# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1947_S429
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

CONSTITUTIONAL MATTERS 429

8.21
Change “seven” members to “nine” members — five pastors

and four laymen.

8.47a

Add to paragraph: always safeguarding the rights of the con-
gregation or congregations involved.

Change the heading to H. Armed Services Commission.

8.79b

This should read: It shall be authorized to call, recall, and
dismiss missionaries, and assign them to the districts and stations .
in which they shall work, always safe-guarding the rights of the
congregation or congregations involved.

8.151 .

To read: An Armed Services Commission, consisting of five
pastors and two laymen.... Also in 8.153 b, etc.
9.75

Referred to in 9.71 and 9.73.

10.01la
The paragraph as it appears in the Handbook should read:
The Board of Support and Pensions...

10.01b
Add: “The chairman, secretary, and three lay members, to be

appointed by the Board and residing within convenient distances,
shall constitute the executive committee of the Board. They shall
attend to such business as is assigned to them by the Board.

10.11
Insert “a” in line 2.
10.41 h
Strike “congregations,” write “employers.”

10.45 b

Retirement shall be construed as the giving up of a pastorate,
office, or position and the termination of a salary relationship by
a worker who has attained the age of sixty-five years, or who is
compelled to resign on account of total and presumably permanent
disability and whose salary relationship thereby is terminated.
Disability must be certified to by a competent physician and the
officials of the respective District as well as by the member himself
and must be approved by the Board, with the right to call for
proof of continued disability from time to time by a competent
physician chosen by the Board. If the disabled worker recovers
sufficiently to resume active work (church or secular), he must
inform the Board immediately, and the Board may reduce or
terminate his disability pension and require him and his congre-
gation to resume the contributions if he returns to church work.