# Synodical Conference Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1890_S34
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34 Proceedings of the thirteenth convention

his leading a Christian life.—No pastor shall be admitted who is a
member of a secret society, etc.

The report was adopted, and with it the General English Lutheran
Conference of Missouri and other States was received into the federation of the Venerable
Synodical Conference [*Synodalconferenz*], as far as this could be done by the body assembled here.

Statistical Appendix to the Report of the Synodical Conference.

At the request of several members of the Conference it was resolved that henceforth
every official report on the proceedings of the Synodical Conference shall be accompanied by
a statistical appendix on the synods belonging to the Synodical Conference,
their congregations, schools, institutions, pastors, etc., and that Pastor C. F. W. Maaß
be appointed statistician.

Opinion on, and Answer to, Two Questions.

Two inquiries had been submitted for an opinion by the Rev. President Fr. Sievers.

The following report of the committee, consisting of Pastor J. H. Sieker,
Prof. A. F. Ernst, Prof. J. Schaller, appointed to consider these inquiries and
to report on them to the Synodical Conference, was adopted in the wording given below
and made the answer to them:

"Inquiry 1 reads: Whether in § 6 of the constitution of the Synodical Conference only
those 'voting members' are meant who are counted among the standing members
of the synod concerned, or whether the number of all those is meant
who were present as 'persons entitled to vote' at the last meeting held by a synod
or synodical district."

Answer: "The Synodical Conference does not ask how many or how
few voting members of a synod or synodical district happened to be present
at the last meeting of such a body; it also leaves it to the individual synods to
make whatever provisions they please concerning the right to vote. The number of delegates
to be sent to the Synodical Conference is to be calculated by the number of
standing voting members, among whom are also to be counted the congregations as such,
insofar as they have the right to be represented by deputies at the synodical meeting."

"Inquiry 2 reads: To what extent may a pastor who, in a particular case, cannot recognize as just the ban
of a sister congregation, or the judgment of a president, receive or not receive
persons who have been excluded and who seek help from him, until the synod has investigated further?"