# Synodical Conference Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1892_S50
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50 Proceedings of the fourteenth convention

In connection with this report it was remarked that a constitution of the Michigan Synod could not be presented, because it had been taken under revision by resolution of the synod, in order to strike out certain passages as necessary. This statement too was entered in the minutes: It is also publicly known that the honorable Synod of Michigan has waged a serious struggle against the unLutheran practice of the General Council. Further, that it holds fast our principles regarding practice and has suffered reproach on that account.

Concerning the doctrinal conversation [*Lehrgeſpräch*] mentioned in the committee's report, the following statement was given: It was held in the first place at the instance of the president of the Wisconsin Synod, with representatives of the latter body [the Michigan Synod] commissioned for the purpose by its president. This step was approved by the two synods concerned.

At this doctrinal discussion the doctrines especially contested in our days were first gone through. The result was the gratifying perception that the honorable Synod of Michigan is far from the giddy notion [*Schwindel*] of newer theologians and of whole synods, as if certain doctrines were not yet fixed, but people were earnestly at work on fixing them. The members of the honorable Michigan Synod present at the doctrinal discussion showed themselves accordingly to be such as stand rightly in doctrine, and their standpoint, according to their statement, is also that of the remaining members of their synod.

It was thereupon

resolved: that the honorable Synod of Michigan be received into the Synodical Conference [*Synodalconferenz*] of North America, with the proviso that, according to the constitution of the Synodical Conference, this resolution be laid before the individual synods connected with it for ratification.

Petition of the Missionary to the Jews G. A. Newmark.

This missionary to the Jews, who works among the Jews of Montreal, Can., and has until now been supported by the honorable Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Synod, had sent to the Synodical Conference a petition, supported by Pastor H. A. Preus, president of that synod, for support of his mission work on the part of the Synodical Conference.

After receiving the report of the committee appointed for the purpose, it was

resolved: to inform the missionary to the Jews, G. A. Newmark, that the Synodical Conference as such conducts no mission to the Jews. The petitioner could, however, turn with his petition to the individual synods belonging to it.