Excerpt from Proceedings of the Forty-First Convention of the General Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the United States of America: In Session in Baltimore, MD., June 3 to 11, 1903 At the hour appointed for the meeting of Synod the first ses sion was opened in the prescribed form by the President, Rev. William S. Freas, D. D. The Secretary, Rev. William E. Fischer, D. D. Was at his table. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.