# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1872_S3
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[Unnumbered — opening page of the Protokoll, no folio printed]

Minutes

of the

Sessions of the General German Evang. Lutheran Synod
of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States

at its

Fifteenth Convention

at St. Louis, Mo.,

from April 26 to May 7, 1872.

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After the Synod's twenty-fifth founding anniversary had been observed
with worship on April 26 — a main service held in the morning at
Trinity Church [*Dreieinigkeits-Kirche*], with a sermon by the Rev.
Präses [president] C. F. W. Walther on Ps. 119:43, and evening services
in all the Lutheran churches of the city belonging to the Synod — the
Synod assembled in a spacious hall rented for the purpose from the
local Lutheran congregation (Mercantile Library Hall) to hold its
sessions. The first session was opened with a fitting invocation of
blessing by the Reverend General Präses, with a hymn sung together,
and with the reading of Psalm 113 and a prayer spoken by Professor
Crämer. All the remaining sessions were likewise opened with the
reading of psalm passages, singing, and prayer by the chaplain
appointed by the Synod, Pastor Straſen. They were closed with the
Lord's Prayer, spoken by the Präses.

In all, sixteen sessions were held; it was determined that they should
run from 8 to 11 o'clock in the morning and from 2 to 5 o'clock in the
afternoon.

Besides this, the districts met separately several times to conduct
their own business, and two pastoral conferences [*Paſtoral-Conferenzen*]
were also held.