# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1857_S327
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4. At the same time, the Reverend Pastor Hügli, formerly in
Jonesboro, Union County, Ill., was installed as assistant preacher in
Frankenmuth, Mich., by the Reverend Pastor Sievers, assisted by the
Reverend Pastor Clöter.

N.B. The fellow ministers officiating here acted on behalf of their
presidium.

III. Visitations.

Officially visited in the course of the synodical year — apart from
the Reverend Pastors Dulitz (who shortly afterward left the northern
district by accepting a call to Buffalo, N.Y.), Kolb, and Beyer, as well as
the congregations of the first- and last-named, upon request — were the
schools of the Milwaukee synodical congregation, which are found to be in
a promising condition, and the following fellow ministers together with
their congregations, which belong to the Synod, and most of their
schools: Pastor Trautmann in Adrian, Mich., Pastor Wagner in Watertown,
Pastor Geyer in Town Lebanon, Pastor Jox in Maple Grove, Pastor Steinbach
in Sheboygan, and Pastor Günther in Town Mequon, Wisconsin. In not a few
congregations the tendency toward unrest and the lack of harmony, or
indifference, will not yield; the preachers must often suffer for it in
body and in spirit, although in general their labor in the Lord, carried
out with conscientious faithfulness and competence, is not in vain.

O. Fürbringer, Präſes p. t. [president pro tempore]

Annual Report of the Eastern District Synod for the Year 1857.

1. The Reverend Pastor J. H. Dörmann, until now assistant preacher in
the congregations of the Reverend Pastor Ernst, has been called by three
of them — namely those at Olean, Clermontville, and Otto — to the
newly-established parish office, and was installed on the twenty-first
Sunday after Trinity, 1856, by the Reverend Pastor Ernst.

2. The Reverend Pastor L. Dulitz, formerly in Milwaukee, has been
called, as successor to the late Reverend Pastor Pinkepank, by the Holy
Trinity congregation there in Buffalo, N.Y., and was installed in his new
office on Sunday Sexagesima of this year by the Reverend Pastor Bürger.

3. The Reverend Pastor E. A. Brauer, until now in Addison, Ill., has
been installed as pastor of the first German Evangelical Lutheran
congregation in Pittsburgh, Pa., on Sunday Judica of this year, by the
district Präſes.

4. Mr. Candidate August Schmidt, of Concordia College in St. Louis,
has, as successor to the Reverend Pastor Ernst — who unfortunately had to
lay down his office because of illness — been ordained and installed in
his office by the Reverend Pastors Bürger and Dulitz.

I have held visitations in the congregations of the Reverend Pastors
Bürger, Nordmann, Sommer, Biltz, and Hoyer. W. Keyl.

Annual Report of the Middle District.

In the course of the summer half-year the Präſes visited the pastors
Schumann, Fr. König, John, Kolb, Daib, Schwan, Lindemann, Strieter,
Jüngel, Kühn, Werfelmann, and Fritze, and their congregations. This time
too he can give only a testimony redounding to the honor of his dear
fellow ministers' faithfulness and diligence: that each of them makes it a
matter of heartfelt concern to build up his congregation in understanding,
in faith, and in godliness of life