# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S1348
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886 CONVENTION MINUTES

Session 6
June 24, A.M.

The sixth session of the convention was opened with devotional
exercises by Vice-President E. J. Friedrich. Synod resolved to
suspend rules and permit the Election Committee to use the infor-
mation sheets as ballots. The minutes of the preceding meeting
were read and adopted. Prof. M. Franzmann read the third
installment of his essay, based on Rev. 2:8-11, the Letter to the
Congregation at Smyrna.

(Committee 2, T.B., p.25)

Rev. Rudolf Hasse, President of the Brazil District, gave an
overview of work in South America, pointing out that the future
source of growth must be found chiefly among the native Brazilians,
who in large number are barely nominal members of the Catholic
Church. His report was supplemented by the Assistant Director
of Missions, the Rev. H. A. Mayer. Synod commended the enthusi-
astic support of the Church by our fellow Christians of South
America, urged them to become self-supporting in order to make
funds available for other mission fields, to expand work in Spantsh
and Portuguese, and to train a native ministry (Resolution 12).
Pursuant to the request of the missionaries, Synod encouraged
more prayer for missionaries and asked mission secretaries to
make provisions for such systematic and sustained prayer (Reso-

lution 15).
ution 15) (Committee 1)

The changes in the Handbook proposed by Committee 1 were
accepted in the versions presented in Today’s Business, pages
55—58, Resolutions 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, and 20. The Board for Higher
Education was authorized to arrange special courses in admin-
istration for the benefit of the presidents of Synod’s ‘institutions
and was granted an appropriation of $4,500 for this purpose (Reso-
lution 21). All institutions were authorized to conduct summer
schools. Five thousand dollars was placed at the disposal of the
Board for Higher Education to support this work where it be-
comes necessary {Resolution 22). Committee 1 presented resolu-
tions designed to undertake and complete the physical expansion
program, which was the fourth plank in the platform of the Board
for Higher Education (Resolution 25). No action was taken.

(Committee 3, T.B., p.60, Memorials 608, 612, 625—631)

The Committee presented its resolutions relative to Rom. 16:
17-18, asking Synod to reaffirm as Scripturally correct the use of
verse 17 in the Constitution of Synod, the synodical Catechism, and
the Brief Statement; to accept verse 17 as warning against all