# Synodical Conference Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1873_S5
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...ber, J. Schmidt, J. Lehner, J. Bundenthal, J. H. Jox, P. G. M. Schumm, S. F. C. F. Stock, G. M. Zucker, L. E. Knief, A. Crull, A. Krafft, Ph. Fleischmann, Fr. Köstering, L. Dulitz, F. Steinbach, J. F. Niethammer, G. Reichardt and Dr. W. Sihler; further: Director O. Hanser, Rector G. Schick, Vicar Herm. Bartels, the candidates for the holy ministry E. W. Kähler and C. A. Germann, and the teachers L. Steinbach, C. Strieder, C. Grahl, J. Riedel, H. Ungemach, D. Fechtmann, P. Meyn, C. Hentzschel, G. Grimm, D. Lindemann, H. Rolf, C. Jahn, C. Nahrwold, W. v. Renner, H. Leeser and L. Selle.

The election of the officers of the Synodical Conference [*Synodal⸗Conferenz*] for the current year resulted as follows:

Prof. W. F. Lehmann ................................ President.
Pastor E. A. Brauer ............................ Vice-President.
Prof. C. A. T. Selle ............................ Secretary.*
Mr. Joh. W. Schmidt (Youngstown, O.)... Treasurer.

Church Fellowship.

Most of the morning sessions were devoted to discussion of the above subject, the following eighteen theses, together with the related "Preliminary Remarks," having been laid before the Conference:

Theses on Church Fellowship.

Preliminary Remark to the following Theses.

The term "church fellowship" is not treated here in the wider sense. For in and according to that sense, on the ground of the confession of Holy Scripture as the Word of God, a certain church fellowship already exists among all congregations standing in this confession, over against heathens, Jews and Mohammedans.

Rather, this term is taken here in the narrower sense, as the fellowship of the Evangelical Lutheran congregations over against the more or less corrupted churchly communions that hold false belief.

Thesis 1.

The only inward bond of fellowship between the individual Lutheran congregations among the many peoples and languages is the true,

* Pastor H. F. Belser was appointed assistant secretary for a few sessions.