# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1947_S472
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

472 CONSTITUTIONAL MATTERS

to pastors, teachers, and lay delegates eight weeks prior to the
convention, your Committee 6 recommends:

Wuereas, Synod’s Handbook has made definite proposals re-
garding the printing of proposed regulations, reports, and me-
morials, p. 32, B, Sec. 1.25: “All matters to come before the con-
vention shall, as a rule, be presented to the President in writing
ten weeks prior to the convention. He shall decide which of these
matters shall be published in Reports and Memorials, a copy of
which shall be mailed four weeks prior to the convention of
Synod to each pastor and teacher of Synod and to each elected
lay delegate”; and

Wuergas, This section of our proposed Handbook has just
been adopted; therefore be it

Resolved, That Synod decline Unprinted Memorial 62.

: ACTION
Synod adopted this resolution,

To Define the Word “Procrastinating”
in Lodge Regulations
(Memorial 528)

Wuereas, The Honorable Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other
States, in convention assembled in River Forest, Illinois, July
19—28, 1929, resolved in regard to the lodge:

“That we do not deny that a conscientious pastor may under
certain conditions (‘in cases which present unusual features, ren-
dering their classification difficult’; Memorial 407, lines 95—96) ad-
minister Holy Communion to a person who is stil] outwardly
connected with a lodge. But in such a case the Pastor shall
earnestly beware of procrastinating and giving offense, and to
this end he shall freely and conscientiously consult with his vestry
and congregation, his brethren in the ministry, and with the officials
of Synod, as the case may require.”

Wuereas, The term “procrastinating,” used in the afore-men-
tioned resolution, is indefinite and vague; and

Wuereas, For that reason, cases of lodge membership have
been pending for a number of years with the contention that no
“procrastinating” is involved; therefore

The undersigned petition. Synod to interpret the term “pro-
crastinating” as used in reference to lodge practice in the afore-
mentioned synodical resolution.

THe CLEVELAND Lurneran Pastora, ConFERENCE
LE. ALBRECHT, Secretary

OO ee