# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1857_S324
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the Synod is urgently pressed to take heart and, by advertising a proper
call, secure this resource for itself.

Concerning everything else that remains to be reported to the Synod,
the various committees will take the liberty of submitting their
proposals. On one matter only would I still like to draw the Reverend
Synod's attention. The Reverend Synod is aware that the Central Bible
Society of the West has, by God's grace, published the reprint of the
above-mentioned New Testament of the Altenburg Bible. Of the blessing that
this gift of God will bring, there will be but one voice. Would it not be
possible — and, with the Synod's help, feasible — to publish the Old
Testament as well? We would have great cause to praise God if he let this
work succeed for the congregations' blessing. Here too everything will
depend on the right faith, which trusts the Lord to do something on the
strength of his promises. Let us now, in his name, begin our proceedings,
and may he grant that they be so conducted and concluded that everything
turns out to the glory of his name and the furtherance of his kingdom.
Amen!


Annual Report of the Western District of the Evangelical Lutheran Synod of
Missouri, Ohio, and Other States, 1857.

To a Reverend Synod I have to report the following changes of office
that have occurred within our synodical district in the past synodical
year:

1. The Reverend Pastor G. Link, formerly at the Lutheran congregation
at Neu-Bielefeld, Mo., accepted a call from the Lutheran congregation at
Pleasant Ridge, Madison Co., Ill., and was installed there on the second
day of Pentecost, 1856, on behalf of the Vice-Präſes, by the Reverend
Pastor C. Straſen.

2. The Reverend Dr. Georg Moritz Gotsch was duly called by the
above-named congregation of Neu-Bielefeld and, after a preceding
colloquium, was installed there on the tenth Sunday after Trinity, 1856,
by the Vice-Präſes, the Reverend Pastor Bünger.

3. The Reverend Adam Hügli, trained for the preaching office at
Concordia College, was called by the Lutheran congregation near
Jonesboro, Ill., and was ordained by me, in the midst of his congregation,
and installed in his office on the fourth Sunday after Trinity, 1856.

4. The Reverend Pastor J. A. F. W. Müller, formerly at the Lutheran
congregation near Manchester, St. Louis County, Mo., was called by the
second Lutheran congregation in Chicago, Ill., and was installed there in
his new office on the fifth Sunday after Trinity, 1856, on my behalf, by
the Reverend Pastor Brauer, assisted by Pastors Löber and Wunder.

5. The Reverend Pastor Joh. Mich. Hahn, formerly at the Ebenezer
congregation in Franklin County, Mo., was called by the Evangelical
Lutheran congregation at Holy Cross Church in William Township, Benton
County, Mo., and was installed there in his new office, on behalf of the
presidium, by the Reverend Pastor M. Wege, on the twelfth Sunday after
Trinity, 1856.

6. Mr. Edmund Multanowski, until now a student of the seminary at
Fort Wayne, was called by the newly formed Lutheran congregation at
Carlinville, Macoupin Co., Ill., and was solemnly ordained, in the midst
of his congregation, by the Reverend Pastor Rennicke, on behalf of the
presidium, on the fourteenth Sunday after Trinity, 1856, and installed in
his office.