# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1947_S648
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648 MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS

1. To seek out those problems confronting the Church in these
abnormal and changing world conditions in which the Church lives
today, and such problems and questions as always confront the
Church, but are aggravated and become critical in times like these;

2. To study, analyze, and diagnose such problems and to plan
and develop solutions for them;

3. To allocate to existing agencies, boards, or commissions, the
problems belonging to their respective sphere of work and to sug-
gest to them plans and methods for their solution;

4. To create in our Church a consciousness of these problems
and the responsibilities which devolve upon us in them;

5. To serve as a clearinghouse for suggestions and information
to the Church on questions arising out of war and postwar problems.

The Council has at all times been keenly conscious that it is,
as its name implies, an advisory council, not an executive or
legislative body. In its six years of activity there was at all times
perfect harmony between our Committee and other synodical,
District, and congregational committees with which it worked.

The Council is composed of three sections: a. An Executive
Committee; b. A Committee at Large; c. Advisory Members.

Executive Committee: Dr. L. J. Sieck, Chairman; Dr. L. Meyer,
Executive Director; Dr. J. W. Behnken; Dr. R. R. Caemmerer;
Rev. A. Doerffler; Dr. J. H. C. Fritz; Dr. F. C. Streufert; Mr. W.
H. Kroehnke.

Committee at Large: Rev. E. T. Bernthal; Mr. H. Buck; Rev.
O. R. Harms; Mr. A. E. Horst; Rev. F. Menzel; Rev. R. Ressmeyer;

.Dr. P. Schulz; Rev. F. J. Seltz.

Lutheran Laymen’s League Advisory Committee: Mr. H. G.
Amling; Mr. O. P. Brauer; Mr. O. T. Doerr; Mr. T. G. Eggers.

Walther League Advisory Committee: Rev. A. R. Kretzmann;
Prof. O. H. Theiss.

Advisory Members: Rev. F. Niedner, Church Extension
Board; Rev. Clarence Peters, Young People’s Board; Rev. O. H.
Schmidt, Board of Foreign Missions; Mr. A. C. Stellhorn, Board
for Parish Education; Mrs. Clara Schmitt, Lutheran Women’s Mis-
sionary League; Rev. A. F. Bobzin, Board for Home Missions in
Europe; Rev. P. L. Dannenfeldt, Army and Navy Commission.

Shifting Population
That the creation of such a council was a necessity can readily
be seen when we bear in mind that within four years twenty-five
million United States citizens had moved to seven hundred and

fifty war-production areas and some ten million men and women

in the armed services had traveled back and forth across the land.