# Synodical Conference Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1912_S14
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14 Proceedings of the twenty-fourth convention

to God's Word and thereby to ward off all our own thoughts and all perverse speech. In this we are to help one another in humility. Second, we want to ask God for grace that, as in hearty humility, so also with clarity and decisiveness we may bear witness to the doctrine of the apostles and prophets and uncover and reject strange doctrine. In this way we strive in the right manner for the unity of the Christian Church and for the removal of harmful division. May God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit so ordain, praised forever! Amen.

Proceedings.

I. Concerning our relationship to the Honorable Ev. Luth. Norwegian Synod,

Prof. Aug. Pieper, Prof. W. H. T. Dau, P. W. Lüssenhop, Dr. F. Pieper, Director J. Schaller, Dr. G. Stöckhardt and Prof. L. Fürbringer were appointed as a committee to submit certain points for the discussion. After a thorough discussion extending over several sessions, which on the committee's recommendation was based on the so-called "Opgjör" [Norwegian: settlement, "Opgjør"] of the Norwegian synods, the committee's report was finally adopted in the following wording:

1. Committee Report.

For two years the church press of the Norwegian Lutheran church bodies of America has carried numerous reports about a movement that aims at establishing a relationship of fellow-believers and church fellowship between the said church bodies. According to the most recent reports this movement has advanced so far that there is prospect that the goal aimed at will be reached.
Taking part in this movement are on the one hand those Norwegian Lutherans who agree with the Ev. Luth. Synodical Conference in doctrine and practice and stand with it in church fellowship, and on the other hand those Norwegian Lutherans who thirty years ago and since have declared that they do not agree with the doctrine of the Ev. Luth. Synodical Conference, especially with its doctrine of conversion and election of grace [*Gnadenwahl*], and have therefore opposed us, and who therefore do not stand in church fellowship with the Ev. Luth. Synodical Conference.
It is therefore obvious that any union between Norwegian Lutherans who are our fellow-believers and those who are not our fellow-believers concerns us, the members of the Ev. Luth. Synodical Conference, and compels us to become clear on the matter