# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1944_S860
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PUBLICATION MATTERS 277

text of the Liturgy and Agenda was critically read, and revisions
were made where English style, clarity, etc., demanded them.

We have prepared for the help of our pastors detailed general
rubrics covering all the services, the liturgical colors, their sig-
nificance and use, the altar linens, the sacramental linens, etc.

We have added one wedding service for a church wedding,
looking to the participation of the assembled congregation. This
is not a new order, but one based on an excellent order in one of
the old orthodox Lutheran agendas. In fact, in all changes or addi-
tions we have prepared new material only when nothing suitable
was available. We have also added an order for the consecration
of a civil marriage.

We have re-arranged the orders for funeral services so as to
make them more practical for pastoral use in funeral parlors, or
“mortuaries.” A new order was added in a formula for a reading
- service at the private burial of the unbaptized or stillborn.

- In the service for church dedication we added the necessary
prayers for the consecration of altar, organ, bells, etc.

In the orders for adult Baptism and confirmation the necessary
changes were made to keep clear the proper distinction between
Baptism and confirmation. ;

The order for the installation of synodical officials, in use since
1938, has been included; likewise the order for the installation of
professors, long in use at Concordia Seminary, St. Louis (now also
adapted for use at the installation of our college professors). We
have added an order for the ordination and commissioning of
foreign and home missionaries. .

In the order for the reception of voting members we changed
the heading of this section and omitted No.2 (by profession),
because the present form is for reception into communicant mem-
bership, which is properly taken care of in the orders for con-
firmation or for the reception of converts.

We have added new prayers, in their places, for the following:
During a vacancy in a church (pastor and teacher); when a call
has been issued (pastor and teacher); when a call has been ac-
cepted (pastor and teacher); at a teachers’ conference; at the
death of a pastor; at the death of a teacher; for the blind; at the
jubilee of a pastor; for the deaf; at the burial of suicides; for the
recovery of a sick child; for Christian education; for a time of
unemployment; thanksgiving for rain after drought; for peace;
a bidding prayer in time of war; for absent ones.

The heading for the present series of prayers for evening serv-
ices and other occasions has been changed to “Prayers for Temporal
and Spiritual Gifts and Graces,” and the’ prayers ‘have been re-