# Synodical Conference Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1877_S41
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subject work out proposals and present them for final deliberation still during this year's convention of the synod.

To the same committee was at the same time referred Point 1, c of the first committee report. The report of this committee reads as follows:

Your committee takes the liberty of proposing to the venerable Synod that a committee be appointed which, together with a similar committee to be appointed by the venerable General Synod of Missouri, is to discuss and if possible draw up an agreement plan on approximately the following basis, which would then serve the two respective synods as a proposal.

a. The two General Synods [*Allgem. Synoden*] of Ohio and Missouri are to continue to exist provisionally until the formation of state synods can be carried through generally, toward which we wish from now on to work with all fidelity.

b. The boundary line between these two General Synods shall be the eastern boundary of Michigan, Indiana and Kentucky and the northern boundary of Kentucky, Tennessee and North Carolina, — and the territory of the General Synod of Ohio east and north of these boundary lines shall, so far as practicable, be divided into state synods; within which delimitation, however, the English Districts of our synod are provisionally not included.

c. Both General Synods shall have a joint preachers' and schoolteachers' seminary, which shall stand under the supervision of the Synodical Conference, — provided that at least two English professors are appointed in the preachers' seminary and that adequate provision for English is also made in the schoolteachers' seminary.

d. The respective colleges shall be conducted according to one and the same curriculum, in which provision is also made for thorough training in the German and English languages.

Respectfully, the committee,
M. Loy, W. F. Lehmann, C. H. L. Schütte,
H. F. Belser, G. F. H. Meiser.

The synod took up this report for deliberation; and after it had been gone through point by point, it was adopted as a whole. Thereupon, in accordance with the proposal of this subcommittee, the synod elected a committee for consultation with the venerable General Missouri Synod on the above basis, consisting of:

Prof. M. Loy, Prof. W. F. Lehmann, Pastors G. F. H. Meiser, H. Lang, F. zur Mühlen."

6. The venerable Synod of Wisconsin and Other States:

It declares: 1. "That it heartily approves and endorses the original plan of uniting all orthodox Lutherans within the Synodical Conference into self-governing, independent state synods."