# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S1354
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892 CONVENTION MINUTES

Boards of Control: Concordia College, St.Paul, Minn.: Rey.
Herman Winter; Messrs. Herbert Kuehn, Henry Neils, Charles
Thoele.

St. Paul’s College, Concordia, Mo.: Rev. Oscar Tiemann;
Messrs. Edwin Pape, Alfred Schreiner, O. L. Viets.

Concordia College, Portland, Oreg.: Rev. Carl F. Nitz; Messrs.
Victor Brandt, A. H. Raasch, George Udy.

Slates were approved for the Boards of Control of the institu-
tions at Fort Wayne, Buenos Aires, Bronxville, Porto Alegre, Oak-
land, and Austin.

Adjournment with the votum.

Session 9
June 27, A.M.
The devotional exercises were conducted by the Rev. O. R.
Harms.
The minutes of the preceding meeting were then read and
adopted.

The convention joined the chairman in expressions of sympathy
to the Rev. H. W. Gockel, whose wife is undergoing a serious
operation. Dr. Martin Walker then presented his essay on Rev.
3:1-6, the Letter to the Congregation at Sardis.

(Committee 4, T.B., p. 83f.)

An overview of the work of the Board for Parish Education
was given by Dr. Paul Bretscher, who dwelt on the vast scope
into which this work had developed on parish and inter-parish
levels. This report was then supplemented by the Executive Secre-
tary of the Board, Mr. Arthur Miller, who gave figures of the
various educational activities carried on in our parishes. Recog-
nizing the great value of a nursery department as an agency in
Christian training of children and enrolling Sunday school pupils,
Synod urged congregations to introduce nursery departments
wherever feasible. Congregations were urged to intensify the
program of missionary education in the Sunday school, to provide
adequate facilities for Sunday schools and other part-time agencies,
to provide sufficient weekly Bible classes for the different age
groups. With thanks to God the faithful and effective alertness,
guidance, and assistance of the Board for Parish Education was
acknowledged. Synod commended leaders and communities who
had set up Lutheran Bible Institutes and encouraged the establish-
ment of such institutes wherever possible, placing the establish-
ment and direction of these institutes under the District Boards for

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Parish Education in consultation with the synodical Board for
Parish Education. All congregations were urged to exploit fully
various agencies of Christian Education and to provide the maxi-
mum of time for Christian education. The congregations were
encouraged to continue their programs of released-time classes
and to introduce such classes wherever it was legally possible.
(Resolutions 1—8.)

(Committee 3, T.B., pp. 60, 109)

The amendment to Resolution 7 of Committee 3 (Rom. 16:
17-18), which had been moved and seconded, was placed before
the convention. A request for division limiting the debate suc-
cessively to the expression “strike the words after whereas,” and
then to the words “substitute the resolution presented from the
floor,” was lost. Eventually the motion and the amendment were
recommitted by the Chair with the unanimous consent of the
convention.

Election results:

Boards of Control: Villa Ballester: Rev. J. P. Horn; Messrs. F.
Ahnert, M. Donner, Ed. Ristau.

Bronxville: Rev. L. S. Wagner; Messrs. James Kemp, Chas.
Nehring, L. H. W. Rabe.

Porto Alegre: Rev. George Muller; Messrs. S. Lehenbauer,
A. Nickel, Hugo Wagner.

Fort Wayne: Rev. Edgar P. Schmidt; Messrs. Robert Berning,
Clarence Brenner, Robert Moellering.

Milwaukee: Rev. Felix Kretzschmar; Messrs. Eric Erdmann, Jr.,
Ed. Pritzlaff, John Sichling. ;

Austin: Rev. W. E. Meyer; Messrs. R. Leschber, Paul Nerger,
Albert Schulz.

Adjournment with the ‘table prayer.

Session 10
June 27, P.M.

The devotions in the form of a memorial service in memory
of the workers in the Kingdom who had passed on to their eternal
reward in the preceding triennium was conducted by the Rev. E. L.
Roschke. The minutes were then read and approved. The Chair
welcomed to the ‘convention Dr. S. C. Ylvisaker, Vice-President
of the Synodical: Conference.

The special committee re protest against the candidacy of Dr. E.
J. Friedrich reported. Holding that the protest against the candi-
dacy of Dr. E. J. Friedrich for the office of Vice-President in our
Church had been made in a very irregular manner and could have

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