# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1947_S548
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548 PUBLICATION MATTERS

The Supper up Yonder. Tract No. 145 4
A New Commandment. Tract No. 146 4
Is It 1? Tract No. 147 se
The Sermon in the Sacrament. Tract No. 148 %
Compel Them to Come In. Tract No. 149. a
The Church at Worship — at School. Tract No. 150 a
Luther's Ninety-Five Theses. Tract No. 151

Periodicals Published by Synod 3
(Sixteen publications)
Sunday School Literature

Lutheraner 25,600 Beginners

Lutheran Witness 239,275 Primary Leaflets ___

Concordia Messenger 14,700 Junior Lessons _

Child’s Companion. - 75,000 Intermediate...

Young Lutherans’ Magazine 9,800 Senior SS

Lutheran Guide 6,300 Bible Student a
School Journal _._ Bible Teacher _......... 2,700 =
Theological Monthly ._..__. Teachers’ Quarterly _.._.. 36,500 |

375,250
Total subscriptions, 756,450

During the past years we have regularly paid real estate taxes
to the city of St.Louis and the State of Missouri, However, in- J
asmuch as Concordia Publishing House was organized under the Me
Religious and Benevolent Laws of the State of Missouri and exempt
from the payment of all Federal taxes, and since similar organiza-
tions are exempt from real estate taxes in this State, your Board
of Directors felt we were entitled to the same consideration. Suit
was therefore instituted with the consent and approval of Synod’s
Board of Directors, and even though the case was appealed to
the Supreme Court of the State of Missouri, we were unsuccessful
in our efforts and therefore continue to pay real estate taxes. We,
of course, feel that this represents a miscarriage of justice.

Our periodicals are enjoying a wide circulation. Of the twenty-
eight Districts in North America twenty-four are now co-operating
in the Lutheran Witness District-wide subscription plan. At present
the Witness is being sent to 295,000 subscribers. Der Lutheraner
is also included in the District-wide subscription plan, and after
103 years of existence still boasts of a subscription list of 30,000.
Periodicals which had been reduced in number of pages because
of paper shortage, have again been enlarged to their pre-war size.

The Lutheran Hymnal continues to be in great demand, and to
date approximately 1,200,000 copies have been sold.

During the past triennium our music department has been
expanded and service materially increased. The Concordia Music

Catalog contains a listing of more sacred music than any other ~
catalog in the country. A number of new selections were issued
during the past years which have already proved very popular.

Our new tract-publishing program has proved very successful,