# Synodical Conference Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1912_S58
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58 Proceedings of the twenty-fourth convention

Nebraska District: Rev. K. Kretzschmar, Hastings, Nebr.
North Illinois District: Rev. A. Burgdorf, Chicago, Ill.
North Dakota and Montana District: Rev. R. Hilgendorf, Hankinson, N. Dak.
Oregon and Washington District: Rev. H. C. Ebeling, Gaston, Oreg.
Eastern District: Rev. W. Brand, Pittsburg, Pa.
South Dakota District: Rev. J. D. Ehlen, Scotland, S. Dak.
South Illinois District: Rev. E. Koch, Okawville, Ill.
Southern District: Prof. C. Niermann, New Orleans, La.
Texas District: Rev. G. W. Fischer, El Paso, Tex.
Western District: The Commission.
Wisconsin District: Rev. B. Sievers, Milwaukee, Wis.
Central Illinois District: Rev. W. Heyne, Decatur, Ill.

From the District Synod of Nebraska: Rev. J. Witt, Norfolk, Nebr.

From the Wisconsin Synod: Prof. M. Eickmann, Watertown, Wis.

From the Slovak Synod: Rev. J. Pelikan, Pleasant City, O.

From the Norwegian Synod: Rev. O. P. Vangsnes, Story City, Iowa.

VII. Petitions.

1. Prof. W. H. T. Dau presented, on behalf of four pastoral conferences, cases of encroachments by the Roman Church, with the request that the Synodical Conference [*Synodalkonferenz*] take steps toward a remedy.

The matter was referred to a committee. The following report was read and adopted:

Saginaw, Mich., August 16, 1912.
To the Honorable Synodical Conference.

Your committee, which was charged with the review and evaluation of the petitions in which encroachments of the Roman Church in the political and other civic spheres of interest are discussed, ventures to recommend the following propositions to you for adoption:

1. The Synodical Conference declares that it regards the manifest encroachments of the Roman Church into politics and into other civic affairs of the country, the states and the cities as a part of Antichristianity, which can lead only to the injury of our people and of its freedom.

2. It therefore exhorts all Christians who belong to it, also with regard to this matter, to seek the welfare of the city according to God's will,