# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1944_S930
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MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS 847

Lutheran Manual is to guide the local Pastor and Congregation
in their efforts to supplement the Scout Program with the spiritual
program of the Church.” - ‘

Accordingly, your Committee believes that the matter of scout-
ing should be left to the individual congregation to decide and
that under the circumstances Synod may consider her interests

sufficiently protected. Tue BUREAU oF INFORMATION

Pau. G. BRETSCHER O. F, ENGELBRECHT
THEODORE GRAEBNER -

are approved by the Board of Young People’s Work.

‘E. L. RoscxKe, Chairman
Martin RoscHKe, Secretary

[1002] ;
Report of Concordia Historical Institute

With sincere thanksgiving to the Lord of the Church, we are
able to report to your venerable body that the work of our. Insti-
tute has made further progress during the past triennium. |
Many members of Synod have sent us items of historical in-
terest, such as congregational histories, congregational constitu-
tions, documents, letters, conference minutes, journals, diaries, etc.
We are gradually getting our catalog up to date. We have been
able to assist students of church history by making our collection
available to them for their special field and by helping them to
obtain material from other sources.

_ Concordia Seminary has again assigned a room to us for the
keeping of our collection, a service for which we are grateful, as
the conditions of the times have made it impossible for us to carry
out our building program for a museum building of our own. We.
are hopeful that we shall be able to build soon after the war.
It will be of interest to your venerable body to know that in addi-
tion to the $35,000 which was turned over to us from the, Louis
H. Waltke estate for the building of a Waltke Memorial Museum,
Mrs. L. H. Waltke and the children of Mr. Waltke have contributed
$10,000 to our Institute, which sum we have added to our build-
ing fund.

We did not make use of the $2,000 per annum allowed by
your venerable body three years ago for the purpose of employing
a full-time curator until in November, 1943, at which time we
employed the Rev. Dr. Karl Kretzmann, formerly pastor at
Orange, N.J. Through our curator and with the co-operation of

The above report and recommendation in the Boy Scout matter .

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