# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1911_S3
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[No folio printed — opening of the chapter.]

Proceedings of the Thirteenth Delegate Synod,
assembled at
St. Louis, Mo.,
from May 10 to May 20, 1911.

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In the Name of Jesus.

At the Church of the Holy Cross in St. Louis, Mo., the large body of delegates and many other members of the German Ev. Luth. Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States assembled on the morning of May 10 at ten o'clock. "Come, Holy Spirit, Lord God!" the mighty assembly sang, and with it opened the 28th meeting of the General Synod, the 13th Delegate Synod. Vice-President Pastor Brand preached the opening sermon. On the basis of Isaiah 51:16 he encouraged the assembled representatives of the Synod to carry on the Synod's work tirelessly and joyfully, since it is not a merely external matter but rather a directing forth of the Word, of the pure, unadulterated Word of God, which carries the Lord's blessing with it.

Immediately after the opening worship service, whose solemnity was further heightened by the well-rehearsed congregational choir's fine hymns, many delegates — though unfortunately not all — handed in their credentials to a committee that, along with others, had already been appointed beforehand by the first Vice-President, Pastor F. Pfotenhauer.

It was this same man who, in the afternoon, in the absence of the Synod's General President, Dr. F. Pieper, opened the Synod's first session.

The Credentials Committee, which had worked strenuously throughout the noon hour in order to be able to present a complete list, read out the result of its registration. But while this committee was reporting (and on the following days as well), a large number of credentials were still being submitted, so that the list could not claim completeness at its first reading.¹⁾

1) Even at the second reading the list was still not entirely correct, although the Credentials Committee had taken every pain to complete it. A chief difficulty at every synodical assembly is that the numerous deviations from the district lists drawn up a year earlier are not brought to the secretary's