# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1947_S443
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Acta ai RLR i Haein

CONSTITUTIONAL MATTERS 448

“provincial” terms, and no one even suggests that they are pro-

~ vineial. The Hartford Insurance Company, The Firemen’s In-
_ surance Company, The Baltimore and Ohio Railway, The New
“York Central Railroad, etc., certainly are not of a provincial char-
_acter, but cover a great deal of territory, some national, some

international. Yet these companies are not concerned about the
provincialism in their names. Why should we Missouri Lutherans
be if the name expresses just what we are?

Again, what greater tribute could we give to the founding
fathers if, changing our name in this Centennial year, we merely
shorten it, and yet allow it to remain practically as it was? No
matter from what angle one may look at the name “The Lutheran
Church — Missouri Synod,” it fits our church body as the glove
fits the hand. It expresses our confessional standpoint; it is not
provincial; it honors the sagacity and Scriptural loyalty of our
founding fathers; it tells the world that we have not changed; it
informs the church at large that we still stand four-square upon
every word of the Bible, in short, that we still are and want to
remain Missouri Lutherans.

We therefore make bold to come before the convention of our
Church with the petition to reconsider the memorials of 1944 con~
cerning the change of name of Synod to “The Lutheran Church —
Missouri Synod” and would add the following:

Wuereas, No other name fits our church body so well as the
name “The Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod”; and

Wuereas, This name continues to express our confessional
standpoint before the church at large and the world; and

Wuereas, By this name we, their children, pay tribute to our
founding fatk zrs in this Centennial year, acknowledging their
courage in the days of liberal Lutheranism and their loyalty to
God’s Word; and

Wuereas, We by retaining the designation “Missouri” in the
name of our Church promise to continue in their footsteps; there-
fore be it

Resolved, That the name “The Evangelical Lutheran Synod of
Missouri, Ohio, and Other States” be changed to read henceforth:
“The Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod.”

Respectfully submitted by Circuit Two of the North Wis-

consin District, H. Paut WestMEYER W. J. Puiscuxe

H. E. W1ans E. A. Wrans

K. R. Gorne E. Maura

G. A. KarprInsky Otto W. ScHREIBER
F, C. Benecke L. F. ScHNeEwER