# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S526
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526 INTERSYNODICAL AND DOCTRINAL MATTERS

Synodical Conference, the Associated Lutheran Charities, official
representatives of the English District, members of the College of
Presidents, members of the clergy, and representatives of the
National Lutheran Council. It studied carefully the origin, consti-
tution, history, and development of the National Lutheran Council
from 1918 to 1950.

The following report and recommendation were arrived at
individually and collectively after many hours of fervent prayer and
days of careful deliberations, and they are herewith submitted to
the pastors, teachers, and congregations of our Synod for.study and
to the synodical convention at Milwaukee, Wis., for adoption.

Brief History of the National Lutheran Council in Relation
to The Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod

The National Lutheran Council was organized in 1918. The
constituent bodies in the National Lutheran Council at present are:
The United Lutheran Church, the Evangelical Lutheran Church,
the American Lutheran Church, the Augustana Evangelical Lu-
theran Church, the Lutheran Free Church, the United Evangelical
Lutheran Church, the Suomi Synod, the Danish Evangelical Lu-
theran Church.

1920 to 1940

In the third and fourth decades of the twentieth century there
was no official relationship between the Missouri Synod and the
National Lutheran Council. Our available records do not show
any overture made by either the Missouri Synod or the National
‘Lutheran Council to join in or to co-operate in or to co-ordinate
work carried on by either organization during those years.

1941 to 1949

Since the year 1941 various approaches have been made both
by the Missouri Synod to the National Lutheran Council and by
the National Lutheran Council to the Missouri Synod to .allocate
work on a comity basis, or to co-ordinate or to co-operate, in
certain emergency-born projects brought about by the Second
World War.

The first of these projects related to Relief for Orphaned Mis-
sions in- Africa and the Orient, which had been cut off from their
home bases by the outbreak of World War II. Since 1940 the Armed
Services Commission of the Missouri Synod has worked on the
basis of allocation and co-ordination and comity with the Armed
Service Commission of the National Lutheran Council. The Emer-
gency Planning Council has worked together with the National
Lutheran Council in Prisoner of War work and in various phases
of physical relief work in war-torn areas. .