# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1944_S949
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

364 MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS

[1006]
Invitation to Hold Centennial Convention 1847—1947
in Chicago .

Wuereas, Our beloved Synod will, if it pleases God, celebrate
its one hundredth anniversary in 1947; and

Wuereas, Synod’s organization was effected one hundred years
ago in the city of Chicago, in the midst of St. Paul’s Lutheran
Church (Wunder’s church); therefore be it

Resolved, That the Northern Illinois District extend an invita-
tion to Synod at its convention in 1944, urging it to hold its 1947
convention in Chicago, Ill.; and be it also

Resolved, That we assure Synod of our determination to make
the actual centennial celebration as memorable as possible; and
be it finally

Resolved, That we humbly petition our God to terminate by |
His great might the bloody war now in progress to the end that
His Church may observe that happy forthcoming event in a year
of peace and under the banner of freedom, to the honor and glory
of His great name.

Action: The Northern Illinois District extends a hearty in-
vitation to Synod to hold the 1947 convention in Chicago.

{1007}
Support of the American Bible Society

Wuereas, The present émergency needs of the American Bible”
Society and the increased responsibility for postwar reconstruction “
in its specialized field will call for a substantial increase in its
budget; and

Wuereas, The Society must look to the churches for funds to
meet its unparalleled present and future opportunities; -be it

Resolved, That each church of our Synod be urged to give
generously to the American Bible Society both for its increasing
regular budget and its War Emergency Budget;

That the needs of the Society be commended to the generous
consideration of those administering special funds for the war_
emergency program; a

That each individual church be urged to set aside one Sunday’
in the year on which the place of the Bible is duly emphasized and
the responsibility of the Church in Bible distribution is clearly laid
upon the conscienceg of the people.

St. Marx’s LuTHERAN CHURCH, Yonxers, N.Y.