# Synodical Conference Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1902_S74
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74 Proceedings of the nineteenth convention

In two sessions the question was discussed vigorously: "Why should the Synodical Conference [*Synodalconferenz*] found an institution for the training of colored preachers and teachers?" Without reaching a decision on the establishment of a full seminary, the Synodical Conference adopted the following resolutions:

1. A preparatory institution for Negro pupils shall be established.

2. Everything that belongs to the carrying out of this resolution is left to the Commission for the Negro Mission.

3. Yet this Commission shall as soon as ever possible set up one or two institutions of this kind.

The treasurer's report of the Negro Mission, together with the certification by the examining body concerned, was read and adopted. It will be found as an appendix to this report.

II. The English Catechism.

The Committee which had been commissioned to review the English translation of Luther's Small Catechism and to propose desirable changes presented the following submission:

To the Honorable Ev. Luth. Synodical Conference of North America.

Reverend and beloved fathers and brethren in the Lord!

Your Committee for the revision of the English text of the Enchiridion, appointed in the year 1896 at Evansville, Ind., asks to be permitted to submit the following report:

At its previous convention at Bay City, Mich., the Honorable Synodical Conference authorized the Committee to hold a special meeting for the purpose of completing the work entrusted to it. This meeting took place in January of the year 1901 in the library of the Concordia Seminary at St. Louis. Your Committee devoted six full days to this work. A trial printing of the revised text was prepared at Concordia Publishing House and sent to the pastors and teachers of the Synodical Conference with the request to subject the changes made to careful examination and to let any objections and wishes reach the Committee. Later an appeal to the same effect was published in the various synodical organs of the Honorable Synodical Conference.

Eight letters reached Your Committee, containing criticisms, corrections and wishes, namely four from conferences and four from individuals. Besides these, two other letters reached Your Committee, namely a protest of a teacher against alteration of the text and a request and admonition of the New Orleans Pastoral Conference, yet of all alterations of the present catechism text