# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1947_S3
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

FOREWORD vil

Germany; letter from the Rev. W. H. Schweppe, in the name of
the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Nigeria; telegram from Mil-
ton Eggerding, President of the Northern Illinois District of the
Walther League; letter from Mrs. Raymond Roehrkasse, secretary
of the Lutheran Women’s Missionary League; letters from Dr. H.
Meiser, of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria and the
Evangelical Lutheran Church of Germany; telegram from Dr, Eugen
Gerstenmaier, head of the Hilfswerk in Germany; letter from Dr.
Martin Niemoeller of the Evangelical Church in Germany; letter
from Chaplain Max Beck, Oceanside, California; letter from Dr.
Theo. Nickel, North Albury, South Australia; letter from Rev. F.
Hassold, Vice-President of the South Australia District of the Evan-
gelical Lutheran Church of Australia; letter from Dr. P. O. Bersell,
President of the Evangelical Lutheran Augustana Synod of North
America; letter from Pastor W. Bente of Immanuel Church, Stutt-
gart, Germany; telegram from Rev. J. A. Aasgaard, President of
the Norwegian Synod, Minneapolis, Minn.; letter from Dr. L. M.
Stavig, President of the American Lutheran Conference; letter
from Pastor W. J. Michael, of the Evangelical Lutheran Free Church
in Denmark; letter from Irene Bergen, secretary of the Ontario
District of the Walther League; letter from the Rev. T. Lutze,
secretary of the Pastoral Conference of the Evangelical Lutheran
Church of Australia; letter from Carl G. Loeber, Van Nuys, Cali-
fornia; letter from Rev. W. G. Polack, Jr., of Baltimore, Mary-
land; greetings from Dr. Henry W. Horst, Rock Island, Illinois,
and Dr. Edmund Seuel of St. Louis; and a letter from Dr. Theoph.
Wurm, Bishop of the Church of Wuerttemberg.

The President and the four Vice-Presidents were solemnly
inducted into office by Dr. H. Grueber on the last day of the
convention.

Professor Paul F. Bente again served as Assistant Secretary,
keeping accurate account of the business of the convention in his
daily minutes. M. F. Kretzmann, Secretary