# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1947_S442
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442 CONSTITUTIONAL MATTERS

the office of President of Synod and of President in the various
Districts shall be six years,

2. Synod shall hold its regular general conventions every

two years. Gzo. ScHwerert
Okabena, Minn,

system of triennial conventions. (Reasons: Interference with
District setup. Increased expenses.)
ACTION
This report was adopted by Synod.

Changing Name of Synod
(Memorial 508)

name “The Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod” is the correct
name for our church body. Missouri Synod stands for something
in the church world, It has a meaning all its own. Not merely

real significance of the name “Missouri Synod” lies in its confes-
sional import, Wherever the name “Missouri Synod” is men-
tioned, it stands for conservative Lutheran confessionalism., It dis-

Synod,” we give up in the eyes of Lutheranism, and possibly of the
church at large, something that should be of utmost value to us,

“The Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod” retains in the name
everything that was dear to our fathers and that, thank God, is
still dear to us, their descendants.

Furthermore, to make the Suggestion that the name “The
Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod” smacks of Provincialism is
the height of imagination. Business life is overrun with just such