# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S1028
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8380 ; SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

cancel the conference was made very early in 1949, when the fiscal
year had run less than two months, when no one could possibly. g
predict what the financial situation would be in the summer of @
1949, when Synod had a cash balance amounting to $893,496.88 in _
the Postwar Reserve Fund and when the professors’ conference
called for an expenditure of less than 1% of Synod’s budgetary,
commitments for educational purposes. We further call attention
to the fact that the financial situation in our Synod did not cause, ,
the cancellation of certain other conventions, such as that of th
workers among the deaf. Neither were the professors given the
opportunity to meet and pay a part or all of their expenses. Not
many years ago a professors’ conference was held under such’ *
conditions.

These conferences constitute the only opportunity the profes
sors have to discuss their common problems and to make their. .@
wishes known. The cancellation of a conference which the synod- .
ical Handbook makes mandatory is a step toward bureaucracy and
away from democracy, especially since these professors’ confer
ences are a time-honored institution of our Synod which has_
received the praise of accrediting agencies. ;

We therefore urge the convention to leave Section 6.11 intact.
and to encourage the Board for Higher Education to give it effect

Facuity oF Concorpis Cotiece, St. PAut, Minn. :

W. A. Poruuer, President
Artuur C. STREUFERT, Secretary

ACTION .

This memorial was considered by Committee 1 in connection

with its resolution on Handbook Section 6.11 as given under Sec-

tion “F,” Recommendations on Administrative Relations, of the
Report of the Board for Higher Education.

Rescind Resolution re Retirement Age of Professors
(Memorial 144)

We, the faculty of Concordia College in St.Paul, Minn., re-
spectfully petition Synod to rescind the resolution of the 1944 con-
vention regarding the retirement of professors at the age 0
seventy. (Proc., 1944, p.112.) .

We hold that this resolution violates the doctrine of the call:

Since the organization of our Synod it has been Synod’s posi-
tion, based upon the doctrine of the call, that a pastor can be re-
moved from office only because of 1) adherence to false doctrine,
2) conduct unbecoming a Christian, 3) willful neglect of duty,.
4) incompetency. “If God therefore has called a man, such a man