# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1947_S538
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588 INTERSYNODICAL AND DOCTRINAL MATTERS

objective of setting forth the doctrines of Holy Writ and their
practical application to modern life; and be it further

Resolved,

2. That Synod authorize publication of a manual which shall “t
serve as guide to pastors and congregations in dealing with these *
matters. ;

Committee 3 recommended:

Your Committee recommends adoption of the first resolution
in this memorial, namely, that a committee be appointed by the
President to study the matters of marriage, divorce, remarriage
and related subjects.

It further recommends that the second resolution be referred
for consideration to this appointed committee together with
Synod’s Literature Board.

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ACTION
Synod adopted these recommendations and resolved that after
these committees have finished their work, their recommendations
should be submitted to our pastoral conferences before their re- °
port is printed.

A Committee to Restudy Question re Boy Scouts
(Memorial 617)

Wuereas, Our Synod’s Bureau of Information and its Board
for Young People’s Work reported to Synod in 1944 that it was
“unable to find any factors which would violate our principles
and have not been able to discover anything in the practices of
Scouting, as outlined in these handbooks, to which a Christian
parent, scoutmaster, or pastor would take exception”; and

Wuereas, Our Synod’s Bureau of Information and its Board
for Young People’s Work state in their report to Synod: “A Lu-
theran Committee on Scouting (of the American Lutheran Church,
the Augustana Synod, the Lutheran Free Church, the Missouri
Synod [the Rev. Theo. Graebner, Rev. E. L. Roschke, Prof. O. H.
Theiss, and Mr. W. F. Weiherman], the Norwegian Lutheran
Church, the United Lutheran Church, and the American Federa-
tion of Lutheran Brotherhoods) has issued a manual entitled
Scouting in the Lutheran Church, which definitely claims for the
pastors and congregations the sole and unrestricted right of the
Lutheran Church Committee (of which the local pastor is under-
stood to be a member) to control everything of a religious nature
that is to be superimposed upon the official Scout program”; and

Wuereas Our Synod in 1944 in its Convention at Saginaw,
Mich., adopted this report of our Bureau of Information and our