# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1947_S562
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562 PUBLICATION MATTERS

unforeseen difficulties have frustrated our plans. However, one
manuscript, Government in the Missouri Synod, by Dr. Carl
Mundinger of Winfield, Kans., will appear in print in a few months,
Other manuscripts in this series, in various stages of completion, are:

“The Saxon Immigration to 1841”

“The Saxons in Missouri to 1847”

“William Loehe and the Saginaw Valley Settlements”

“The First 25 Years of Missouri Synod History”

“The Second 25 Years of Missouri Synod History”

“The Life of C. F. W. Walther”

“The Life of F.C. D. Wyneken”

“The History of Concordia Seminary, St. Louis”

“The Organization of the Synodical Conference,” _

including the previous history of its constituent synods

“Union Movements”

“The History of Concordia Seminary, Springfield”

The Saginaw convention (Proceedings, 1944, p. 275) instructed
the Literature Board and the Board of Directors of Concordia
Publishing House to “make the question of translations of addi-
tional portions of Luther’s works the subject of further investiga-
tion and offer its report at the next convention.” Accordingly,
your Board made this the subject of a special study. It was found
that there is a considerable number of translations of certain por-
tions of Luther’s works available beyond the Holman edition of
Luther usually referred to. Your Board is of the opinion that
our Synod should not at the present undertake to publish addi-
tional translations. Your Board has recommended that Concordia
Publishing House carry in its catalog a section listing all available
translations of Luther’s writings. (See C. P. H. Catalog, 1947,
pp. 94—98.)

The directions given your Board by the Saginaw convention
that it “acquaint itself with the details of the problem” of the
publication of a new English translation of the Bible which would
be “acceptable to our people” and to “our congregations for public
worship” (Proceedings, 1944, p. 273), were carefully considered, but
no action was taken. It was deemed advisable to await the pub-
lication and reception of the Revised Standard Version, on which
many noted scholars worked for a decade. The New Testament
was published in 1946, and its reception indicates the all but im-
possible task of producing a translation which would be acceptable

to any larger number of people. We have been in correspondence _

with the publishers requesting permission to suggest certain
changes which would make this translation more acceptable in

our circles. Through our efforts Dr. G. V. Schick, Concordia Semi- _

nary, St. Louis, was made an advisory member of the Committee on
the Old Testament, now in process of translation.
Your Board is pleased to announce that Dr. E. G. Schwiebert,