# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1911_S157
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13th Delegate Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States, 1911. 157

"In addition to the proposals for revising the hymnal, the committee also had before it, for its judgment, the following petition:

"'To the Reverend Delegate Synod, assembled at St. Louis, Mo., from May 10 to May 20, 1911.

"'Reverend Fathers and Brethren!

"'Since, within our Synodical body, more and more congregations are establishing English services, while our Synod offers no satisfactory liturgy for such services, and since, as a result, the greatest inconsistency prevails in the liturgy, the undersigned conference resolved to ask the Reverend Synod to appoint a committee that shall, if possible, in conjunction with the committee the Synod has appointed to revise the German Agenda, prepare an English liturgy along the lines of the so-called "Common Service" and submit it to the Reverend Synod for adoption at its next convention.

"'We take the liberty of asking for a liturgy along the lines of the "Common Service" chiefly because this order of service is more correct from a liturgical-historical standpoint than that of our Agenda, and because it has been adopted not only by our sister English synod, but has also been introduced, more or less completely, and is in use, by a considerable number of our own congregations.

"'In the name and on behalf of the Arkansas and West Tennessee Pastoral and Teachers' Conference: H. W. Bartels, Martin J. Brüggemann, W. C. Schrader, G. O. Hennig.'

"The Western District supports the request for a uniform English liturgy.

"The committee recommends that the Synod, in agreement with this petition, resolve as follows:

"Resolved, that a committee be appointed which, in conjunction with the 'Commission for the Revision of the German Agenda,' shall prepare an English liturgy and submit it to the Reverend Synod at its next convention.

"A committee devoted to the Reverend Synod:
"Fr. Brust.
"J. H. C. Käppel.
"W. Schaller."

Since this report could only be taken up by the Reverend Synod in its final hour, there was no time, after the whole report had been read aloud, to subject all its parts to a thorough discussion.

Of the proposed rules and measures, the third, the fourth, and the seventh were explicitly adopted.

Everything else was explicitly handed over to the new commission for disposition.