# Synodical Conference Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1920_S20
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20 Proceedings of the twenty-seventh convention

the old position of their synod and spoke out against the union of their synod with the other Norwegian church bodies on the basis of the "Opgjör," with their counsel to the best of its ability.

Your committee did not attend the convention of the Norwegian Synod, so as not to appear provocative and intrusive; but Dr. Stub was notified of the committee's presence in St. Paul by one of its members, and your committee took the opportunity to hold a private discussion also with another member of the Norwegian Synod about the doctrinal differences that were pending.

At the further meetings of the minority party in the Aberdeen Hotel your committee — after the departure of Prof. Schlüter only Dr. Pieper and Prof. Dau — took part as long as doctrinal matters were to be discussed. When the minority, which had not got through with its testimony at the synod, took up the question of an organization of its own for discussion, the members of your committee still present thought that it was in the interest of all concerned that your committee should not take part in this discussion, so that it could not later be reproached that your committee had influenced the minority party to call into being an organization in opposition to the Norwegian Synod. Such an organization has since in fact arisen and knows itself to be at one with us in doctrine and practice, and also maintains brotherly intercourse with the Synodical Conference.

From the committee of the Norwegian Synod, which had still held out to your committee the prospect of a discussion, a letter from Dr. Stub to your committee, dated 22 February 1918, arrived, the content of which is as follows:

[Printed in English.]

“At the last meeting of our Church Council I again brought up the matter about a possible colloquium between the committee of the Norwegian Lutheran Church of America and the committee from the Synodical Conference. The following resolution was unanimously adopted by the Church Council: —

“ ‘Although the Norwegian Lutheran Church of America through its chosen representatives gladly would meet a similar committee of representatives from the Synodical Conference and discuss the doctrines of God's Word with the end in view of coming to an understanding and mutual recognition, the Church Council nevertheless is of the opinion that the opportune time for such a colloquium is hardly at hand. It might easily lead to new controversies and complications, if we were already at this time, immediately after the union, to commence new discussions about the doctrine of election.

“ ‘Our people desire and need peace and rest, and the Church Council therefore, through its President, desires to submit to the dear brethren of the Synodical Conference to postpone these negotiations indefinitely, so that our Church, which lately, through the wonderful