# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1944_S875
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

290 PUBLICATION MATTERS
[714]

Spread of Christian Literature

Wuereas, The success of the postwar mission program of our
Church, which, please God, shall be global in scope, will depend
largely on a sense of Christian stewardship developed in the hearts
of our members through the application of God’s Word; and ‘

Wuereas, This sense is cultivated largely through Christian
literature and especially among the children and youth of our. :
Church through teaching materials with a realistic approach aimed
specifically at functional Christianity (making God’s Word carry |
over into the life of the individual taught), of which literature
there is a lack; and

Wuereas, A hundred thousand dollars of profits of Synod’s:
Publishing House, if invested in such materials and the research
which must precede the production of them, will eventually, with
God’s blessing, bring stewardship offerings, not of a hundred thouc
sand, but a million dollars; therefore be it

Resolved, That we petition Synod, assembled in Saginaw;
Mich., to authorize such investments in the ministry of Christian
literature, especially in the research and production of up-to-date,
practical. Christian educational materials. We feel that such re-
search should be conducted constantly or at regular intervals, say,
every fifth year, so that eventually our Church will have the finest,
most usable, and practical religious instructional materials of any

church body. West Missourt-PastoraL CONFERENCE

O. G. Tiemann, Secretary

[715]
Petition for the Publication of the Semiquarterly
Devotional Booklet in Braille for the Blind
and the Deaf-Blind

Wuereas, The semiquarterly devotional booklet published
Concordia Publishing House has proved so popular among our
people that it is now printed in 400,000 copies; and

Wuereas, Many of our blind and deaf-blind readers have ex
pressed their longing and desire for such a Lutheran devotional :
booklet, in strong preference over the devotional material “pub-:
lished by non-Lutheran church bodies, ‘which often are permeated
throughout with disgusting and soul-destroying Modernism and: :
other false doctrines; and

Wuereas, This expressed desire comes not only from our o'
blind, but also from a number of deaf-blind, who often have