# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1884_S3
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[Printed page 3 — no running head; this is the opening page of the convention minutes. A small "1" printed at the foot is a printer's sheet signature, not a page number.]

Proceedings of the Fourth Delegate Synod

assembled at

St. Louis, Mo.,

from the 7th to the 17th of May, 1884.

J.N.J. [In the Name of Jesus]

Following the notice given in "Der Lutheraner" [the Synod's periodical], the General Synod
of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States convened as the Fourth Delegate Synod at the time it
had itself set the previous year, 1881, namely on Wednesday, May 7, at St. Louis, Mo., and
held its sessions in the splendid, spacious hall of the new seminary building.

On the morning of May 7, at 10 o'clock, the synodical assembly was opened with a
worship service at Trinity Church [Dreieinigkeitskirche], belonging to the Rev. Pastor O.
Hanser, at which Director W. Krauss preached on Galatians 2:1-10.

Eighteen sessions were held in all, nine in the morning and nine in the afternoon. The hours
of the sessions were fixed so that they were to last from 8:30 to 11:30 in the morning and
from 2:30 to 5:00 in the afternoon. Each session was opened with a hymn — led, by
resolution of the Synod, by Teacher J. Ungemach — together with the reading of a passage
of Scripture with its devotional comment from the Altenburg Bible Commentary
[Altenburger Bibelwerk] and the Lord's blessing, given by the chaplain appointed by the
Synod, Pastor H. Sauer, and was closed by the president with the prayer of the Lord's
Prayer [Vater-Unser].

Upon the Synod's organization it was found that the following delegates

1) were present:

I. From the Southern District:*)
a) with voting rights:
1. Pastors:
P. Klindworth; T. Stiemke (also serving as president of the district);
G. Birkmann.

*) The order of the districts is determined by the time of their assembly the previous
year. — The order of the delegates is the same as that given in the reports of the
individual district synods.