# Synodical Conference Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1882_S22
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new conflicts and divisions are brought about, so gratifying is it also that not everything bows its knee to this Baal."

Page 355 ff. contains an article with the heading: "How Missouri Agrees with the Calvinists in the Main Point."

On page 415 we read: "This is the end of the song of this new-Missourian fanaticism. Like all spiritualism it ends in the end in loathsome spiritual pride and spirit-boasting."

Vol. III, p. 3: "Our opponents and many a short-sighted onlooker at the doctrinal conflict now raging may of course lament it or also smile at it and mock, when we regard the present doctrinal position of the Missouri Synod simply as a defection from the pure Gospel," etc.

Ibid., p. 7: "Here is the point where Missouri has thrown away the pure Gospel, as our fathers taught it, and has accepted the terrible doctrine of the Calvinists of an election unto salvation according to the mere will of God."

Ibid., p. 8: "Missouri has in this core doctrine of God's eternal will of salvation fallen away from the pure Gospel and has, in this question of the relation between the appropriation of Christ's merit, which takes place in time, and the eternal decree of salvation, quite decidedly and emphatically thrown in its lot with the arch-enemies of the Lutheran church, the Calvinists. We know well that the St. Louis seducers employ every craft and cunning to cover up this defection as far as possible."

Ibid., p. 284: "The new error of Missouri indeed lets the universal counsel of salvation stand apparently and in words, but it rejects the doctrine of its true power and efficacy also for all the non-elect or unconverted as a synergistic-Pelagian one."

Ibid., p. 285: "They (the Missourians) condemn it, after all, basically as error, that all men can be converted through the Word."

Finally we read in the last number, of 15 October of this volume, which however had already appeared on 1 October, under the heading: "Does Missouri Teach an Irresistible Grace?", p. 305, the following: "This question has now become necessary, although it is not the original or chief question of the controversy. Missouri has, that is, its own tactics and follows them exactly also in the present conflict. It seeks to divert attention from its own ruinous heresy and to gain suitable points of attack against its assailants."

The whole essay is concluded on p. 320 by the following words: "All respect for the honesty of the Calvinists, who openly confess the doctrine of irresistible grace. This irresistible grace is and remains the other half of every absolute election; for if the election is unconditional,