# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1947_S447
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

CONSTITUTIONAL MATTERS 447

| 3. This name is well known throughout the world.

séntiment toward this name during the past three years.

. 5; Any other name given to our church body would still be
explained as the Missouri Synod.

6. The name is very flexible and streamlined.

7. It is ideal for advertising purposes.

ACTION

Synod by a necessary two-thirds majority resolved to adopt
this name.

Since this would mean a change of our Constitution, Article I,
this will have to be submitted as a constitutional amendment to
our congregations. If less than one third of the congregations
votes against the change, the amendment goes into effect, but
the names of dissenting congregations should be published.
(Cf. Art. XIV.) Unless one third of the congregations in voting
membership in Synod files a vote of dissent with the Secretary of
Synod within a period of six months following the date of final
official publication of the amendment, the amendment shall become
effective at such time.

Establishing a Department of Visual Education

, (Memorial 520)
The Church in Tomorrow
The thoughts of most: serious-minded and thinking persons
today are on the years that lie in tomorrow. Our age with all
its materialistic developments, scientific advances and, on the
other hand, moral decay and spiritual degeneracy must offer the
world of tomorrow truly religious progression which only the
Church of the pure Word is. competent to supply.
Our Church is fully aware of its opportunities in tomorrow.

in order to influence not only the adult, but also the children
and youth of the land.

Evidence of this fact was seen when in 1941 Synod inaugurated
the Department of Missionary and Audio-Visual Education. It was
the aim then, and is now, that through such a department various
phases of parish education should be advanced.

The Growth

This program of audio-visual education has been in existence
for six years. In that span of time it has developed into an
agency of the Church with outlets within every State of the Union

, 4, Your Committee feels that there is considerable change of

It is cognizant of the educational facilities that must be evidenced |