# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1944_S843
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

258 INTERSYNODICAL AND DOCTRINAL MATTERS

Separation.

A great number of pastors as well as laymen is, on account of.
a lack of proper information, completely in the dark as to the ques-‘-
tion which of these two contradictory opinions is right and which’
is wrong.
The aim of the present overture is to have this disagreement’
. in our midst thoroughly examined and settled before any further |:

Iowa Synods,

The fact that the A.L.C. Declaration is doctrinally in perfect
agreement with the Chicago Theses is not denied by anybody either
in the A.L.C., or in the Missouri Synod.

The task of carefully studying and examining the material
ch has to be investigated cannot very well be accomplished

The undersigned is ready to submit the necessary material to

such a committee. J. Buencer, Pastor em,

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Letter to the American Lutheran Church
Dear BreTHREN IN Curarst:

WHeEREas, Consciences are involved in the rejection or ac-
ceptance of any doctrinal statement;

- .Wuereas, The right interpretation. of the Declaration of the.

American Lutheran Church can only be given by the American’