# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1947_S566
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566 PUBLICATION MATTERS

literature. We are happy to report that an increased number ‘of a
congregations have availed themselves of these lists and are build-
ing their libraries from them.

Your Board wishes to acknowledge with gratitude the co-
operative spirit of Mr. O. A. Dorn and various personnel of Con-
cordia Publishing House. We also commend them very highly for
the enterprising spirit in producing and selling a greater variety of
Christian literature.

We furthermore urge the pastors and teachers, together with
their congregations, to avail themselves of the fruits of our labors
by establishing school and Sunday school libraries with these high-
quality books.

We also beg our honorable Synod to continue its support of
the work of the Young People’s Literature Board and in every way
possible to make the work of the Board more effective in the
spread of wholesome, Christian literature.

JouN THEODORE MuELuer, Chairman
R. Detventua, Secretary

ACTION
This report was received with thanks.

Report of the Catechism Committee
(Memorial 708)

Since the Saginaw Convention the Catechism Committee has
issued Instructor’s Manual for Luther’s Small Catechism and the
workbook Learning and Living. Both of these publications were
produced by Rev. H. C. Boettcher, Director of Christian Education
of the Minnesota District.

The Instructor’s Manual is designed to be of help to pastors
and teachers in the teaching of the Catechism by organizing the
material into units of instruction and by making suggestions for
enrichment through audio-visual aids, group activities, supplemen-
tary reading, and correlation with other subjects; it stresses the
importance of interested, purposeful participation of the learner in
the teaching-learning process.

The workbook Learning and Living stresses self-activity in
connection with the unit of instruction of the week; it enlists
parental co-operation, thus bringing the classroom into the home
and the home into the classroom. While written for the maturity
level of pupils in the sixth grade, provisions have been made for
individual differences among children. Over 14,000 copies have
already been sold. ,