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LUTHERANS. 



LYTTELTON, GEORGE W. 



of the immigrants, and guard them against 

 swindlers reported that its work during the 

 year had been one-third greater than that of 

 the previous year. 



The fifth convention of the Synodical Con- 

 ference met at St. Paul, Minn., July 19th. The 

 Rev. H. A. Preuss was elected president. Tne 

 discussion of the theses on church-fellowship, 

 which has been kept up from year to year, 

 was continued. The tenth thesis was adopted 

 as follows : " Such contradiction (between the 

 confession and practice) exists also, when a 

 Lutheran synod, or any association of synods, 

 tolerates the serving by any of its pastors, 

 though they call themselves Lutherans, of con- 

 gregations which are in fact Union congre- 

 gations." The consideration of the eleventh 

 thesis was postponed till the next meeting. 

 As proposed for adoption this thesis declares 

 that " it is furthermore in conflict with the 

 confession, when an ecclesiastical body is con- 

 tent that its pastors should not have a regular 

 but only a temporary call from their congre- 

 gations, or when it even promotes this disorder 

 by the system of granting licenses." 



A resolution was unanimously passed, rec- 

 ommending "the formation of synods within 

 State boundaries, composed of all the members 

 of conferences speaking the same language in 

 each State." The carrying out of this reso- 

 lution would require a change to be made, in 

 order to meet its terms, in the control of the 

 institutions of the various synods. For this 

 purpose the following action was also taken : 



1. The Synodical Conference advises that the pres- 

 ent synods should dissolve the institutions for the 

 education of ministers now existing in their midst, 

 to erect a General Seminary, and to place the same 

 under the control of the Synodical Conference. 



2. The Synodical Conference advises to place the 

 School-Teachers' Seminary, already existing, under 

 the same control. 



3. Until the dissolution of the large synodical 

 bodies has laken place, the different synods of States 

 are to have their own choice, whether they wish to 

 he admitted into any one, and if so, into which one 

 of the existing large bodies they wish to be admit- 

 ted. 



4. The matter of collegiate education is to be left 

 in the hands of the several State Synods. 



5. The Conference advises that with the general 

 German Seminary a similar one be combined for 

 those speaking the English language. 



6. The Norwegian Lutheran Synod is to be invited 

 to combine its seminary with those mentioned, or to 

 make such use of these as it may deem proper. 



The Conference resolved to observe the 

 29th day of May, 1877, as the tercentennial 

 anniversary of the adoption of the Formula 

 Ooncordia, the last of the Lutheran symbolical 

 books. It recommended that the event be 

 appropriately celebrated by all the congrega- 

 tions connected with the Conference. Prof. 

 C. F. W. Walther was requested to publish the 

 first part of the Formula, with an historical 

 introduction and explanatory notes, for gen- 

 eral distribution. 



The Board of Home Missions of the General 

 Synod reported that their receipts for the year 



ending June 1, 1876, had been $10,479.25, and 

 their total disbursements had been $12,932.48. 

 Forty-three missions had been under their 

 care during the year. Of these, two missions 

 had been abandoned by the missionaries with- 

 out the knowledge of the board, one had been 

 discontinued, and three had become self-sus- 

 taining, leaving thirty-seven missions still un- 

 der care. These missions contained fifty con- 

 gregations, 2,938 members, 44 Sunday-schools, 

 4,702 scholars in the same, 47 houses of wor- 

 ship, and seven parsonages. They had paid 

 and contributed for their own expenses and 

 the enterprise* of the Church $45,405.77. The 

 board was in debt $2,453.23. 



The Treasurer of the Board of Church Ex- 

 tension of the General Synod reported that his 

 receipts for the year ending June 1, 1876, had 

 been $9,308.88, and his expenditure $9,380.94. 



A convention in behalf of the Foreign Mis- 

 sions of the General Synod met in Harrisburg, 

 Pa., August 30th. Ten district synods were 

 represented. The immediate object of the 

 convention was to consider the condition and 

 needs of the African mission, for which ex- 

 traordinary expenses and a debt of $10,000 had 

 been incurred. The Rev. W. De Baum, D. D., 

 presided. The convention was addressed by 

 the Rev. A. C. Wedekind, Secretary of the 

 Board of Foreign Missions, the Rev. J. A. Clutz, 

 of Baltimore, Md., the Rev. Messrs. Day and 

 Collins, missionaries to Africa, and the Rev. 

 J. Ritter, a former missionary to Africa. The 

 convention approved of the expenditures for 

 the African mission as wise and necessary, de- 

 clared that the Church ought cheerfully to 

 undertake to raise the money called for, and 

 recommended that practical measures be taken 

 to obtain it. 



The following is a summary of the work of 

 the mission of the General Synod in India : 

 Number of ordained American missionaries, 

 four; of native pastors, three; of evangelists, 

 two; of catechists, two; of teachers of subdivi- 

 sions, 27; of Bible and tract colporteurs, four; 

 of school-teachers (vernacular), 16 ; of pupils, 

 195 ; of members, including children, December 

 31, 1875, 2,835 ; of communicants, 1,254; of per- 

 sons baptized in 1875, 375 ; of persons baptized 

 since the beginning of the mission, 3,669; of 

 school or prayer houses, 33 ; of villages in 

 which Christians reside, 105. The mission 

 sustained also one Anglo - vernacular high- 

 school, with six teachers and 127 pupils. 



LYTTELTON, GEOEGE WILLIAM, baron, born 

 March 31, 1817; died April 20, 1876. He was 

 educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where 

 he graduated with high honors. He filled the 

 position of Secretary of State for the Colo- 

 nies for a brief period in 1846. From 1861 to 

 1863 he acted as a member af the royal com- 

 mission appointed to inquire into the manage- 

 ment of the public schools. At the time of 

 his death he was Lord-Lieutenant of Worces- 

 tershire and Chief Commissioner of Endowed 

 Schools. He was also a knight-commander of 



