# Synodical Conference Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1916_S71
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of the Ev. Luth. Synodical Conference of North America. 1916. 71

3. Against the resolutions of the Norwegian Synod just reported, the minority party took a stand in a special meeting in Minneapolis. This special meeting commissioned a committee with the drafting and circulation of a report on the convention of the Norwegian Synod and on the minority's position toward the resolutions adopted there. This report appeared in the Norwegian language and reads as follows in German translation:

"Preliminary Remark. Before the synod members left Minneapolis, a large meeting of minority people elected a committee which was to publish an overview of the synodical convention and of the situation which it has created.

"This commission the committee has tried to fulfil in the present pamphlet.

"There has hardly ever been a church convention to which the Norwegian Lutheran church people in America looked forward with more suspense than this convention of the Norwegian Synod at Minneapolis from the 18th to the 25th of May, 1916.

"Never after any church convention has a greater suspense existed. With right this convention has been called 'a historic convention,' 'one of the most important, if not the most important, of all church conventions that have been held among our people on this side.'

"Admittedly, more or less detailed reports on the proceedings have been published in various papers, but it is not so easy, on the basis of such newspaper notices, to form a complete and faithful picture of what has really happened, and our people ought to receive clear information about the things that give this convention such great significance.

"I.

"Naturally we name in the first place the sweeping resolutions in the matter of union.

"The majority of the synodical convention adopted a constitution of a new body in view and pledged itself to merge into it.

"In case the Hauge Synod should not go along, the convention declared that nevertheless it would unite with the United Church into a new body.

"Further, the majority instructed the Church Council to take the necessary steps to carry the union into effect, transfers of property and, if necessary, a change of the synodical charter, so that 'the legality of the new body in this respect may be above all doubt.'

"Here the question now arises: Did the Synod do right to take these steps in an extraordinary convention?