# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1872_S38
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28. On November 12, Pastor Ernst Richter, who had earlier had to lay down his office on account of illness, was able to be installed by Pastor Fick as the called preacher of the Emmaus congregation in Dorsey Prairie, Madison Co., Ill.

29. On December 10, the 2nd Sunday in Advent, Pastor W. Vomhof, formerly in Davenport, Iowa, who had accepted the call of the newly formed Evangelical Lutheran congregations near Mount Carroll, Carroll Co., Ills., was installed by Pastor Mennicke.

30. On December 10, Pastor B. Burfeind, formerly in Adams County, Ills., was installed by Pastor Kern as preacher of the congregation in El Paso, Woodford Co., Ills.

31. On February 11, 1872, Quinquagesima Sunday, Pastor H. Hunziker, who had been driven out of his former congregation, was installed by Pastor Kern as pastor of the newly formed congregation in Town Brenton, Ford Co., Ills.

32. On February 11, Pastor Heinrich Bremer, who after regaining his health had accepted the call of the congregation at Lake Creek, Benton Co., Mo., was installed in his office by Pastor Th. Miessler, assisted by Pastor Aug. Sieving.

33. On February 18, Pastor G. Barth, until then assistant preacher in Fort Dodge, Iowa, who had received and accepted a call from the newly formed Evangelical Lutheran congregation at Ackley, Hardin Co., Iowa, was installed by Pastor Döscher.

III. Departures.
A. By transfer to another district:

1. Pastor F. Kügele moved to the Eastern District.

2. Pastor A. Biewend likewise.

3. Pastor H. Wunderlich moved to the Central District.

4. Pastor G. Markworth moved to the Northern District.

5. Pastor F. Ruhland received a call from the congregations in Dresden and Planitz that had withdrawn from the state church [*Landeskirche*] in Saxony.

B. By resignation from office:

Dr. C. Preuss laid down his professorship at Concordia Seminary because, as he said, he did not agree with the Lutheran Church's doctrine of justification, and has since, sadly, fallen away to the papal church [i.e., converted to Roman Catholicism].

C. By a blessed death:

The venerable, well-deserving, and dearly beloved servant of God in the Evangelical Lutheran congregation near Glasgow, Howard Co., Mo., the late Lorenz Eduard Kähler, has been transferred by his Lord and Savior from the church militant into the church triumphant. He died blessedly, in faith in