# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1872_S28
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[continued: Dr. Preuss informed me of his res-]ignation from his office.
Since what preceded this step, and what followed shortly after it, has
already been set forth at length in the "Lutheraner" and has, I hope,
thereby been sufficiently brought to the knowledge of the Venerable
Synod, it should suffice to have made only this mention of the matter
here. I enclose the resignation letter of the unfortunate man.

During its last sessions at Fort Wayne, a written petition was laid
before the General Synod expressing the wish that it alter two stanzas,
in hymns of our hymnal [Gesangbuch], that admit of an unfavorable
interpretation. For lack of time, the settling of this matter was at that
time postponed to a later occasion, and the Reverend Pastor Lochner the
Elder was charged with critically examining the readings in question. The
result of our dear brother's investigations has reached me in writing,
and I hereby place it in the hands of the Synod for its deliberation and
resolution.

I likewise give notice herewith that I have received a letter drawn up by
President Gross, in which he, on behalf of the Eastern District, moves
that, in the interest of some congregations belonging to our union, our
hymnal be furnished with an appendix of certain hymns that are missing
from it. I likewise lay this letter before the Synod, referring at the
same time to the judgment which the Executive Committee [Vorcommittee],
to which this matter was also submitted, has rendered on it.

According to a letter dated March 18 of this year, drawn up on behalf of
the Fort Wayne Ministers' and Teachers' Conference by the Reverend Pastor
Dulitz and sent to me, that conference wishes the Synod to state its
position on whether congregations have the right to employ, at their
schools, young men who have either voluntarily left one of our
institutions or been dismissed from one, whether as incompetent or as
unworthy. I received a letter of related content from the two
congregations belonging to our Synod in Fort Wayne, in which they voice
to the Synod their concern that overly young seminarians are so often
placed in teaching posts, the writers declaring it most advisable that
practical schoolteachers be appointed as trainers of pre-seminary
students [Präparandenbildner], under whose supervision the boys intending
to devote themselves to the teaching office would be prepared, until
about the age of 18, for admission to the teachers' seminary.

In a letter dated March 11 of this year from our dear brother, Pastor
Multanowski, a request supported by various reasons is addressed to the
assembled General Synod, that it issue "a public declaration, grounded in
God's Word, against the papal dogma of infallibility established at the
Vatican Council in the year 1870" — which petition I hereby dutifully
submit to the Synod for Christian consideration.