# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S1257
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

778 FINANCIAL MATTERS

Wuereas, The program is solely and wholly under Missourj
Synod auspices and control, and desires to remain so; and

Wuereas, Through this program the cause of missions can be
effectually served over a nation-wide area through a new channe]
by the Missouri Synod and promote the habit of daily devotions:
therefore be it ‘

Resolved, That The Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod fully
endorses the project of the Family Worship Hour and subsidizes
its program annually to the extent of fifty thousand dollars

($50,000) for three years. Fami.y Worsur Hour

T. H. Scuuake
ACTION

Upon recommendation of Committee 11, Synod resolved:

Resolution 25

Your Committee has studied this matter and makes the fol-
lowing recommendation:

Wnuereas, This request has real merit; and

WHEREAS, We are not ina position at this convention to foresee
what funds may be available for such purposes; therefore be it

Resolved, That this matter be referred to the Board for Mis-
sions in North and South America for careful consideration.

Raising Salaries of Pastors and Synodical Employees
(Unprinted Memorial 54)
Resolution 22

Your Committee studied the following recommendation:

Wuereas, The Bureau of Labor Statistics of the United States
Government figures show that living costs throughout our nation
have increased over 67 per cent since 1939; and

Wuereas, The professors and instructors at our seminaries and
colleges and our pastors are receiving salaries generally much lower
than the professors and instructors and clergymen of other leading
Protestant denominations; and

Whereas, Our parochial school teachers are generally paid
salaries far below the State scale; and

Wuereas, Our professors and instructors and pastors and
teachers are often at a disadvantage because of this condition when
meeting men of the State schools and churches of leading Protestant
denominations about on an equal plane; and

Wuereas, Salaries paid to men in Positions of equal respon-