# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S1148
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600 INTERSYNODICAL AND DOCTRINAL MATTERS

abundantly.
In order that thous
be put at ease, we

1. Respectfully request the Hon

. Synod to give
unequivocal answers to the following questions: ave us clear and

A. Do you accept or do so 6
. you reject “A State 9 .
trinal aberrations? ment” with its doc-

ands of troubled. souls in our Synod might

B. Do you accept or do you reject the St. Louis Facul
on Rom. 16:17-18, which reads: “We shall never
say with absolute certainty whether Paul is he
a general warning or is speaki
if the latter is the case, what particular group he has in

mind.” (“Church F ‘ellowship,” Opini
Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, Mo, Ma by the Faculty of

ty opinion
be able to

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ng of a special group, and

-C. Do you accept or do you reject the Position taken in Dr

Theo.. Graebner’s Prayer Fellowship, page 4: “Rom. 16:17
deals with enemies of the truth who come with the sinist
Purpose of deceiving innocent hearers,” a position which for
all practical purposes removes Rom. 16:17 from the Scrip.
tures, which are “profitable for doctrine, for reproof, etn?
D. Do you accept or do you reject the unscriptural position
taken in an essay delivered before two synodical Districts,
where Dr. W. Arndt, in speaking of establishing fellowship
says: “Church fellowship is not rhade impossible by the
existence of error in the views of an individual or a church
body, provided these errors are of a non-fundamental na-
are and the ight attitude toward Christ and the Word of
Is maintained”? — i i i i
and Neonat Districts 1 “em California and California
E. Do you accept or do
the St. Louis Faculty
not be regarded as tan
_F. Do you approve of or

you reject the unscriptural opinion of
that betrothal or engagement must -
tamount to marriage”? —May 24, 1949.

do you condemn the unionism which

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INTERSYNODICAL AND DOCTRINAL MATTERS 601

: 1c! with the sanction of the Faculty is practiced by some of the
i.e: students of our St.Louis Seminary in the Association of
Lutheran Seminarians? Lutheran Witness, November 18,

1947.

G. Do you approve of or do you condemn the unionism prac-
ticed by some of our Youth leaders at All-Lutheran Youth
Conferences, as well as their efforts to arrange an All-
Lutheran Youth Congress, an All-Lutheran Youth Magazine,
All-Lutheran Study Topics, etc.? — Lutheran Standard,
July 2, 1949— Lutheran Witness, February 11, 1947, No-
vember 16, 1948— American Lutheran, October, 1948.

. Do you approve of or do you condemn the unionism that
is practiced brazenly in many sections of our Synod by both
pastors and laymen in actual worship services and in open-
ing and closing devotions at All-Lutheran meetings, All-

' Lutheran councils, All-Lutheran welfare organizations, etc.?
Examples are so numerous and so well known that an
enumeration is not necessary.

I. Do you approve of or do you condemn the publishing in the
Lutheran Witness without a word of condemnation or warn-
ing of such incidents? March 11, 1947-—- March 25, 1947 —
March 9, 1948 — Dec. 14, 1948.

J. Do you approve of or do you condemn the use of our official
publication, the Lutheran Witness, to make propaganda for
the unscriptural principles of fellowship urged in “A State-
ment”? December 16, 1947— March 23, 1948—- December 14,
1948 — May 18, 1948 — May 3, 1949.

2. Plead in deep earnestness that the Hon. Synod institute
effective measures AT THIS CONVENTION to remove without

* delay this dangerous leaven of false doctrine and practice from

our body. St. Pavt’s Ev. Lurseran Cuurcu

Wa ter ScHMECKPEPER, Chairman
Ra.pH Braver, Secretary
Arruur A. Braver, Pastor

Reject “A Statement”
(Memorial 613)

In 1947 Trinity Congregation laid before Synod a memorial on
doctrine which rose out of the issuance of “A Statement” and
its companion documents (the accompanying letter and Speaking
the Truth in Love). The memorial was not printed in the Book of
Overtures, and the 1947 convention was not acquainted with its text.
The overture was listed as “similar” to Memorial 616 (Proceedings,

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