especially on the doctrines of conversion and election, has as yet not been settled. For the last forty years representative theologians of the Ohio Synod have maintained: The reason why some are converted and finally saved, while the rest are lost, is, because their conduct toward God’s grace is not as bad, and hence their guilt is not as great, as that of those who are lost. Rejecting this teaching as synergism, Missouri maintains: The reason why some are elected, converted, and finally saved is