# Synodical Conference Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1920_S19
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of the Ev. Luth. Synodical Conference of North America. 1920. 19

[Printed in English.]
Conference at Toledo in 1916. Our committee is ready to answer any specific charges that may be brought against it because of this report. We suggest that the proper time to discuss this matter would be at our forthcoming meeting.

“In order that no false construction may be put on our action, we wish to advise you that we have been requested to meet at St. Paul with a number of our Norwegian brethren who desire a conference with us. Our commission from the Synodical Conference, both at Milwaukee in 1914 and at Toledo in 1916, instructs us to heed such requests.”

The last remark in this letter was occasioned as follows. A letter dated Minneapolis, Minn., May 24, 1917, reached us. It reads:

“We were sorry to hear that Dr. H. G. Stub again has declared that he will not have time to meet the committee from the Synodical Conference before the Synod meeting.

“Those of us who cannot go along in the new church-body on the present doctrinal basis feel that it would be a great help to our cause if your committee could be present at the Synod in St. Paul, Minn., June 6—9. It would give us a chance to get your advice at the time when we need it most.

“The following pastors join me in asking your committee to come to our meeting, if you can: O. T. Lee, Holden M. Olsen, L. P. Jensen, H. Ingebritson, J. A. Torgerson, and E. Hanson.

“These and a number of other ministers and laymen will meet for consultation at 8 P. M., June 5, in Rooms 224—6 Aberdeen Hotel, St. Paul.

“There would be many more joining in this invitation, but I have not had a chance to consult them since I heard of Dr. Stub being short of time to meet your committee.

(Signed.) “C. N. PETERSON.”

To this urgent request your committee, in agreement with the resolutions adopted by the Rev. *Synodalkonferenz* [Synodical Conference] at Milwaukee and Toledo, felt bound to comply. All the members of your committee therefore went to St. Paul and took part, on the evening of 5 June, in a meeting of minority people — pastors and laymen — from the old Norwegian Synod in the Aberdeen Hotel. At this meeting the points of doctrinal difference between the supporters and the opponents of the Madison Agreement were chiefly discussed, and your committee also learned of many fruitless attempts which the minority party had made to remove these differences. Your committee remained three days in St. Paul and stood by the minority people, who at the convention of the Norwegian Synod, which had meanwhile opened, bore witness for