# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1944_S862
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

. PUBLICATION MATTERS 279

and Agenda in separate volumes, Concordia Publishing House be
asked to bind them in one volume.

We recommend that a pocket-size edition of The Agenda (Vol-
ume II, above) be prepared for the pastors, preferably by photo-
static reduction so as to keep the pagination uniform.

Your Committee was ready to publish in pamphlet form a re-
port to our churches on the new material added to the Liturgy and
Agenda and on the more important changes made, but the growing
paper shortage and the high cost of printing and mailing to all
pastors and teachers in the Synodical Conference caused us to wait.
We did not feel justified in incurring an expense of several thousand
dollars without specific instructions from the synods involved.

It seems to us that one of two things ought to be done. If
the synods of the Synodical Conference are ready to bear the
expense, our Committee should be instructed to issue a detailed
report in pamphlet form, if the paper is available. A time should
be set during which all criticisms and suggestions are to be sent in.
Then our Committee ought to be authorized to publish its work
as soon thereafter as possible.

Or if the synods feel that their interests are sufficiently safe-
guarded thereby, the reviewing or censorial committees which criti-
cally reviewed The Lutheran Hymnal may be asked to review
critically also the proposed Liturgy and Agenda. The synods
should then authorize publication as soon as our Committee has
come to an agreement with the reviewers. For The Lutheran
Hymnal each synod was represented by two competent men, and

the excellent work done by these committees at that time can.

hardly be overestimated.

Members of the Intersynodical Committee on Hymnology and
Liturgics: For the Wisconsin Synod, the Revs. A. Voss and W. J.
Schaefer; for the Slovak Lutheran Church, the Rev. J ohn Bajus;
for the Norwegian Synod, the Revs. N. Madson and C. Anderson;
for the Missouri Synod, the Revs. O. Kaiser and O. H. Schmidt,
Superintendent B. Schumacher, and Profs. L. Blankenbuehler and

W. G. Polack. Tue Committee on Hymnoxocy aNnp Lrrurcics

W. G. Potackx, Chairman

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Hymnal for Children

Wuereas, Love and appreciation of genuinely good church
music can be fostered in very early youth; and .

Wuereas, Children should not be discouraged in their desir
to sing by words which are beyond their grasp, by music which is
beyond their pitch, by rhythm which is too complex; and

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