# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S477
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490 MISSIONS

ACTION

By adopting the following resolution of Committee 11, Synod

rejected this memorial: Resolution 14

Your Committee carefully examined Overture 417 and makes
the following recommendation: a

Wuereas, Our Synod has doubled in membership during the
last twenty-five years and has experienced unparalleled growth in
the last triennium; and

Wuereas, It becomes apparent that the special needs of the
Church have likewise multiplied; and

Wuenreas, Many of these needs can best be supplied and good
stewardship of manpower can best be practiced by engaging spe-
cially trained and endowed people; and

Wuereas, The materials and helps produced by other churches
and denominations present a challenge to our Church and min-
istry; and

Wuereas, Far more is spent for missions, in the specific and
in the general sense, than is stated in the overture; and

Wuereas, The Church has reason to place full confidence in
its Board of Directors and the Fiscal Conference, that they will
use the available funds wisely and impartially; therefore be it now

Resolved, That we reject this overture.

Report of Board of Missions for the Blind
(Memorial 1015)

Until the time of the Chicago Convention in 1947 the work
of our Church among the visually handicapped was directed by
our Board for the Deaf and the Blind. Because this work was
of a very individual nature and often did not fit under the scope
of the Board for the Deaf, and needed more individualized atten-
tion, Synod was memorialized to divide the work and assign
the work among the Blind to a new Board. This was done by
resolution of the Chicago Convention, and a new Board, consisting
of Pastors Martin Strasen, Arthur Oswald, and Victor Selle, all
of Milwaukee, and Messrs. Victor Miller, of Milwaukee, and Theo-
dore Lay, of New York, was elected. To expedite the work of this
Board, Synod also authorized the calling of an Executive Secretary
in this Department. Since all but one of the Board members were
from the Milwaukee area, Mr. Theodore Lay requested to be
relieved of-his appointment, in view of the distance that he lived
from Milwaukee, and also the inconvenience this would entail
in attending Board meetings. This request was granted and