# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1914_S3
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Proceedings of the Fourteenth Delegate Synod,

assembled at

Chicago, Ill.,

from May 6 to May 16, 1914.

J. N. J. [In the Name of Jesus]

In the Ev. Lutheran St. Luke's Church, at the corner of Belmont and Greenview Avenues, Chicago, Ill., the 29th convention of the General Synod — the 14th Delegate Synod — of the German Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States was most solemnly opened with a worship service held on Wednesday morning, May 6, 1914, at 10:30. Vice-President J. W. Miller preached on Romans 1:16 and exhorted the great company of synodical delegates and the other fellow believers who had hurried there from near and far:

We want to remain with the Gospel alone, so as to build up and preserve the Church!
For
1. that is what our God wants of us;
2. then we will have the right success in our work.

This sermon, together with the precise, powerful singing of the assembled congregation and the solid, devout rendering of Psalm 19 and Psalm 23 by the choir of Chicago's Lutheran teachers, will remain unforgettable to everyone who took part in this opening service.

Even before this service the worthy congregational deputies had already turned in their credentials. The Credentials Committee finished its work before the afternoon session began.

The reading of the roll of names was followed by the synodical address of the General President, F. Pfotenhauer, and his report on the past triennium.