# Synodical Conference Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1892_S49
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of the Ev. Luth. Synodical Conference of North America. 1892. 49

Application for Admission of the Honorable Synod of Michigan.

To the Honorable Ev. Luth. Synodical Conference [*Synodalconferenz*] of North America.
Honorable Synodical Conference!

On the occasion of its annual convention recently held, the Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Michigan unanimously adopted the following resolution, which is hereby submitted to the honorable Synodical Conference in becoming deference:

Resolved, since we know ourselves to be at one with the doctrine of the Evangelical Lutheran Synodical Conference of North America and are also earnestly striving to remove all defects in practice, to address an application for admission to the honorable Synodical Conference, which is to meet this summer in New York.

With due respect,
C. Aug. Lederer, President.
A. Moussa, Secretary.
J. M. Gross, Treasurer.

With regard to the application of the honorable Synod of Michigan concerning admission into the Synodical Conference, the undersigned committee permits itself to report the following:

Since only such synods can be received into the Synodical Conference as share its confession, it appears first of all to be the proper course that the Synodical Conference appoint a person from its midst who, before a few witnesses, shall hold a doctrinal conversation [*Lehrgeſpräch*] with representatives of the Michigan Synod.

At the same time, however, the committee permits itself to point out the following:

1. The honorable Synod of Michigan has declared by synodical resolution that it knows itself to be at one with the doctrine of the Synodical Conference and is earnestly striving to remove all defects still present in practice.

2. Representatives of the honorable Synods of Wisconsin and Minnesota have already arranged doctrinal discussions with representatives of the Synod of Michigan, which produced a result satisfactory to them.

We therefore leave it to the consideration of the Synodical Conference whether, in its opinion, the position of the Michigan Synod has not already been made sufficiently clear by what has already been done, and whether the Synodical Conference may therefore proceed without further ado to the admission of the honorable Synod of Michigan.

Respectfully,
the Committee
H. C. Schwan.        C. J. Albrecht.
A. F. Ernst.         Jos. Schmidt.
W. Dallmann.         Jobst H. Büning.
J. J. Bernthal.      H. A. Christiansen.
F. Pieper.