# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1944_S931
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

346 MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS

we would like to.
receive from you a brief description of the over-all Picture (no :
limiting yourself to your District) as you see it,”

under the circumstances do the best they can.”
you men of the Committee probably know, a few bad spots; but
I am assured that headway is being made through proper instrue-*
tion and an evangelical Practice.” In view of these statements ‘it 34
will not do to. be apologetic regarding the attitude of our Syno
towards the lodge when this subject is discussed at intersynodical
meetings. If discipline were united to testimony in the Lutheran :
Church generally regarding the evil of the lodge, a serious obstacle ::
to a better understanding among Lutherans would be removed...
The Bureau of Information was given authority jointly ‘with *:
the Board for Young People’s Work to devote further study to the.
ject in view of removing “dis-
Similar practice in our midst Concerning Boy Scout troops under
a Lutheran Scoutmaster,” Under these instructions your synods
ical committees obtained all the official handbooks both for scouts
and Scoutmasters, covering every phase of the work, and examined:

“There were, ag:

In a letter to the Committee, Chief Scout Executive Elbert K, Fret-.
well writes from Scout headquarters:

“We recognize that there is no Boy Scout authority ‘which |
supersedes the authority of the local Pastor and
in any phase of the program affecting the spiritual welfare of
Lutheran men and boys in Scouting, and the purpose of this -