# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1947_S549
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

PUBLICATION MATTERS

se tracts seem to fill a real need. Some of the tracts have been

tributed in quantities as high as 140,000. The publication of

itional tracts on problems of the day is planned. During the

year, under the auspices of the General Home Mission Board,

project in the form of a folder known as Just a Minute was

d. It is being sold at the rate of approximately 200,000 per
e.and is a bimonthly publication.

Some years ago Concordia Publishing House announced the
‘oncordia New Testament with Notes. The demand for this Testa-
ent has induced Concordia Publishing House to publish the entire
ible in this form, and it can announce that the Bible, that is,

the entire Bible with notes, is now available. The book is printed
in large, readable type and should prove helpful to all Bible stu-
dents. In connection with this venture we may say that a project is
to be offered this fall containing illustrated Bible stories. It will
ppear in the form of a four-page 8% X11 folder. This folder will
e sold on a subscription basis and is to be known as Bible Stories
‘in Pictures. :

For the first time we are this year offering a complete series
of materials for daily vacation Bible schools. Among Sunday school
projects are a series of colored leaflets for the Nursery and Cradle

-Roll Departments of the Sunday school. Another publication in
the interest of the Sunday school will be a supplementary course
entitled The Story of the Bible. Sunday school lessons in Spanish
and Portuguese have also been made available.

At the convention in 1944 Synod empowered Concordia Pub-
lishing House and the Board for Parish Education to edit and
publish a so-called “Family Magazine.” This matter has been given
a great deal of consideration. However, we must report that at this
writing no editor for such a magazine has been found.

According to Synod’s resolution the Centennial Literature
Committee was to publish various publications. Under this com-
mittee’s direction three books have been published: The Abiding
Word, A Century of Grace, and My Church. Furthermore we may
report that the first two volumes of the Devotional Bible are now
in production. In addition, other Centennial materials and orders
of services have been produced.

We may also report that funds have been made available, in
accordance with a resolution of the Saginaw convention, so that

’ the editors designated by the Literature Board may spend full time,
or at least part of their time, in preparing manuscripts for the so-
called Scholarly Commentary of the Bible.

The Board of Directors of Concordia Publishing House has set
‘aside a sinking fund for further expansion and additional equip-
ment and has transferred to the Treasurer of Synod the sum of
$335,000. As the fiscal year of the Publishing House closes on