Whether our Synod gains friends or makes enemies, wins honor or invites disgrace, grows or declines in numbers, brings peace or incites enmity, all this must be unimportant to us-just so our Synod may keep the jewel of purity of doctrine and knowledge. However, should our Synod ever grow indifferent toward purity of doctrine, through ingratitude forget this prize, or betray or barter it away to the false church, then let our church body perish and the name Missourian decay in disgrace.
-C.F.W. Walther, First Sermon Delivered at the Opening of Synod, 1 Corinthians 1:4-5
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This and the passage on uniform liturgy are excellent. I wonder if those who want us to take a different path now know that they are in a long line of those saying that, not the latest new thing! Thank you for posting these. I was so impressed with them I reposted them on my blog, with comment and credit for where I found them.