# Synodical Conference Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1874_S49
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5) Resolved, that Pastor Bünger be requested to publish, from time to time, in all the papers of the synods belonging to the Synodical Conference, reports on the mission among the Chinese.

Evangelical Lutheran Concordia Synod of Virginia.

Pastor H. Wetzel had appeared as delegate of the Evangelical Lutheran Concordia Synod of Virginia, in order to negotiate with the latter about the affiliation of this synod with the Synodical Conference [*Synodalconferenz*]. This matter had been referred to a committee, which was to confer with Pastor Wetzel. The committee thereupon reported:

1) That the documents submitted: synodical proceedings, theses on communion fellowship [*Abendmahlsgemeinſchaft*], secret societies and chiliasm, and the paragraphs of the synodical constitution on the confessional position of the synod, as well as the personal explanations of the delegate, gave clarity enough to be able to declare the Evangelical Lutheran Concordia Synod a body faithful to the confession.

2) Since, however, the said synod has not yet met the requirements of the constitution of our Synodical Conference by formally adopting its constitution, and since also the individual synods of the Synodical Conference have to pass a resolution on the admission of every new synod, according to § 4, the application for admission must of necessity be laid over to a later time.

3) That in the opinion of the committee it is fitting to express, by a resolution, the joy of the Synodical Conference over the faithful confessional position of these brethren of the South and to give them the assurance that, when the said formal requirements are fulfilled, they can be welcomed with joy as our brethren.

4) That, to facilitate the matter, it appears fitting that the Reverend Concordia Synod send a copy of its constitution, together with all its doctrinal proceedings, to the officers of the synods which have to decide on admission into the Synodical Conference.

These four motions the Synodical Conference raised unanimously to a resolution and ordered finally that Professor M. Loy furnish an English translation of them, and that they then be sent as the Conference's answer to the Concordia Synod.

English Lutherans in Southern Missouri. — English School Books.

From a letter of Pastor J. R. Moser the following was communicated:
"At the last meeting of our Conference in Webster County, Mo., some action was had as to the propriety of uniting with the Synodical Conference, and