# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1947_S508
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508 INTERSYNODICAL AND DOCTRINAL, MATTERS

the aforesaid Resolutions of 1938 are null and void, and that we
intend to take any action necessary to maintain this position,

with the help of God. Immanuet Ev. Lutueran Cuurcn

Michigan City, Ind.
Harry A. Hrener, Secretary
Paut L. Kretzmann, Pastor

St. Jonw’s Ev. Lurueran Cuurcn
Wanatah, Ind.
DALE W. JENKINS, Secretary
A.V. Kuster, Pastor

First Ev. Luraeran Cuurcu
Hanna, Ind.
Lzo Ercxstaenr, Secretary
A.V. Kuster, Pastor

Reject 1938 Resolutions
(Memorial 610)

Whereas, The Lutheran Witness, May 21, 1946, p. 171, de-
clared: “This paper stands by the synodical resolutions . . . adopted
... by our St. Louis convention of 1938. ... They are the official
Position of the Missouri Synod until either rescinded or voided
through adoption of some substitute platform of union”; and

Wuergas, The Lutheran Witness, Nov. 5, 1946, p. 378, reported
that the members of the Fellowship Committee of the American
Lutheran Church had stated that the Brief Statement of the
Missouri Synod and the Declaration of the American Lutheran
Church express “differences in doctrine which do exist in the
opinion of the Fellowship Committee”; that the Declaration has
certain “safeguards” for the preservation of the American Lutheran
Church’s own peculiar doctrine; that the Declaration “stood for
a certain attitude giving freedom under God and under the Scrip-
ture,” in doctrinal as well as in matters of confessional practice;
now therefore be it

Resolved, That we, the members of St. Peter’s Ev. Lutheran
Congregation of Morrison, Ill, do hereby petition the Honorable
Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States, in convention assembled
at Chicago, Ill, July 20—29, 1947, to rescind and void the reso-
lutions of 1938 for the reason that the Declaration gives freedom to
a denial of certain truths of Scripture and safeguards the anti-
Scriptural doctrine of the American Lutheran Church; and be
it furthermore

Resolved, That we, the members of St. Peter’s Ev. Lutheran