# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S1353
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CONVENTION MINUTES 891

(Committee 13, T. B., pp. 49—50)

Synod ordered the creation of a Department. of Stewardship,
Missionary Education, and Promotion, with the necessary secre-
taries and staff, responsible to the Board of Directors, to carry on
the work falling into these categories, and urged pastors and
congregations to make the fullest use of this department (Reso-
lution 1). The Department of Public Relations was commended
and ordered continued on national and District levels (Resolu-
tion 2). The Board for Public Relations and the synodical Radio
Committee were ordered to co-ordinate their efforts, the former
to find its special province in those aspects of radio which concern
public relations, the latter in the field of radio evangelism (Reso-
lution 3).

(Committee 9, T.B., p. 61)

Synod authorized the publication of a hymnal for children and
instructed the Board for Parish Education to edit such a hymnal in
consultation with the Committee on Hymnology and Liturgics.
The request to publish a pocket edition of the Lutheran Hymnal
was declined.

(Committee 14)

Synod adopted a memorial resolution in memory of the Rev.
Karl Schleede, member of the Armed Services Commission, who
died yesterday while attending the convention, and ordered a copy
to be sent to the bereaved family (Resolution 11).

(Committee 3, T.B., p. 60)

Consideration of the resolution concerning Rom. 16:17-18 was
resumed. An amendment striking out all words after Resolved and
substituting for them a resolution presented from the floor was
moved and seconded. Discussion of the amendment was postponed
until it would be available to the delegates in printed form.

In view of the joint activities in church work carried on by
the National Lutheran Council, which make much of its program
of a unionistic nature, and in view of the possibility of an organic
union developing among the members of the Council, the Com-
mittee recommended that Synod decline to apply for membership
in the National Lutheran Council. The recommendation was moved
and seconded, but no action was taken. (Resolution 5, T. B., p. 48.)

Greetings were received from the General Synod of the Evan-
gelical and Reformed Church.

Election results:

Board of Directors: Pastors E. J. Friedrich,-O. A. Geiseman,
Oliver Harms; Laymen: Messrs. Clarence Amling, John W. Boehne,
Henry Buck, E. J. Gallmeyer, Theo. H. Schlake.