# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S1368
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908 CONVENTION MINUTES

the amendment repudiate the Brief Statement?” No one arose in
answer. After an hour and a half discussion was broken off.

The Rev. Paul Koch was given the privilege of making a state-
ment relative to his remarks about Dr. E. J. Friedrich, as Synod
had requested. Since the statement consisted largely of questions,
it was ruled out of order by the Chair, which ruling was upheld

by the convention. ;
(Committee 12, T.B., p- 172)

The committee was given permission to substitute another
motion for the one that had been offered previously. Thereupon
Synod resolved to increase the contributions of employers to the
synodical Pension Fund by 1 per cent, beginning January 1, 195],
and by an additional 1 per cent for each of the three successive
years, the workers’ contribution remaining at 4 per cent. No deduc-
tions from the special benefits accruing to workers already members
of the fund shall be made if their employers fail to increase their
rates of contribution. At the next convention the Board of Support
and Pensions is to make such recommendations in this matter as
may be deemed. advisable. (Resolution 17.)

(Committee 5, p. 128b, Resolutions 8—12)

The Board for Higher Education was encouraged to include at
least one course on youth work at our seminaries and teachers’
colleges. Synod expressed appreciation to Concordia Seminary,
St. Louis, for establishing its youth course and the Walther League
for financing an academic fellowship in youth work. Appropriations
for the Board for Young People’s Work shall in future follow Parish
Education in financial statements. The granting of $10,000 per
annum to the Board for Young People’s Work was authorized.
With gratitude to God and commendation to the Student Service
Commission, Synod accepted the report of the Commission. The
Board for Parish Education was instructed to include the problem
of suffusing the campuses with the dynamics of religion in its
present study of the separation of Church and State.

The session was adjourned by singing Hymn 4, repeating Lu-
ther’s evening prayer, and receiving the Apostolic Benediction.

Session 17
June 30, A. M.

Devotions were conducted by the Rev. H. W. Bartels. The
minutes were read and corrected and then adopted.

(Committee 5, Resolutions 13—18)

The resolutions of Committee 5 urging co-operation in the
census of the Student Service Commission, using college graduates