# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1872_S106
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— 106 —

...settle the matter, and charged Pastor Lochner Sr. with investigating
the disputed readings. The one so charged reported what he had found. The
Synod then first made all sorts of proposals; the motion to add brief
marginal notes to the passages that seemed objectionable met with
particular approval — but in the end the Synod agreed on the resolution to
leave the stanzas unchanged. The one synodical member who did not concur
was advised to have the difficulty resolved by private means. —

Ownership of property belonging to home missions.

A question had arisen whether the horses and other equipment belonging to
the mission — procured from the home-mission treasury and left to
designated pastors for carrying on the home mission — thereby became the
permanent property of the pastors, or should be returned by them once
they no longer made use of it in the mission's service; it was decided
that in the case specified, a return shall take place — but that the
resolution now made shall have no retroactive force. —

Free distribution of our school- and hymn-books.

These [copies] were requested and granted to the Lutheran orphanage in
Boston.

The Synodical Calendar.

The editing of our calendar was entrusted to Director Lindemann and
accepted by him. —

The Synodical Handbook.

A synodical handbook had been proposed by the General President; its
composition and publication were likewise resolved on by the Synod, and
this work has been entrusted to Prof. Selle. —

Opposing the episcopalian system.

A petition had come to the Synod from Professor Witte of Baltimore, in
which he asks that the episcopalian system be opposed and requests a
tract refuting, from Scripture and the church fathers, the episcopal
church's teaching on the *Amt* [the pastoral office/ministry]. — The
committee appointed to assess this petition judged that publishing a
tract of our own on this subject would be out of proportion to the actual
need among us, and that Mr. Witte's request would be sufficiently met if
one of the professors of theology were to write an article on the
subject. The Synod concurred with this judgment. —

Translator's note: "eint" (for "eine") on this page is printed exactly so
— a printer's error, transcribed as printed; likewise "Dieſelbe wurden"
(a singular/plural mismatch) is printed as shown.