# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1947_S506
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506 INTERSYNODICAL AND DOCTRINAL MATTERS

not merely as a basis for future church fellowship, but as a basis
for fraternizing and fellowshiping even beyond the boundaries of
the American Lutheran Church;

8. Subsequent events since 1938 have clearly shown that the
assurances given the 1938 convention by the respective commit-
tees —- upon which assurances the 1938 Resolutions were adopted —
were too optimistic;

9. The official committee of the American Lutheran Church on
Fellowship is on record as declaring that the Missouri Synod and
the American Lutheran Church are not in doctrinal agreement;

10. If there is an insistence on returning to the 1938 Resolutions
or keeping them as a basis for future fellowship with the American
Lutheran Church, we fear there will be an open rupture in our
Synod;

11. By subsequent events the 1938 Resolutions have been de
facto nullified.

For these and other reasons we petition Synod to declare the
1938 Union Resolutions null and void.

SouTH-CrentraL Pastoral CONFERENCE
OF THE Minnesota District
K. L. Rosenwrnxe, Secretary
Truman, Minn,

To Rescind the St. Louis Resolutions of 1938
(Memorial 609)

Wuereas, The claim has been advanced that the St. Louis
Union Resolutions of 1938 are still valid and tenable; and

Wuereas, The condition, that the four (or five) points at
issue between the Missouri Synod and the American Lutheran
Church committees in 1938 (Proceedings, 1938, pp. 231—232, points
3 and 4) be clearly settled, has not been met; and

Whereas, To these doctrinal differences others must be added
as existing up to and at the present time between the Missouri
Synod and the American Lutheran Church, e.g., the errors being
taught unhindered within the American Lutheran Church in con-
nection with the doctrines of the plenary and verbal inspiration of
the Scriptures, conversion and election, and unionism; and

Wuereas, The American Lutheran Church Fellowship Com-
mittee has made it as plain as it can be made that the A.L.C.
Declaration and the Brief Statement “present two trends of
thought; that they express differences in doctrine which do
exist” (Lutheran Witness, 1946, p. 378); and