# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1947_S670
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

670 MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS

Some three and a half million German-speaking people of ;
Poland, mostly of the Lutheran faith, and many Polish Lutherans aes
have been deprived of their property and civil rights. Many have
been expelled. Those not expelled and those seized by Russian
armies have met a fate we may never know about. Many in Poland
are virtual outcasts and treated as outlaws. Some reports tell us
that their religous beliefs are under attack, Their lives are in con- .,
stant danger, and they have no opportunity to assert either their
civil or property rights unless we in America set up an organiza- .'@
tion, and this Association has undertaken that great task and needs 2
‘the help of the Lutheran Synod of Missouri and through this Synod
can hope to enlist the aid of other Lutheran church bodies. 3

We ask your aid to the end that this Association or some similar 3
organization may work in co-operation with our Lutheran churches -*
throughout the United States and secure the support necessary to
bring about a recognition of the plight of these people and proper 3
action to remedy their distress and correct the injustice towards
them. Neither God nor our Savior can long look on their plight
without compassion and the desire to give them relief.

Very sincerely yours,

ACTION AvoitpH Dutin

Action on this matter was included in the action on the report
of the N.A.E.P.C.

Memorial of the Housing Committee
(Unprinted Memorial 95)

Wuereas, The growth of Synod and the changing economic con-
ditions of its members (housing) make it increasingly difficult
adequately to house the triennial convention;

Wuereas, The housing of the convention in a manner similar
to that of this Centennial Convention has many advantages —
making the delegates more comfortable, more accessible for the
business of the convention (evening meetings, etc.), providing
more adequate facilities, in general expediting the work of the
convention, bringing the program of the Church into the world in
which Christ would have it minister;

WuerEas, The cost of arranging the convention in this manner
is not excessive when properly ordered and spread among the
member congregations;

Therefore the Centennial Convention Arrangement Committee
petitions Synod in convention to recommend the adoption of such
a program in the future and to recommend to District synods that