# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1911_S209
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13th Delegate Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States, 1911. 209

occasion, extend the heartfelt congratulations of many thousand
Lutherans who do not belong to your Synod's fellowship. There are,
in our General Synod and in the Wisconsin Synod, a large number of
pastors who once sat as students at Walther's feet and remember
him with grateful love. But there is no pastor in our circles who has
not, in some way, gained great benefit, for his own person and for
his ministry, from what God accomplished through Walther. I have
also to convey a special greeting from the faculty of our
preachers' seminary; as it happens, all three members of that
faculty received their entire theological seminary training under
Walther's leadership and predominant influence. How, then, should
we not gladly express our participation in your festive joy? All of us
in the aforementioned synodical bodies and in the aforementioned
faculty take this occasion to confess anew our allegiance to Walther
as an outstanding representative of the pure doctrine of the divine
Word, whose work God has graciously set to the great blessing of
His whole Church on earth. We bear witness to our full unity of
faith with the Synod that keeps Dr. Walther in blessed memory as
its greatest teacher, and we express the hope that we shall always
remain on the common foundation on which we now stand. May the
holding of this year's Walther celebration also contribute to this, in
that it powerfully reminds us of Walther's principle: God's Word
and Luther's teaching! —


SOLI DEO GLORIA! [To God alone the glory!]

[Signature at the foot of the page: "14" — a printer's sheet signature, not a folio.]