# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1911_S38
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38 Proceedings of the 28th General or

celebrated yesterday advised: an English district should be created
under the name 'The English Mission District of the German Ev. Luth.
Synod of Missouri.' What would then have been a quite small mission
district has now become an imposing body. I greet today with heartfelt
joy, and I believe the worthy fathers and brethren will agree with me
when I say: My soul is joyful in my God, for He has done great things
for His Church. May His blessing rest also on this new union! May He
Himself speak the Amen to it!"

The Right Reverend General President, Pastor F. Pfotenhauer, then
addressed the following brief words to the whole assembly, by now deeply
moved:

"Today is a day of great joy for the English and German Missouri
Synods. Not insofar as we greet one another as brothers and sit together
as brothers for the first time today — we have always been brothers,
children of one and the same Church — but rather today is a day of
great joy for both Synods insofar as, from today on, we intend to walk
one and the same road together, which we consider exceedingly
beneficial for the work of our dear Church in this vast and glorious
land that is the earthly fatherland of us and our children.

"Now let us also give all glory and all honor to Him alone to whom
it is due, the Lord, and therefore let us with joyful hearts sing the Te
Deum together."

So it was done. Led by all the teachers of our Lutheran parish schools
present at the Synod, grouped in the choir loft, and with vigorous organ
accompaniment, the whole vast assembly sang the mighty Te Deum
laudamus (No. 337 in the hymnal) in the highest exaltation. Song and
answering song rang out loudly up to the Lord, who in this matter had
brought about among brethren in the faith a unanimity that no one on
either side had thought possible beforehand.

On Wednesday morning, May 17, the following committee report was
submitted to the synodical assembly:

"To the Ev. Luth. Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States, assembled
at St. Louis, Mo.:

"Your committee, charged with negotiating with a committee of the
other Synod (or District, respectively) regarding the further
implementation of the agreements entered into by the English and our
Synod, hereby submits its due report.

"Your committee has negotiated in the matter named with a duly
authorized committee of the English District and recommends that the
Reverend Synod adopt the following resolutions:

"1. Resolved, that the Board of Directors of the Concordia Pub-
lishing House, together with that of the American Lutheran Publication