# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1947_S661
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS 661

erously given their time and energy and thought — Dr. L. J. Sieck,
chairman; Dr. R. R, Caemmerer;, Rev. A. Doerffler; Dr. J. H.C.
Fritz; Mr. Walter Kroencke; Dr. F. C. Streufert; to the members
‘of the European Mission Board for their wholehearted co-operation
and co-ordination; to our staff of workers in the office, who have
worked incessantly towards a well-functioning program; to all
these the Church owes thanks. ,

To Mr. Walter H. Schlueter, synodical Treasurer, who has put
at our disposal free of charge storage and packing facilities in his
manufacturing plant in St. Louis, Mo., thereby saving our Council
thousands of dollars, we owe thanks.

A very special expression of appreciation is due to Dr. S. C.
Michelfelder, Mr. Frank Northam, Dr. R. Barstow, Dr. J. Lyttle,
members of the World Council in Geneva, Switzerland, for their
invaluable suggestions and help.

To the thousands of consecrated men, women, and children
who have sent a continuous stream of gifts ranging from twenty-five
cents to $100,000, in the name of starving, destitute, forlorn humanity
_we say: “God bless you all!”

Into Tomorrow

For centuries there have been wars undertaken in the firm
conviction that they would end future hostilities, abolish despotism,
make the world safe for democracy, ‘overcome injustice, eliminate
misery, and recreate the rights and freedoms of man. But we
Christians know that such efforts have been in vain and will con-
tinue to be futile until we can thoroughly implant the spirit of
Christ into the hearts of men. Only .through Him will the hate-
filled minds of humanity be changed; only through Him will
greed, pride, prejudice, be dispersed; only through Him will this
world become a better place to live in. We must, therefore, ask
God for a large measure of His Holy Spirit for our own lives —
the better to disseminate His Gospel over all the world.

Looking into tomorrow, huge obligations and opportunities for
the spreading of this Word loom before us. To meet them
adequately, we must recapture the Savior’s vision of world con-
quest: “Go ye into ‘all the world and preach the Gospel to every
creature.”

Through our material help we have sustained some of destitute
mankind. Through our spiritual aid we have focused many to the
saving Christ. It is through us that God seeks to move over the
face of the earth with His Holy Spirit to bring even greater order
out of spiritual chaos and to re-create more men and women into
a faint semblance of what. they were before sin entered. The hour
for such a challenge from God is at hand. We must meet it!