# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1911_S254
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through respectable, modern new buildings! No one who knows the state of affairs at Addison can close their mind to this conviction.

But we would like to go a step further still. We believe the time has come for the seminary to be separated from the preparatory school and relocated to a larger city. The reasons for this are numerous. We would gladly present them to the Honorable Synod and ask that it give us the opportunity to do so. But so that the Honorable Synod may know at once that no expense for land would arise for it from relocating part of the institution, should Chicago or a suburb adjoining Chicago be chosen for that purpose, we hereby inform you that a large number of Christians here are prepared to offer the Honorable Synod, as a gift, a large and excellently situated tract of land. We add to this offer that both the large Chicago Pastoral Conference and the even larger Chicago Teachers' Conference, both of which bodies were informed of the above, most heartily approve the plan and are very glad that the signatures enabling the said proposal came in so willingly.

Imploring the Honorable Synod's grace and success in all its deliberations, and especially wisdom in this important matter, signed, in the name of many fellow Lutherans in Chicago and the surrounding area,

Their Executive Committee.
By its commission:
W. Schlake, Chairman.
Ferdinand Sievers, Secretary.
Chicago, Ill., March 27, 1911.

Relocation of the Seminary Department at Addison. —
Eighth Professorship at St. Louis.

To the Honorable Delegate Synod of the German Ev. Lutheran Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States, assembled at St. Louis, Mo., from May 10 to 20, 1911.

The New York District Conference takes the liberty of most vigorously supporting the memorial of the brothers in Chicago concerning the relocation of the seminary department of our institution at Addison to Chicago, for which purpose a suitable lot is to be given as a gift.

The said conference would further like to recommend to the Honorable Synod, for its deliberation, the question of whether it might not be desirable to create an eighth professorship for our theological seminary at St. Louis. The following reasons, among others, seem to speak for it: