# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1947_S633
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

APPEAL MATTERS

id acting on the report of Committee 20B of the
ention.
“~ommittee finds no error in the procedure of the Board
this case, nor does it find any new evidence per-
is case. Your Committee therefore recommends that
of the Board of Appeals be sustained and confirmed.
it resolved that the officials of the English District be
t this time to file a statement in connection with the
iommittee 20 B of the Saginaw Convention.
“ Rev. E. H. Riese Mr, H. ALWaARDT
Rev. J. H. JUNGEMANN Mr. G. HAERTHER
TeacHer A. H. MeEYERMANN

ation, Oak Park, reads as follows:
‘The undersigned representatives of the English District regret
the Appeal of O. H. Pannkoke against the English District and
ty. Congregation, Oak Park, has been continued through no
r action of the English District or of its respective officers, and
dt was not properly concluded in the Fort Wayne Conven-
941.
‘The English District through its officers will not protest Synod’s
ding the same at the present convention.
e, however, feel constrained to register this dissent with the
ittee reviewing this matter, with Synod, and with Synod’s
ident as a matter of conviction and for the sake of conscience.
yt is our deliberate conviction that the conclusions in this case
ve. been reached on the basis of premises which do violence to
ciples based on the Word of God and accepted by our Church
“matters of discipline, and which, if permitted to stand as a
ecedent, will render proper procedure in church discipline ex-
dingly difficult, if not impossible, in the future.
“It is our deliberate conviction that the verdict does not protect
e rights of the congregation involved, as provided for in Synod’s
nstitution, Art. III, nor does it protect the rights of the original

tif. “ (Signed)
“MARTIN WALKER “BernarRpD H. HEMMETER
“RICHARD JESSE “H. W. BartTELs
“Huco KiErNER “C, F, DANKWoORTH”

“EDWIN WILSON
“Dated July 28, 1947

“The undersigned, representing Trinity Congregation, Oak
@ Park, concur in the above. “ (Signed)

“H, W. RoMosEerR “Ww. C. IwERT”