# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1944_S979
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

396 MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS

b) The convention to encourage the Fiscal Conference to
allocate such moneys to the Wartime Missions and Con-
servation Fund as may become necessary and are in
proportion with the general make-up of the synodical
budget.

c) .That Synod encourage the Fiscal Conference to authorize

: the Board of Directors to inaugurate in the fall of this

j year a special Postwar Reconstruction and Rehabilitation

, Fund and that the expenditure of this fund be at the
direction of the Board of Directors. We suggest as a
goal $1,500,000.

Larger Horizons
Down through the centuries there have been wars under-
taken in the firm conviction that they would “end war,” “abolish
- despotism and imperialism,” “make the world safe for democ-
racy,” “overcome injustice,” “eliminate misery,” and “bring about
a mote adequate distribution of the things which belong to all
mankind.” But we Christians know that all these efforts have
been futile and will continue to be futile until we can put the
Spirit of Christ into the hearts of men. Only this will make this
world a better place to live in. To do this, we must ask God for
a large measure of His Holy Spirit for our own lives. We must
begin to think not only as individuals but as a Church in terms
of larger horizons. We must recapture the Savior’s vision of
world conquest: “Go ye into all the world.”
Today we see the world as it was in the be-
To Teach ginning, a chaotic, shifting, seething mass over
Preach which there hovers a great darkness. It is through
_ us that Cod wants to move over the face of the
world with ‘His Holy Spirit to bring order out of spiritual chaos
and to re-create men and women in this world into a faint sem-
blance of what they were before sin entered. The hour is at hand.
For the
NATIONAL ADVISORY EMERGENCY ‘PLANNING COUNCIL
L. J. Suscx, Chairman
L. Meyer, Executive Director