# Synodical Conference Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1896_S65
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of the Ev. Luth. Synodical Conference [*Synodalconferenz*] of North America. 1896. 65

just as the Michigan Synod as such had joined the Synodical Conference, so the Synodical Conference could also negotiate with the Michigan Synod as such about its affairs, without encroaching on the rights of the Joint Synod [*Allgemeine Synode*].

Since, however, the persons with whom the Synodical Conference could have dealt in this matter were not present, nothing else remained for the Synodical Conference than to send a commission to the Synod of Michigan, and such a commission of five members was appointed and charged,

"1. to attend the next synodical assembly, in and with which those named in the complaint will meet, and to hear what they have to say to the complaints made against them;

"2. if it finds the accusations to be well founded, to make the earnest attempt to bring those who have erred to rights and to hold them to it, by instruction and admonition from and with God's Word, to acknowledge the wrong committed as such and to make it good again to the best of their ability;

"3. to report as soon as possible, through the organs of the individual synods belonging to the Synodical Conference, on the result of their inquiries and the success or possible failure of their efforts, as well as in general on the state of affairs in the Michigan Synod, and so to put the remaining synods and their members in a position to know what stance they are to take toward the Michigan Synod."

Elected as members of the Commission were Prof. A. Gräbner, Prof. R. Pieper, President H. Succop, Teacher A. Beyer, Mr. J. Nüchterlein; as substitutes President P. Brand, President C. C. Schmidt, Pastor H. Sprengeler, Teacher E. H. Dreß, Mr. H. A. Christiansen.

Revision of the English Catechism.

Since the wish had been put forward on the part of the English Synod of Missouri and Other States that the translation of the Small Catechism published and recognized by the Synodical Conference be subjected to a revision, it was

resolved that a committee be appointed which with all care shall go through this translation and lay the result before the Synodical Conference.

Elected to this committee were: Prof. A. L. Gräbner, President F. Kügele, President C. Gausewitz, Prof. A. W. Meyer, Prof. W. H. T. Dau.

Petition of the Reverend Norwegian Synod.

In a petition the Reverend Norwegian Synod set forth that for several years it had maintained a mission school for Indian children at Wittenberg, Wis., but that a fairly considerable