Prof. W. F. Lehmann, vice-president; Rev. P. Beyer, secretary, and Mr. J. Schmidt, treasurer. According to the constitution on which the body was organized the Synodical Conference acknowledges the canonical books of the Old and the New Testaments as the Word of God and the confession of the Evangelical Luth. Church of 1580, known as the Book of Concord, as its own Confession. Synods are admitted to membership not by the accredited delegates, but, on their recommendation, by all the synods connected