# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1947_S563
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

PUBLICATION MATTERS

erly of Valparaiso University and now a member of the faculty
forthwestern University, has submitted to Concordia Publishing
use. a comprehensive and scholarly manuscript on the life of
her, based on a careful study of source materials. This large
ume should be on the market within the year. — Another volume
a Luther in the course of preparation is “This Is Luther,” by
Professor Ewald Plass of Milwaukee, designed to portray Luther
by quotations from his own writings.
7 Much time and study were given to the production of suitable
acts, short, pithy, attractive presentations of vital subjects. In an
age in which people want to do “quick reading,” the religious tract
can be a considerable factor. Some of our tracts have had a phe-
menal sale. A list of tracts recently published will be catalogued
bY Concordia Publishing House in its report to Synod, Additional
tracts, in various stages of preparation, will cover “Labor,” “Com-
nunism,” “Christian Citizenship,” and other subjects.
The devotional booklets initiated by your Board a number of
ears ago continue to enjoy wide usage and, according to the many
communications received, have been a source of rich blessing.
The English number approximates the 500,000-mark per issue.
The market of the German number is much smaller; however,
about 35,000 copies are sold per issue.—- Among other devotional
literature produced by your Board in the past triennium, we men-
tion Treasures of Hope. This book has been well received also
in circles outside our own Church.
a At the solicitation of your Board, Dr. O. A. Geiseman authored
Make Yours a Happy Marriage, which is enjoying a large sale
also in non-Lutheran circles, The same author is now writing
a larger volume on “Christian Psychology,” which is to be a
popular but comprehensive treatment of living the Christian life

“ in the present world order. Another project in this field is a volume

’- on the “Problem of Adolescence,” being prepared by the Rev.
e Henry Wind.

- Other projects in the making are: “A Bible Dictionary”; Con-
cordia Cyclopedia (thorough revision); the publication of the New
Testament in a more readable style, with a brief introduction to
the various books; a volume on “Stewardship“; an “Anthology of
Lutheran Poetry”; “The Church Through the Ages,” a church
history for schools; the reproduction in English of Stoeckhardt’s
Roemerbrief and Epheserbrief.

The faculty of Concordia Seminary, St.Louis, directed the
attention of your Board to the fact that certain standard works,
. considered “must” books for theological studies, are not now
available on the book market. Such titles as these were mentioned: