# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1887_S27
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Fifth Delegate Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States, 1887. 27

Would to God that people were at least somewhat as satisfied with me
as I am with the brothers!

From what has been reported above, the Reverend Synod will now have
gained a rough overview of how many and varied matters lie before the
present assembly for consideration and decision. Others will no doubt
be added in the course of it. But by far the greatest part of these
items is of a kind that must necessarily be dealt with now. For that
reason I have, though only after several fruitless attempts to secure a
speaker [Referent], finally concluded that I must refrain entirely from
doctrinal proceedings this time. It will, of course, please none of us to
be together for ten days without so much as touching on a single point
of wholesome doctrine. Yet I fear this will become more and more
altogether impossible for our delegate synods as time goes on. Let us,
then, attend to doctrine all the more diligently at our district
assemblies! But let us also never forget, at our general synodal
assemblies, that everything we arrange and order even in outward
matters is meant to serve, and only to serve, the advancement of God's
precious Word, which makes our souls blessed. Let us therefore, even
in handling such lesser external affairs, let our hearts and minds
always be guided and governed by the Word and Spirit of our God!
If we take up and carry out our work in this spirit, God will grant
that this year's gathering too may help our fellowship to build itself
up, walk in the fear of God, and be filled with the comfort of the Holy
Spirit. May God grant this in his grace, for the sake of his beloved
Son Jesus Christ, praised forever! Amen. H. C. Schwan.

Business Proceedings.

Concordia Seminary at St. Louis, Mo.

"In our preachers' seminary [Predigerſeminar] at St. Louis, theological
instruction was given, as before, in the past three years solely on the
foundation of the Word of God and in accordance with the confession of
our Church. The professors have at all times discharged their weighty
office with great faithfulness and conscientiousness, and have again
prepared a whole company of students for the holy office of the
ministry and, by God's grace, made them fit for it.