# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1911_S32
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32 Proceedings of the 28th General or

5. That it be the rule that wholly English congregations join the English
District, but that the decision as to which district a congregation joins
finally be left to that congregation's own judgment — naturally without
losing sight of the principle of Christian love — and that it imply no
reproach if congregations, for particular reasons, do not follow this rule;

6. That Concordia College at Conover, N. C., be transferred to the
General Synod;

7. That the question of when and how often the English District shall
meet be left to that District's own determination.

The English Synod then referred these propositions to its congregations
for discussion and acceptance or rejection. The congregations have now cast
their votes, and the following is the result of the vote: 30 congregations
voted for union with our Synod on the assumption that the Synod would be
received as an English District and the propositions adopted; 3½ votes were
cast for union by merger with the German Synod; 11½ fell against any
union at all; and 8 congregations did not vote and are regarded as
concurring — namely, that the Synod become a district of our Synod. (Also
according to the Lutheraner of 1911, p. 55.)

The proposals the committee intends to make in this matter it will
present orally to the Synod at its meeting in St. Louis.
                                                        Fr. Bente.
                                                        J. W. Miller.

Committee 3, which was to evaluate this report, had, at the instruction of
the General Praesidium, already convened in St. Louis the day before the
Synod opened and done the necessary preparatory work so that negotiations
with the English sister Synod could begin immediately.

The dear sister Synod had likewise chosen the same place — St. Louis —
and the same meeting time, and had likewise advanced its preparatory work
far enough that negotiations could, if need be, begin at once.

On the second day of the session, Thursday morning, a committee of the
English Synod appeared, conveyed in its name the warmest greetings, and
expressed the wish that the very question of the union of the two Synods
now before them be settled in such a way that the matter would be regulated
for all time to the blessing of the whole Lutheran Church.

A committee was appointed to convey the warmest greetings of the
German Synod to the English sister Synod assembled in the Church of Our
Redeemer.

On Thursday afternoon the Synod heard the report of Committee 3 and
resolved to take it up point by point. It read as follows: