# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1944_S811
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

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PROPOSED SYNODICAL HANDBOOK

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733. Persons Entitled to Support
The following persons shall be entitled to support:

A. Professors, pastors, and teachers who on account
of old age or illness have been compelled to resign
their office and whose pension annuities are not suffi-
cient for their reasonable needs,

B. The widows of professors, pastors, and teachers,
and their children up to 17 years of age, provided they
are in need of support.

C. Servants of the Church who were called and
employed by eleemosynary, educational, missionary
organizations, and boards within Synod and are ad-
visory members of a synodical District, and mission-
aries, pastors, professors, and teachers serving Synod.
in home and foreign countries and their dependents
or survivors. .

D. Women teachers, incapacitated after years of
faithful service and with no other means of support.
These may be considered in the same class with pas-
tors’ and teachers’ widows.

E, Women workers in foreign fields who are inca-
pacitated, unless they be otherwise provided for.

735. Persons, Not Entitled to Support

The following persons shall not be entitled to
support:

A. Professors, pastors, and teachers

1. Who through illness have been compelled to
resign, but are able to support themselves in some
other manner. :

2. Who have sufficient means, so that they need not
be supported by Synod.

3. Who for sufficient reasons have been compelled
to resign or who without good reasons, of their own
accord, have resigned. Such cases shall be decided by
the Board after having consulted with the respective

. synodical officers.

B. Widows who have remarried or who have ob-
tained employment enabling them — in the opinion of
the Board — to support themselves.

737. Official Lists

The lists of pastors, teachers, and professors ap-
pearing in the latest proceedings of the various Dis-
tricts shall be the official lists for the purposes of the
Board of Support and Pensions.

739. Investigation of Application

Each application for support shall be investigated
by the subcommittee of the District in which the
applicant was living at the time when support was
applied for. The Board may, however, ask the sub-
committee of the District to which the applicant has
removed to supervise the case.