# Synodical Conference Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1920_S17
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of the Ev. Luth. Synodical Conference of North America. 1920. 17

"Since we still have two weeks of vacation, and it would be possible for us to meet before school begins, I hasten to communicate the foregoing to you, and ask you, if your state of health permits, for a prompt answer."

Thereupon Dr. Stub replied on 25 August 1916:

"Your letter concerning a prompt meeting with the committee of the Synodical Conference I laid before our Church Council at its last session. The Church Council resolved that I should not take part in any conference of this kind for some time, since after two operations and eleven weeks in the hospital I should have as much rest as possible. I have had to give up even my professorship for next year. This month I have not been able to sleep a night without sleeping medicine.

"It seemed to our Church Council that there was no hurry about this meeting."

The reply of your committee on 30 August 1916 to this letter of Dr. Stub read:

"We regret that a prompt meeting of our committees is impossible for the reasons given in your esteemed letter.

"We leave the determination of the time and place for this meeting to you and ask you, as soon as you find yourselves in a position to do so, to inform us when you wish the meeting."

Until March 1917 your committee received no suggestion whatever from the Norwegian colloquists toward a discussion of the doctrinal differences pending between the Rev. Synodical Conference and the Norwegian Synod. For the month of June 1917 a great Norwegian church assembly was planned at St. Paul, at which the actual union of the three Norwegian bodies — the old Norwegian Synod, the United Church and the Hauge Synod — was to take place. Your committee considered with President Gausewitz the question whether a last heroic attempt should not be made on its part to gain a hearing with the Norwegian Synod, and whether your committee should not appear at the assembly of the Norwegian Synod in St. Paul and communicate to it the Synodical Conference's objections to the Norwegian "Opgjör." Lengthy negotiations, which extended into May 1917, made this attempt appear precarious, and your committee gave it up, but agreed on sending the following letter of 10 May 1917 to Dr. Stub:

[Printed in English.]

“The committee appointed by the Synodical Conference to confer with the Norwegian Synod or any representative of same in regard to the Madison Agreement (Opgjoer) appeals to you once more to call a meeting of your committee for a conference with us. We feel that we are wearying you, but we have no choice in the matter, and, moreover, believe that we are consulting not only our own, but