# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1947_S540
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

540 INTERSYNODICAL AND DOCTRINAL MATTERS

a way that Scouting shall not be placed in the position of com
peting with any other agency for the boys’ loyalty, but, on th
contrary, Scouting should supplement the Church school and other
organizations in aiding the Church in her efforts to help the bo
lead a true, Christian life,” cannot remain unchallenged since i
declares the program provided by the educational agencies o
our Church as inadequate and deficient;

Therefore the undersigned petition Synod to appoint a com-
mittee which shall restudy the report of our Bureau of Information
and the Board for Young People’s Work, made to our Synod in
1944, and to report their findings to our next convention.

H.J.Eccotp, Sr. Fr. F. Serre C. A. Harpr

ACTION ‘
Regarding this memorial and Unprinted Memorial 6 by the 4
Standing Committee on Church Union, Wisconsin Synod, Com- “4
mittee 7 brought in its report, which was adopted in the follow- a
ing amended form: “s
_ Wuereas, It became apparent from discussion on the floor of q
Synod that a number of brethren are disturbed’ as to the Boy -&
Scout question; and 4
Wuergas, The Synodical Conference has requested its con-
Stituent synods to restudy their respective position with regard to e
the Boy Scouts; therefore be it F
Resolved, That the President of Synod appoint three men who,
in conjunction with the Bureau of Information and the Board for

Young People’s Work, shall restudy the matter and report to the
next convention.

Report of the Committee on Finnish Relations '
(Memorial 618)

The greetings which our Saginaw Convention sent to the
Finnish National Church, assembled in June, 1944, at Covington,
Mich., were personally conveyed in both languages by your repre-
sentative, Pastor R. Herrmann. The Finnish secretary was in-
structed to return the greetings, to thank our Synod for the subsidy
granted their mission work in past years and to state that no
subsidy would be needed in the future. The Saginaw Convention
had adjourned before his letter reached our Secretary.

Our fraternal relations with that church body, which has now
dropped the designation “Finnish” from its name, since it has become
bilingual, have continued to be very cordial, After the 1944 :
convention, Pastor R. Herrmann attended also those at Ironwood,
Mich., in 1945 and at Port Arthur, Ont., Can., in 1946. In addition,