# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1917_S75
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Ey. Luth. Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States. 1917.
INTERSYNODICAL MATTERS.

AMALGAMATION OF SYNODS.

The Committee appointed by Synod at its sessions in 1914 re-
‘ported as‘ follows: —

The Committee appointed by the esteemed President of Synod
(see 1914 report, p.175) has endeavored to accomplish the purpose
of its appointment, and begs to submit to Synod the following: —

After holding four meetings, in which the matter of amalgama-
tion of all synods confessing the true faith was most carefully con-
sidered and weighed, your Committee. met on May 5, 1915, with
a similar committee of the General Evangelical Lutheran Synod of

‘Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan, and Other States. Three sessions
were held, in which the plans of each committee anent this matter
were very carefully considered. Both committees came to the con-
clusion that a closer union of the synods now forming the Synodical
Conference is desirable, such union to be brought about by the amal-
gamation of these synods into one general body. The following
basis was agreed upon: —

1. All synods forming the Synodical Conference shall disband.

2. The proposed new body shall be known as “The Evangelical
Lutheran Synodical Conference of North America.”

3. The thus reorganized Synodical Conference shall take charge
of, and administer, all general missions.

4. This Synodical Conference shall take over the administration
and maintenance of the publication concerns.

5. This Synodical Conference shall take over the administration
and maintenance of the theological seminaries.

6. If a District or Districts in- whose territory there is a pre-
paratory school (“Gymnasium”) should desire to take over the ad-
ministration and maintenance of such school, the General Body shall
give the control of that school over to such District or Districts.

7. All property of the present synods shall be transferred to the
new body.

8. The General Body shall be divided into State or District
Synods.

Since that meeting the Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Wis-
consin, Minnesota, Michigan, and Other States, assembled in regular
session in July, 1916, has adopted the following resolution and
-amendment thereto: —

“Inasmuch as our Synod is already divided into Districts, and
the union in our General Body has prospered and the plan for the
consolidation or amalgamation of all synods within the Synodical