# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1911_S35
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13th Delegate Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States, 1911. 35

taken up individually. It was then resolved to adopt the committee's
entire report unanimously, and a committee consisting of Messrs. Theo.
Lamprecht and J. H. Thiemeyer, Prof. W. H. T. Dau, P. H. B. Hemmeter, and
Director A. W. Meyer was charged with conveying this report to the English
Synod.

On the morning of May 13 an English version of the committee's report
on union with the English brethren, unanimously adopted by the Synod, was
read aloud. When a discussion arose over the best rendering of a certain
expression, it was established that for our resolutions in this matter the
German text was universally binding, just as for the resolutions sent to us
by the English brethren the English text must be regarded as decisive. The
translation that had been presented was neither adopted nor rejected.

During the morning session on May 15 the chair announced that our
English brethren had ratified, in their synodical assembly, the union
agreement we had sent them, and intended to process in a body into their
new synodical building at half past four that afternoon. Committee 3 was
charged with seeing to it that this procession be a dignified one.

It was also resolved that the same committee propose to us men who, as
a standing committee, could settle with the English District Synod, during
and after the Synod, the remaining details still to be arranged.

That afternoon, at the appointed hour, the formal union celebration took
place, which will remain unforgettable for the rest of their lives to all who
took part — the spacious Holy Cross Church was filled to the last standing
place. A brother from far away, Mr. Karl Arendt of our congregation in
London, had just been introduced to the Synod to say a few words to it,
when the joyful news was brought that the brethren of the new English
District were at the door. It was an uplifting sight as these dear brethren
processed into the church while all the members of the German Synod rose
from their seats. After the brethren of the English District had taken the
front pews cleared for them, Pastor Biewend, as representative of the
German Synod, delivered the following address of welcome:

"We thank God, our Heavenly Father, that He has fulfilled our
hopes. You, dear brethren, have come back to your mother; you
have come back to your brethren. You, indeed, ever were our brethren,
but you did not dwell in the same house with us. Now you come to
live under our roof. This has not come to pass by our wisdom and
power, but by the hand of God. We also know that this is pleasing
and acceptable to God, our Heavenly Father. Yea, the angels of
heaven rejoice. We have no doubt but that our dear Savior will
say, 'Well done!' And as Moses said to Hobab, we would now.