# Synodical Conference Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1882_S79
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Thereupon the Norwegian delegates who had voted for the committee report submitted the following declaration:

In assenting to this, we wish it to be stated as our conviction that the old teachers of the church who did not wish to draw the above-named consequence also did not connect a false doctrine with that expression, and that we therefore also do not wish to refuse church fellowship to those who believe they must retain that expression in the sense of those old teachers and, like them, reject that consequence as false.

(Signed:) Stub. Torgersen.
Thorsen. Koren.

Eleventh Session.

Tuesday afternoon, October 10.

Pastor Koren further submitted the following declaration:

It stands in an earlier protocol, in a rejoinder of Prof. Schmidt (see page 48), that he was not disciplined in his synod. At that time there was no opportunity to go into that. I ask now that I be permitted to remark that Prof. Schmidt was reproached in our synod, both publicly and privately, especially at conferences, with how great a wrong he had made himself guilty of in this controversy, both through his publications generally and through his manner and way. His conduct toward various congregations was essentially unknown to us. Official synodical discipline in the strictest sense has admittedly not been able to be exercised.

Professors Stub and Larsen and Pastors Torgersen and Thorsen concurred in this declaration.

Thereupon, with regard also to the presentation of the doctrine of election of grace as it has taken place within the Missouri Synod, it was

Resolved, that the Synodical Conference confess the thirteen theses of the Hon. Synod of Missouri, Ohio and Other States on election of grace, as they were drawn up and adopted at the delegate synod of last year.

Only Pastor Muus voted against. Pastor Torgersen declared that he had indeed abstained from voting on account of the reason he had named earlier, but that he did not mean by this to say that he could not accept the doctrine of the 13 theses; he must rather confess that he personally agreed from the whole heart with the 13 propositions.