# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1899_S2
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Table of Contents.

                                                                          Page
Introduction .......................................................... 3
Roster of names ........................................................ 3
Tabular overview ........................................................ 14
Synodical address ....................................................... 15
President's report ...................................................... 20
The Church and God's Word. Paper by Prof. F. Pieper. .................. 22
Concordia Seminary at St. Louis, Mo. ..................................... 39
Concordia Seminary at Springfield, Ill. .................................. 42
Teachers' Seminary at Addison, Ill. ...................................... 43
Second Teachers' Seminary at Seward, Nebr. ............................... 46
Concordia Gymnasium [college-prep school] at Fort Wayne, Ind. ........... 49
Concordia Gymnasium at Milwaukee, Wis. ................................... 51
Concordia Progymnasium [junior college-prep school] at St. Paul, Minn. .. 54
St. Paul's Progymnasium at Concordia, Mo. ................................ 57
Concordia Progymnasium at Neperan, N. Y. ................................. 59
Home mission (including the mission at London, England) ................ 63
English mission ........................................................... 69
Foreign, or heathen, mission .............................................. 75
Emigrant mission in New York (including Hamburg and Bremen) ............. 80
Emigrant mission in Baltimore ............................................. 85
Jewish mission .............................................................. 87
Deaf-mute mission ............................................................ 92
Negro mission ................................................................. 96
Latvian and Estonian mission ................................................. 97
Indian [Native American] mission ............................................. 98
Proposed establishment of new missions in South America, i.e. Brazil, in the
    Sandwich Islands [Hawaii], Cuba and Puerto Rico, and Japan ........... 99
Board of Directors, agency, and treasury ..................................... 100
Administration of bequests .................................................... 115
Forms for bequests to the Synod ............................................... 118
Professors' salaries and pensions ............................................. 119
Relief fund matters ............................................................ 121
Electoral college ................................................................ 123
Admissions into the Synod ........................................................ 124
Answer to a constitutional question .............................................. 125
Synodical contribution ............................................................ 127
Ev. Luth. Free Church in Saxony and other German states .......................... 129
Petition from Berlin, Germany ..................................................... 130
Ev. Luth. Free Church in Denmark ................................................... 131
Formation of a new (14th) district ................................................. 131
New organization of the Delegate Synod ............................................. 132
Ratification of an amendment to the Constitution concerning the teaching staff
    of the Synod's institutions .................................................. 132
Petition of two congregations ....................................................... 132
Wisconsin District and the Wisconsin Synod .......................................... 133
Appeals ............................................................................... 134
The language question regarding instruction at the deaf-mute institute at North
    Detroit, Mich. .................................................................. 135
School inspection ...................................................................... 136
Several resolutions concerning the Southern District ................................. 136
Appeal to all members of our synodical congregations ................................. 137
Miscellaneous resolutions ............................................................... 137
Regulation of elections regarding the General Synod .................................. 138
Election of the new and farewell to the outgoing General President ................... 139
Charges for synodical officers .......................................................... 141
Expressions of thanks ..................................................................... 142
Synodical officers ......................................................................... 142
Determination of the time and place for the meeting of the next Delegate Synod
    ...................................................................................... 147
Close of the Synod ........................................................................... 147

[A handwritten pencil note at the foot of the page, not part of the printing: "ZE 677-24" — a modern library call number.]