# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S1350
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

888 CONVENTION MINUTES

Herbert Berner; Profs. Wm. F. Arndt, H. O. A. Keinath; Pastors
Paul Mehl, Theophilus Strieter; Messrs. John Runge, Louis Dau,
Lawrence Holt, Louis Prange, H. F. F. Voertman.

General Church Extension Board: Slate 1: Pastors Martin
Haendschke, Theo. Roschke; Teachers Walter O. Brauer, Rudolph
Baerns; Laymen: Messrs. Walter Kroencke, Elmer Fischer. ,

Board for Young People’s Work: Slate 1: Rev. Clarence Peters;
Prof. L. W. Spitz; Teachers Homer C. Gruber, Paul W. Jabker;
Layman: Mr. Gilbert Muchow.

Session 7
June 26, A.M.

The meditation with which the seventh session began was
delivered by the Rev. J. H. Meyer, President of the Central
District, stressing the great missionary call of the world. Prof. M.
Franzmann thereupon delivered the fourth installment of his essay,
on Rev. 2:19-29: The Letters to the Congregations at Pergamus
and Thyatira. It was resolved to thank Professor Franzmann for
his essay.

(Committee 2, T. B., p. 24)

Dr. O. H. Schmidt, Executive Secretary of the Board for
Foreign Missions, presented an overview of our work in the Orient
with its particularly thrilling details from New Guinea and Japan.
Chaplain Wm. J. Reiss supplemented this overview with some
personal observations from Japan. Recognizing the signal blessings
of God upon our mission work in foreign lands, Synod resolved to
offer a special prayer of thanksgiving to God, extended a greeting
to its missionaries, voiced its appreciation for their consecrated
services, commended the Board for Foreign Missions and our
foreign missionaries for their aggressive work, and gratefully ac-
knowledged the support received from organizations and individual
Christians in Synod. The Board for Foreign Missions was encour-
aged to make special efforts to meet the extraordinary challenge
from Japan, and the Fiscal Conference was requested to make
special provisions for the additional cost. (Resolution 11.)

Memorial resolutions were passed in memory of Dr. F. Brand,
Mr. Theo. Struckmeyer, and the wife of Dr. O. H. Schmidt, and
copies ordered sent to the bereaved families (T.B., p. 28).

Dr. F. C. Streufert led the convention in a special prayer,
voicing our thanks for the rich blessings experienced in these fields
and asking God to endow us with a new measure of zeal.

The chairman reported the death of Chaplain Karl F. Schleede
of Schenectady, which occurred yesterday, and instructed the Com-