# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1917_S3
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

oceeding’s of the Fifteenth Delegate Synod

held at

Milwaukee, Wis. June 20—29, 1917.

j. N. SF.

he Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other
Rictes assembled for its thirtieth Convention (being the fifteenth
Melegate Synod) in Milwaukee, Wis., on June 20th. The opening
ice was held in Trinity Church, the Rev. H. Sprengeler, Pastor,
10 a.m. The sermon was preached by the Rev. Vice-President
‘Hileendorf from Ps. 126, 3: “The Lord hath done great things
tus, whereof we are glad.” Very impressive was this whole service
its appealing sermon, the powerful choral song of the vast as-
blage, including Luther’s “Ein’ Feste Burg,” and the fine work
f the choirs.

At 2 p.m., the business sessions were opened with Scripture
ind prayer. First of all, the venerable President, the Rev. F. Pfoten-
hauer, read his presidential address, which we have translated and
rewith give in full: —

President Pfotenhauer’s Address.

< Our help is in the name of the Lord, who made heaven and
h. Amen.

fonorable and beloved fathers and brethren in the. Lord.

Our Synod meets this year under very extraordinary conditions.
Ein the world a terrible war is raging, in which nearly all the nations
f.the earth are engaged, so. that streams of blood are flowing daily,
thousands, yea, millions, of human beings are being cut down
the sword, or by famine and pestilence. And in the Church
parations are being made for a grand Jubilee, to wit, the Four-
hundredth Anniversary of the beginning of the Reformation of the
Ghurch by Dr. Martin Luther. Both the World War and the Church
bilee affect us deeply, since we are both citizens of our land and
mbers of the Church. ;

“With' respect to the war, we Christians must use all diligence
have our judgments fashioned by the Word of God, which gives