# Synodical Conference Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1912_S24
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24 Verhandlungen der vierundzwanzigſten Verſammlung

your side and on ours the sole and pure truth of the divine Word
and the Lutheran Confessions may be confessed in firm, clear, and
definite terms, and maintained and defended against all error, in
order that consciences which are bound by God's Word and the
Lutheran Confessions may be set at rest, and in order that the unity
of faith existing among us may be preserved.
Accordingly, we pray your venerable Synod, for the sake of our
Confessions,
a) To eliminate from Theses 1—3 of the “Opgjör” the co-
ordination of the so-called first and second form of doctrine, because
only the first form represents the truth of the Scriptures and of the
Confessions, while the second form is not founded in God's Word
and the confessional writings of the Lutheran Church, and hence
is not entitled to such recognition in the Church.
b) Inasmuch as the present state of affairs in our American
Lutheran Church demands a proper antithesis to synergistic doctrine,
we pray you to take steps to bring about a rejection of the teaching
that man's conduct, in particular, his omission of the so-called willful
resistance, either by his natural powers or by power conferred by
divine grace, is the reason by which we may explain why some are
converted and elected rather than others, as our opponents in the
American Lutheran Church teach.
c) We pray you to enter into a fraternal discussion with us,
according to the Scriptures and Confessions and in the spirit of
truth and love, of your former theses on the Call and Conversion and
your present theses on Election.
We ask and pray God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the
great and only Lord of the Church, that He may grant that this
fraternal letter which was demanded of us by our sense of duty and
our conscience may find a willing ear in your venerable Synod, and
that He may direct this entire affair so as to make it redound to
the glory of His name and the salvation of many souls. We have,
moreover, elected three delegates who are to present orally what we
have stated in these presents.
In the name and by the order of the Evangelical Lutheran
Synodical Conference of America,
[Signed.] C. GAUSEWITZ, President.
JOHN MEYER, Secretary.
Saginaw, Mich., August 19, 1912.

6. Als Delegaten,

die das, was in dem Schreiben ausgeführt iſt, auch mündlich vor der
Ehrw. Ev.⸗Luth. Norwegiſchen Synode vertreten ſollen, wurden Prof.
W. H. T. Dau, Prof. D. F. Pieper und Direktor J. Schaller erwählt.