# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1917_S81
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Ev. Luth. Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States. 1917. 81.

2. The Rev: P. Brand, for his many years of faithful services to
Synod as General Vice-President;

3. Architect Chas. F. May, for unselfish and gratis services in
the General Board of Control;

4, All officers whose term of service expired with this con-
vention ; ‘

' §. The congregations and families in Milwaukee that enter-
tained Synod; the committees and choirs that arranged the beau-
tiful Jubilee Service; the good women who served the noonday
meals; and all who in any wise served Synod during the convention;

6. Messrs. Luedke and Pritzlaff, who personally paid for the use
of Plankinton Hall for the full time of the convention;

7. The English and German local press, particularly the Ger-
mania and the Rundschau, for good daily reports and free copies to
delegates. (Other votes of thanks are incorporated at the proper
-place in the proceedings.)

CONDOLENCES

of Synod were transmitted by the Secretary to —

1. The Rev. J. E. A. Mueller, who lay a-dying in Chicago
(Pastor Mueller and congregation had entertained the 1914 Synod) ;
2. Prof. C. J. Heuer, in St. Paul, who has been incapacitated
‘by a second stroke of paralysis.

SERVICES DURING SYNOD.

Friday evening: sermon on missions by Pastor A. H. Kuntz.

~ Sunday forenoon: confessional address by Pastor W. Proehl; main

-. sermon by Pastor H. Grueber. Tuesday evening: sermon on Chris-

*: tian schools by Pastor M. J. Von der Au. Thursday evening: pas-
oral sermon by Pastor F. T. Keller.

JUBILEE SERVICES.

On Sunday, June 24, two beautiful jubilee services were held
"in the. Auditorium, commemorative of the Quadricentennial of the
* Reformation. The festival speakers were: afternoon, German, Dir.
rf. ,W. C. Kohn, of River Forest; English, Prof. F. Bente, of St. Louis;
“evening, English, Prof. Geo. A. Romoser, of Bronxville; German,
‘Pastor H. Haake, of Chicago. Glorious anthems to the praise of
God were rendered by mass choirs of adults and children under the
irection of Parochial Teachers Baumgart, Grossmann, and Jaeger,
f Milwaukee. The thank-offering was devoted to Synod’s Jubilee
hurch Extension Fund.