# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1911_S310
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...The Synod should authorize him to undertake travel, so
that, whenever it seems advantageous to the General *Präses*
[president] and to him, he can confer in person with district officers,
with conferences, with individual congregations or groups of
congregations that desire his services, give lectures on the Synod's
work, impress the Synod's needs urgently upon Christians, and so try to
awaken in them a sense of personal responsibility for the progress of
the good work. In short, it would be his duty, through spoken and
written encouragement of a truly evangelical kind, to work toward
raising the funds approved by the Synod and carrying out the
synodical resolutions connected with them.

It would by no means be absolutely necessary for this first
vice-president to be a trained financier. He could be given a finance
committee of three businessmen, which would also include the treasurer
of the General Synod, and this finance committee could assist him with
advice and action in carrying out his office.

3. The remaining three vice-presidents would then each have to attend
two district synods — in exceptional cases three. This reduction in
their workload would make it possible for them to serve the Synod
without being taken away from their congregations for too long a time.

With due respect,

The Pastoral Conference of Fort Wayne and Vicinity.
F. W. Franke, Chairman.
Wm. E. Moll, Secretary.

The Committee: J. W. Miller.
L. W. Dorn.

Concerning the Organization of the Presidial College.

To the Reverend General Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States,
assembled as the 13th Delegate Synod at St. Louis, Mo., in May 1911.

The undersigned conference ventures to submit the following to the
Reverend Synod:

The General *Präses* should at all times be able to gain an overview
of the state of affairs in the various departments of synodical work
with ease. This can be achieved if we bring the many committees, which
now exist separately, into connection with one another. We would ask
the Synod to consider whether some such arrangement as the following
might not be advantageous and easy to carry out.