Ill.; H. W. Knoche, teacher of the St. John's
congregation at New Orleans, La.; Peter Nickel, teacher of the Zion congregation at
Crete, Ill.; — and the following congregations: the Cross [Kreuz] congregation in Benton,
Morgan Co., and the congregation in Pettis County, Mo. (Pastor Hahn's); the
branch congregation of Pastor Johannes in Benton County, Mo.; the Ebenezer
congregation in Grand Prairie, Washington County, Ill. (Pastor
Riemenschneider's).

2. From the middle district: Pastor Fr. R. Tramm at La
Porte, Ind.; schoolteacher Matthes in Darmstadt, Vanderburgh Co., Ind.;
Pastor G. Schäfer in Warren Township, Marion Co., Ind.; teacher Joh.
Kunz at Fort Wayne, Ind.

3. From the northern district: the pastors Eisfeller, pastor
at Frankenhilf and Frankentroſt, Mich.; Ahner, pastor at Grafton and
Cedarburg, Wis.; Hügli, assistant preacher at Frankenmuth, Mich.; Broſe,
pastor at Woodland, Wis.; further the teachers Carl Müller and Franz Bodemer;
and finally the following congregations: the St. Paul's congregation in the
parish district of Pastor Jox; the upper Immanuel congregation in Town
XII in the parish district of Pastor Dicke; the Immanuel congregation in
Grand Rapids (parish of Pastor Richmann).

4. From the eastern district: Friedr. Aug. Schmidt, pastor at
Eden, N.Y.; the congregation of Pastor Dörmann at Olean, N.Y.; the
congregation of Pastor Brauer at Pittsburg, Pa.; and, transferred in from the
northern district, Pastor Dulitz; from the western district, Pastor Brauer.

Synodical Address.

In the name of the most highly praised Holy Trinity, God the
Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Amen.

Reverend, in Christ our Lord dearly beloved
brothers in office and in the faith.

The place where we, today, by God's grace, have gathered anew in
such considerable numbers to hold our synodical session, after ten years of
the Synod's existence, surely calls to each one of us, in a special way, the
word of the Psalmist: Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his
benefits. It was sixteen preachers who, eleven years ago, came together here
in God's name, on the pure, unfalsified ground of our Lutheran confession,
to form the Synod, which then assembled for the first time a year later in
Chicago.

"Der Lutheraner" [the Synod's periodical] describes the state of the
church in this land at that time as follows: "Very few of those who called
themselves Lutheran knew the true Lutheran doctrine, and still fewer
confessed and