# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1911_S329
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...the State of Missouri has recognized us as a corporation, and we
count as a lawful body. That even the most secure legal right to
exist can be challenged, and that our incorporation could accordingly
be called into question before a court, is beyond doubt — just as the
most innocent person can be indicted for almost anything. Whether
such a *quo warranto* proceeding against us would result in our
forfeiting our charter is an entirely different question. The
attorneys we have consulted consider it highly unlikely. But so long
as no such annulment of our charter has taken place, we stand as a
*de facto* legitimately incorporated body, and up to now, in every
state where we have bought and sold as an incorporated body, we have
been regarded as legitimate.

Respectfully submitted to the Reverend Synod.
C. F. Obermeyer, Chairman.
Julius A. Friedrich, Secretary.

The Cincinnati Matter.

To the Reverend Delegate Synod, assembled at St. Louis, Mo., in
May 1911.

Report of the Cincinnati Committee.

The committee appointed by the Reverend Delegate Synod in 1908 to
negotiate with the Reverend Wisconsin Synod concerning the Cincinnati
matter ventures to submit the following report:

With the assistance of Pastors P. Brand, C. C. Schmidt, and
H. Speckhard, we have conducted many negotiations with the Wisconsin
Cincinnati Committee and with the Reverend Wisconsin Synod itself.
The negotiations were brought to a close when the Reverend Wisconsin
Synod, in 1909, in our presence, adopted the following resolution:

"Since judging the conduct of our commission would also require
judging the conduct of the officers of the Missouri Synod, we consider
it best to withhold all judgment, but express the wish that the
Missouri Synod, to which the whole case originally belongs, may yet
find ways and means to settle the case in a manner pleasing to God."

In 1910 the Cincinnati matter again came before the Wisconsin Synod,
with the following result. It was resolved:

"1. That the resolution of last year in the Cincinnati matter be
struck out;

"2. That the thanks of the Synod be extended to our committee, which
has worked faithfully and conscientiously in this matter on the
Synod's behalf...