# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1860_S26
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once more call the German people together to the newly opened
fountain of grace of Israel! Yes! Amen! May He grant this to happen! —

And now, my beloved brethren, let us begin our proceedings in God's
name. May He grant that they be so conducted and concluded that
everything redounds to the glory of His splendid name and to the
advancement of His kingdom. Amen! —

Annual Report of the Western District of the Evang. Luth. Synod
of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States, 1860.
Ordinations and Installations on Behalf of the
District Presidium.

1. After Mr. J. H. Ph. Gräbner, formerly preacher of the Evang.
Luth. congregation at Roseville, Mich., had received and accepted a
regular call from the Evang. Luth. congregation at St. Charles, Mo.,
he was solemnly installed in the Lutheran pastoral office there on
Sunday Cantate, May 22, 1859, by Pastor J. F. Bünger.

2. On Sunday Exaudi, June 5, 1859, Mr. J. M. M. Moll, who had
completed his theological studies at the Concordia Seminary in St.
Louis, was, after successfully passing the candidate's examination
and after receiving a regular call from the congregation at
Neu-Bielefeld, St. Louis Co., Mo., solemnly ordained and installed in
his office by Pastor Brohm, with the assistance of Professor Walther,
in the midst of the said congregation.

3. After Mr. G. Bernthal, a student of the seminary at Fort
Wayne, had passed the prescribed examination and received a call as
assistant preacher of Pastor Stubnatzi's congregation, he was on July
22, 1859, ordained and installed in his office by Pastor Stubnatzi,
with the assistance of Pastor Küchle, with obligation to the
[confessional] Symbols.

4. On the 12th Sunday after Trinity, September 11, 1859, Pastor
Hermann Fick, who had received and accepted a regular call from the
Evang. Luth. congregation at Collinsville, Ill., was solemnly
installed in his office by Pastor J. F. Bünger, with the assistance
of Pastor Link.

5. Pastor E. Riedel, formerly at Dissen, Mo., from where he also
served the congregation at Paitzdorf, Perry Co., Mo., was, on the
20th Sunday after Trinity, November 6, 1859, solemnly installed in
his office by Pastor J. P. Beyer, with the assistance of Pastor Th.
Jungck, in the Evang. Luth. Trinity congregation at Cape Girardeau,
Mo., from which he had received and accepted a regular call.

6. Mr. Friedrich Döscher, trained at the theological seminary at
Fort Wayne, was, on the 22nd Sunday after Trinity, November 20, 1859,
after he had accepted a regular call from the Evang. Luth.
congregation at Iowa City, Iowa, solemnly ordained and installed in
his office there by Pastor Selle, in the midst of his congregation.