# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1944_S858
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PUBLICATION MATTERS 275

We again encourage our pastors, teachers; and laymen to sup-
port the work of the Young People’s Literature Board by ordering
such recommended books as Concordia Publishing House offers
for sale.

We ask our pastors, teachers, and laymen carefully to watch
over the reading matter of their children and young people, since
today most books are so full of profanity, obscenity, and other
objectionable features that they are directly detrimental: to the
spiritual and moral welfare of our American youth. The juvenile
delinquency problem is, no doubt, to a large extent the result of
vicious books and periodicals which young people are reading.

The problem of good reading matter should receive con-
scientious attention at our pastoral and teachers’ conferences.
Pastors and teachers will do well also to discuss the problem with
the various societies of their congregations.

School and Sunday school libraries have become a necessity
in our modern educational setup, and congregations should there-
fore be encouraged to foster this important means of Christian
edification and instruction.

Since Concordia Publishing House has again most generously
paid all expenses in connection with the work of the Board, it
should receive the cordial thanks of Synod. We especially ap-
preciate and recommend the deep interest and helpful direction of
Mr..0. A. Dorn, through whose fine co-operation the work of the
Board has been greatly enlarged and blessed.

J. THEoporE MueE.uer, Chairman
RicnarpD C. DELVENTHAL, Secretary

[704]
Report of the Committee on Hymnology

and Liturgics

The triennial report of the Synodical Committee on Hymnology
.and Liturgics is again, as in the past, a report on the work which
your Committee has done during the triennium jointly with the
respective committees of our sister synods in the Synodical Con-
ference of North America, who will present this same report to
their own synods. We wish to state at the outset, and with sincere
thanksgiving to the Lord of the Church, that during the past fifteen
- years of our work together as the Intersynodical Committee on
Hymnology and Liturgics the most cordial spirit of brotherly co-
operation and mutual understanding has prevailed. The Lutheran
Hymnal has become the official hymnal of the synods in the Synod-
ical Conference. The fact that this volume has been distributed