# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1947_S55
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 55

the wide world, consider the development of the Mission Depart-
ment of our Graduate School of Concordia Seminary at St. Louis,
Missouri, a memorial of this Centennial of our Church and there-
fore resolve oo ,
1. To appropriate up to $150,000 for adequate housing facilities
for missionaries and their families and for prospective
woman workers;
2. To set aside $5,000 for the establishment of a mission library
and an annual subsidy for its maintenance and enlargement;
3. To grant the Board of Control power to engage additional
help for the Mission Department as this help is needed.
Boarp oF ForEIGN MISSIONS
Boarp For SouTH AMERICAN MISSIONS
Boarp ror Home Missions
Pienary Missionary Boar oF THE SYNODICAL CONFERENCE
F. C. Streurert, Secretary of Missions
H. A. Maver, Assistant Secretary of Mission

EXTENDING DR. W. A. MAIER’S “LEAVE OF ABSENCE” STATUS
(Memorial 119)
Wuereas, Bringing Christ to the Nations, the International
Lutheran Hour, has enjoyed an_ overflowing measure of our

heavenly Father’s rich benediction and has been permitted to
extend its activity throughout the United States and beyond our
borders; and ~

Wuereas, God’s particular blessings have rested upon the
labors of Dr. Walter A. Maier in the preaching of the Gospel over
the radio; and

Wuereas, The Board of Control of Concordia Theological
Seminary and the Board of Directors of the Missouri Synod have
granted Dr. Maier a leave of absence from his duties at the Semi-
nary during the scholastic years 1944—1945, 1945—1946, and 1946
to 1947 to devote his full time to the multiplied details associated
with the work of Bringing Christ to the Nations; and

Wuereas, The effective continuance of the broadcast demands
the continued full-time co-operation of Dr. Maier; and

Wuereas, We believe Dr. Maier’s continued association with
the Seminary to be beneficial to the Church as a whole, to the
Seminary, to Bringing Christ to the Nations, and to Dr. Maier
personally; therefore be it

Resolved, That the Lutheran Laymen’s League, through its
Board of Governors, Executive Committee, and Operating Com-
mittee, petition the Delegate Synod in convention assembled at
Chicago, Ill., as follows: