# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1938_S3
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

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The Thirty-seventh Regular Convention of the Evangelical

Lutheran Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States met as the

* Twenty-second Delegate Synod at St.Louis, Mo., from June 15

to 24, 1938, the congregations of Greater St. Louis having extended

a kind invitation to hold this meeting in the city where the Saxon

‘immigrants landed nearly one hundred years ago, which many of
them made their home, while the majority went to Perry County,
Mo. The convention therefore throughout bore the character
of a Jubilee Synod.

Preliminary meetings of Committee 1 and Committee 2 were
held at Concordia Seminary, besides an Educational Conference,
a Support Conference, and a conference on Young People’s Work.
The main sessions, beginning on June 15 and ending on June 24,
5:30 P. M., were held in the St. Louis Municipal Auditorium, where
also the opening service and the Young People’s Service were held,
the latter on Tuesday evening, June 21. The Mission Services
were conducted simultaneously in Holy Cross Church and in Zion
Church on Friday evening, June 17, the Pastoral Service on June 23
at Trinity Church, and the Jubilee Service in the large conven-
tion hall of the Municipal Auditorium on Sunday afternoon,
June 19, commemorating the Saxon immigration. The speakers
on these occasions were: In the opening service, Vice-Presidents
F.J. Lankenau (German) and K. Kretzschmar (English); in the
Mission Services, President Lams (Holy Cross) and President
Harms (Zion); in the Youth Service, President A. Brunn; in the
Pastoral Service, President J.Schinnerer (confessional address,
Pastor O. Kaiser); in the Jubilee Service, President J. W. Behnken.
In the closing service, held Friday afternoon, June 24, the Presi-
dent and the four Vice-Presidents were inducted into office.
Prof. H.B. Hemmeter, D.D., was the speaker, and President J.
Schinnerer served as liturgist.

All business sessions were begun with a brief devotional ser-
vice. Opening the first session, President Behnken delivered the
key-note address on Matt. 28:18-20, and Vice-President H. Grueber
served as liturgist. The other addresses in the opening exercises
were delivered by District Presidents or their representatives:
M. Holls, W. Lichtsinn, J.C. Meyer, A.Brohm, O.A.Sauer, J.P.
Klausler, C. M. Beyer, J.C. Schuelke, F. Malinsky, G. Smukal, Mar-
tin Walker, H. Mueller, J. Mayer, C. Janzow, and C. F. Lehenbauer,
and other District Presidents or their representatives acted as
liturgists.

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