# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1878_S19
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...teachers in church as in school, and young and old return to the ardor
of their first love, and God grant us in this way a new, blessed,
fruitful Pentecost season. Yes, may God the Father grant this through
the working of his Holy Spirit, for the sake of Jesus Christ, his
eternal Son, of like essence and like glory, the Savior of us all.
Amen.

Presidential Report [*Präsidial-Bericht*].

As for the report that, according to the synodical constitution, falls
to the General Presidency [*Allgemeines Präsidium*] to render, it now
coincides — since the visitation of preachers and congregations
formerly connected with the General Presidency has lapsed — partly with
the detailed minutes of the district synods published in print, partly
with the reports of the supervisory boards of our synodical
institutions now before us, partly with reports of other synodical
committees, and with other written submissions to be brought before the
Venerable Delegate Synod by the General Presidency. Only one thing may
need special mention: that no protest from any congregation was
received against the change, proposed by the last Delegate Synod, in
the manner in which teachers at the synodical institutions are to be
elected, and that this change has accordingly now gone into effect.

The General Presidency therefore discharges itself only of the further
duty of naming the matters whose disposal will be the business of the
present convention.*

C. F. W. Walther,
General President [*Allgem. Präses*].

Proceedings of the Synod.

Concordia Seminary at St. Louis, Mo.

The theoretical Evangelical Lutheran Concordia Preachers' Seminary
[*Concordia-Predigerseminar*] at St. Louis has abundantly experienced
our God's faithful care and great blessing during the period from
October 24, 1874, to May 14, 1878. In the academic year 1874–1875
there were 74 students in the seminary; in 1875–1876 the number was 92;
in the following year, 1876–1877, there were 86 students present, and
in the current academic year their number is 89. In all, 176 students
attended the seminary during the period named, of whom 120 have already
been called into the holy preaching office

* Since these matters recur in the minutes, their enumeration is
omitted here as unnecessary.