# Synodical Conference Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1879_S30
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eral Synod of Wisconsin and Other States; it was held advisable, however, to leave this matter entirely to the general synods that might be formed. —

On Point 4 it was remarked: if the Norwegian Lutheran Synod (which cannot join us in state synods because language divides us) takes part in the joint seminary, then it should be obliged to contribute toward the maintenance of the English department, whose services it would indeed also make use of. If the Norwegian synod does not take part, it remains for the two or three general synods to be formed, of the East, Southwest and Northwest, to arrange everything concerning the German and English faculties according to their best judgment. —

On Point 5 it was emphasized: that the matter of the joint seminary to be founded be conceived so that from the two or three general synods to be formed a committee or board be appointed for the administration of the outward affairs of the institution, which would act in the name of the general synod within the limits of authority assigned to it. However, it was held that this point, as well as the question how the two or three general synods to be formed should again unite in a Synodical Conference [*Synodalconferenz*] or in some other advisory larger association, and likewise the settlement of all other points going more into detail, concerning property relations and the like, would have to be brought to a conclusion by a committee elected from all the two or three general synods to be formed. By a similar or the same committee an agreement would also have to be reached with the Norwegian Lutheran Synod regarding the supervision of the joint seminary and the other provisions touching its relation to the joint seminary.

On Point 7 it was remarked that it might well be the case that not all the synods connected with the Synodical Conference would accept the proposal stated above. Should one or the other not be able to consent, the Synodical Conference advises that those synods go confidently to work that can unite for it.

On Point 8: This point is to be understood thus: The entire Synodical Conference holds that the respective synods are to be called upon to approve the proposal in all its essential provisions, and that, if one point in it should not be accepted by a synod, the whole shall be regarded as rejected by it. Although one could not conceal from oneself that it would probably be hard for everyone to leave the old, long-inhabited synodical house of his own, in a certain sense to break with the dear synodical history of the past; although one could not conceal that we have met with all sorts of misgivings and difficulties in the deliberation of this plan in the individual synods