# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1947_S660
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

660 MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS

ment has been inaugurated. All letters are carefully read, analyzed,
and classified according to expressed needs,

The Department issues every month a clergy bulletin in the
German language which is sent to some 2,000 ministers in Europe.

Dr. F, E. Mayer

The Council expresses special thanks to Dr, F. E. Mayer, pro-
fessor of theology at our Concordia Seminary, who in the summer of
1946 was chosen by Dr. J. W. Behnken as his personal representa-
tive to the Landeskirche and theological schools in Germany. While
visiting the leaders and heads of these organizations, Dr. Mayer
was well received and accomplished much to further closer rela-
tionship between the Missouri Synod and the confessional Church
of Germany. His sincere, orthodox, and thoroughly Christian spirit
influenced the men visited to such an extent that Dr. Mayer has
received various requests to renew his European visits and, if pos-
sible, also to teach several courses in seminaries and universities
abroad. In all likelihood Dr. Mayer will return to Europe this
summer in answer to these urgent requests.

Rev. E. T. Bernthal

The Council is appreciative of the special services rendered by
the Rev. E. T. Bernthal, pastor of Epiphany Evangelical Lutheran
Church, Detroit, Mich. Rev. Bernthal, who was appointed by Dr.
J. W. Behnken as Governmental Relations man, has rendered
valuable service to the church at large in presenting our Synod
to the Government as loyal American citizens. He has also given
special service to our Council by helping to secure building
priorities in defense areas, purchasing vital items for relief work,
and arranging military relationship,

Special Thanks .

We owe thanks to many organizations and individuals who
have extended innumerable hands for the work of the Emergency
Planning Council. We owe special thanks to the Walther League
for its splendid job in the adoption program; to the Lutheran
Women’s Missionary League for its work of love, with its moun-
tains of clothing for children, its hundreds of medicine kits, and its
“one hundred dollars per year per orphan” program; to the many
Seminary students who have labored during rush periods; to our
fellow Lutherans in Canada, South America, Finland, Poland,
China, Norway, Sweden, France — to all those we owe thanks for
their encouraging co-operation,

To the members of the Executive Committee of the Emergency
Planning council, who through all these war years have so gen-