# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1911_S312
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...eral *Präses* [president], who adds any suggestions and remarks he
thinks fit.

9. The General *Präses* has a report on the state of affairs in all
synodical departments published from time to time in the *Lutheraner*.
(This does not prevent the individual committees from likewise
reporting in the *Lutheraner* or issuing an appeal; rather, it becomes
their duty to do so whenever specific synodical resolutions require
it, or whenever, in their judgment, circumstances call for it. In
general, the missionaries, especially our traveling preachers, should
be urgently encouraged to send in reports of their work for
publication quite often.)

10. The General *Präses* shall have the right, whenever in his
judgment it is necessary or advantageous, to call the members of the
Presidial College together for a meeting and to submit to them for
deliberation whatever questions and measures may be at hand. —

The advantages of such an organization of the Presidial College are
evident. The General *Präses* would at all times have an overview of
the Synod's entire activity and would not first have to obtain it
through much correspondence and inquiry. From the commissioners, who
occupy themselves chiefly with one particular department, we could
expect a good deal of sound advice that would otherwise have occurred
to no one. In the meetings of the Presidial College, all the Synod's
fields of work would be properly represented. In special cases, this
college could therefore easily decide where, at a given time, the
Synod ought to apply its strength with particular zeal.

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.

Union of the English and the German Synod.

In the synodical report of the last General Synod, which met at Fort
Wayne in 1908, the following is found on page 108: "Resolved, that we
consider a union with the English Synod very desirable; that we shall
not now deliberate on the manner in which this union is to take place,
but that the German Synod shall appoint a committee to confer about it
with the English Synod and to report back to us at our next
convention, as well as to make specific proposals; that Prof. F.
Bente, Vice-*Präses* J. W. Miller, and Mr. W. Schütz shall constitute
this committee."