# Synodical Conference Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1900_S59
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of the Ev. Luth. Synodical Conference of North America. 1900. 59

On the reports of the Michigan Synod of the year 1896, of the Minnesota Synod of the year 1898, of the Illinois District of the year 1897 and of the Central District of the year 1898 the Committees appointed for them had not reported.

The report of the Committee on the synodical report of the Kansas District of the year 1897 was given to a further Committee for report. The report of this second Committee, which was adopted by the Synodical Conference [*Synodalconferenz*], reads as follows:

The Committee to which the committee report on the synodical report of the Kansas District of the Reverend Missouri Synod of the year 1897 was handed over recommends that the said committee report be laid aside, but that the following declaration be sent to the President [*Präses*] of the Kansas District in the name of the Synodical Conference through its Secretary:

"The Synodical Conference calls attention to the fact that the extension of the concept 'doctrinal proceedings' [*Lehrverhandlungen*] to the souls of our fathers translated into the triumphant church, as has happened in the synodical address published in the synodical report of the Kansas District of the year 1897, nevertheless lacks sufficient scriptural ground." R. Pieper.
J. P. Köhler.
A. L. Gräbner.

The committee report on the synodical report of the Michigan District of the year 1897 was likewise referred to the above Committee for careful consideration and report. The report of this second Committee reads thus:

On the objections with regard to the report of the Michigan District of the Reverend Missouri Synod your Committee has the following to report:

1. Because in the report in question a good deal of obscurity prevails about the affair of Pastor J. Becker, which cannot be removed even by the material at present obtainable, we propose that the Reverend Synodical Conference give no judgment on this matter, but leave the further explanation to the District of the Reverend Missouri Synod concerned.

2. As to the dissent contained in those objections regarding the exegetical argumentation in Pastor Bernthal's lecture on marriage with a deceased wife's sister [Schwagerehe: marriage with a sister-in-law], it is well to hold to the principle that the Synodical Conference does not wish to place every single exegetical presentation under censure. As long as the exegesis does not rest on a methodologically incorrect treatment of Scripture and no false doctrine is covered by it, it is not the task of this assembly to rebuke it, although we hold fast that a passage of Scripture can have only One genuine sense.
R. Pieper.
J. P. Köhler.
A. L. Gräbner.