# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S710
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

12 PRESIDENT’S TRIENNIAL REPORT

to ascertain the advisability of engaging a full-time executive
secretary of social welfare made a favorable report to the Board
of Directors. The suggestions were then passed on to the Fiscal
Conference, since it involved financial allocations in Synod’s
budget. On account of the condition of the treasury the Fiscal
Conference did not consider it wise to add this item to the budget.

Since our last convention the document of doctrinal agreement
reached between the Evangelical Lutheran Free Church of Ger-
many and the “Evangelisch-Lutherische Kirche im frueheren Alt-
preussen” (Breslau Synod) was approved by the Faculty in
St. Louis. Undoubtedly our convention will pass appropriate reso-
lutions thanking God for the blessings bestowed and expressing
its joy over the fact that we are now in pulpit and altar fellowship
also with the Breslau Synod.

Since our last convention the Evangelical Lutheran Free
Church of Germany and the “Evangelisch-Lutherische Kirche im
frueheren Altpreussen” (Breslau Synod) have conducted negotia-
tions with other free churches in Germany.. Dr. P. H. Petersen
of the Evangelical Lutheran Free Church reported that pulpit
and altar fellowship is now a reality among practically all the
free churches. A further report on this matter will be presented
to our convention by Committee 3.

According to Article 11.23 in our synodical Handbook, para-
graph h, the Faculty of Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, together
with the President and the Vice-Presidents of Synod shall appoint
or may terminate the appointment of the editors or the editorial
committee of the Lutheran Witness and Der Lutheraner. The
Faculty had acted prior to the last convention and then sought
approval of the appointments upon which it had decided. In the
fall of 1949, when the matter of new appointments or reappoint-
ments was up again for consideration, Dr. Arthur Brunn and your
President in behalf of the Praesidium met with the Faculty. The
Praesidium felt that a full-time editor for the Lutheran Witness
should be appointed and that the editor need not be, yes, should
not be a member of the Faculty. It is understood, of course, that
the doctrinal contents of the Lutheran Witness and other periodicals
of Synod must remain under the censorship of the Faculty. The
Praesidium felt. that the stipulations in the synodical Handbook
which read: “The Lutheran Witness and Der Lutheraner shall
be the official organs of Synod and shall be under the editorship
of the Faculty of the St. Louis Seminary” do not demand that the
editor must be a member of the Faculty. Since there was a differ-
ence of opinion between the Faculty and the Praesidium, it was de-
cided that Prof. Arthur C. ‘Repp should be added to the group of
editors, since Dr. Theo. Graebner had resigned after serving more