# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1935_S5
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By the grace of God and pursuant to the kind: invitation of our
congregations in Greater Cleveland the Evangelical Lutheran Synod
of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States was privileged to meet for ‘its
Thirty-sixth Regular Convention at Cleveland, Ohio, being assembled
as the Twenty-first Delegate Synod, from June 19 to 28, 1935.°

Besides the preconyention meetings of the Board of Assignment,
the College of Presidents, Committee No. 1, the Educational Con-
ference, the Mission Conference, and the Support Conference, which
were held at St. Paul’s Church, sixteen general sessions were held
at the Convention Hall of the Cleveland Public Auditorium. The
impressive opening service was held at the Cleveland Convention
Hall on Wednesday morning, June 19, Vice-President H. Grueber
preaching the German sermon on 1 Kings 8, 57. 58, while Vice-Presi-
dent F. J. Lankenau, D. D., had taken Matt. 11,2 as his text for the
English sermon. Other official services were: the Educational Service
on Friday, June 21, at St. Paul’s Church, in which District President
C. T. Spitz preached an English sermon, and the German Pastoral
Service with Holy Communion at Trinity Church, the Rev. O. Kaiser
of Milwaukee delivering the confessional address and Rev. A. J. C.
Moeller of Grand Island, Nebraska, the pastoral sermon. On Sunday,
June 23, visiting pastors preached mission-sermons in the various
churches of Cleveland; and in the afternoon the General Mission
Service was held in the Public Auditorium, in which Dr. Wm. Dall-
mann, Dr. H. Koch of Berlin, Rev. M. Berndt of Argentina, Rev.
Marmaduke Carter, and Missionaries H. Manns from India and
E. C. Zimmermann of China gave brief missionary addresses.

The business sessions were opened on Wednesday afternoon with
a brief devotional service, conducted by Pastor C. W. Spiegel of
St. Paul’s Church, whereupon President Pfotenhauer, D.D., called
the convention to order after the Secretary had announced that a large
majority of the voting delegates had registered. (At the close of the
convention it could be established that the 294 circuits had sent
288 pastors and 271 laymen as voting delegates. Beside this 264 ad-
visory members were present. Cf. the Tabular Survey, p. 25.)

The Secretary was assisted by Prof. Paul Bente, who wrote’ the
daily English minutes, and Prof. H. Studtmann, who recorded the
proceedings in German. Thirty committees served in bringing reso-
lutions before the convention. Pastors K. Trautmann of Toledo, Ohio,
and F. Niedner of St. Charles, Missouri, were chosen as chaplains.
Two highly instructive doctrinal papers were presented, one in Ger-
man on the topie “Ich glaube eine heilige christliche Kirche, die Ge-
meinde der Heiligen,” by Prof. Th. Engelder, D. D., the other by Prof.
Wm. Arndt, Ph. D., D. D., on “The Lutheran Church, the True Visible
Church Here on Earth.” . ; Pek bs De a ga