# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S1149
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

of Overtures for the 1950 convention,

Also, we note the following facts: 1) The “Agreement” reached
by the Presidency and signers of “A Statement” in January, 1947,
provided that “A Statement” be “withdrawn as a basis of discus_
sion.” Nevertheless, Speaking the Truth in Love, a booklet con.
taining “A Statement” and essays defending it, was sold on the
campus of our St. Louis Seminary as Jate as December, 1948. We

its doctrine and practice. 3) Signers of “A Statement” have pub-
licly declared, after the issuance of the “Agreement,” that they
fully support “A Statement,” 4) In the three years and two months
since the “Agreement” was announced, the two sets of “Theses,”
Sponsored and prepared by the Presidency, have not covered the
issues raised by “A Statement,” and it is manifest that the issues
involved have not been resolved by the “Theses” provided,

Because the Word of God commands us to scrutinize and judge
all doctrine and requires that the practice of church fellowship
be regulated by full agreement in doctrine and confession, the
members of Trinity Congregation, Oak Park, Ill, have examined
“A Statement” and its accompanying documents. We have taken
note of the announcement of the President of Synod that “A State-
ment” and its accompanying letter are withdrawn by representa-
tives of the Signers only “as a basis of discussion” ‘and that this
“shall not be interpreted as a retraction.” We have also noted the
assurance given that the signers hold Synod’s Scriptural position
on unionism and the divisiveness of any error persistently held,
and, on the other hand, we have taken cognizance of the statement
that “issues” remain and that “the issues involved” shall not now
“be glossed over or ignored,”