# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S1362
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

CONVENTION MINUTES

(Committee 16, T. B., p. 69, Memorials 501, 507—510)

The interpretation of the word “arrange” of Section 3.43 given
in Memorial 501 and further explained as meaning “cannot enter
a congregation without its consent” was adopted and accepted as
satisfying Unprinted Memorial 7 of the Akron, Colo., conference
of October 11-13, 1949 (Resolution 12). The action of Synod’s
officials in defining the status of our teachers as “ministers of
religion not ordained” was approved; a committee was appointed
to review and study the entire question and report to the next
convention (Resolution 10, T. B., p. 68).

The sessions were closed by singing Hymn 3, repeating Luther’s
evening prayer and the Lord’s Prayer.

Session 14
June 29, A.M.

The devotional exercises with which the fourteenth session
was opened were conducted by Vice-President-elect A. H. Grumm,
who called on the convention to give themselves wholly to Christ,
whereupon the program of expansion which had been adopted
would go over self-evidently. The minutes were then read and
adopted. Dr. Walker presented the third installment of his essay,
on Rev. 3:14-22, the Letter to the Church at Laodicea.

Committee 14 made a special report disavowing for themselves
and the Synodical Press Committee any responsibility for the item
in this morning’s paper, concerning Unprinted Memorial 1 (Reso-

lution 13).
) (Committee 1, T. B., p. 155)

The Board for Higher Education was. authorized to invite the
District Student Aid officers to a conference to deliberate on ways
and means of adjusting the Student Aid program to present-day
conditions. Transportation is to be defrayed by the Districts, room
and board by the Board for Higher Education (Resolution 38).
Synod resolved to establish a scholarship fund of $10,000 to be
accumulated by inviting the Districts to contribute from $250
to $500 and to be administered by the Board for Higher Education
to assist qualified foreign students, the sons and daughters of our
foreign missionaries, and other qualified persons to pursue such
graduate studies as will benefit the Church in its educational
program (Resolution 39). The Board for Higher Education was
authorized to create up to five additional professorships at River
Forest and Seward (T.B., p. 156, Resolutions 40, 41). The Board
for Higher Education in consultation with the teachers’ colleges
is to decide on the requirements for a Lutheran teacher’s diploma
(Resolution 42). Gratefully acknowledging the Southern Nebraska
District’s interest in secondary education, Synod referred the ques-