# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S1374
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914 CONVENTION MINUTES

page 307, was accepted (Resolution 33). On motion of Rev. Karl
Hofmann, seconded by Wm. J. Harder, Synod authorized the Board
of Directors in consultation with the Praesidium and the standing
Committee on Constitutional Matters to amend the By-Laws to
make them conform to the projected revised charter (T.B., p. 159,
Resolution 35). Unprinted Memorial 79 was rejected. The name
of Concordia College, Portland, Oreg., was ratified (page 160,
Resolution 38). The change in By-Laws Section 6.115 proposed
in Today’s Business, page 160, was ratified (Resolution 39). The
request of Unprinted Memorial 64 was denied and complainants
referred to Handbook 5.81 (T. B., p. 188, Resolution 40). The change
proposed in the Constitution Article X, B, 2, found in Today’s
Business, page 188, was adopted on motion of Rev. Karl Hofmann
and Mr. Otto G. Liebenow (page 188, Resolution 42). The name
“Northwest District of The Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod”
was ratified. Memorial 511 (Rights of Self-Ruling Congregations)
was rejected. Resolution 46 required no action. Change in the
Handbook 2.95, as proposed in Today’s Business, page 193, was

authorized. .
(Committee 8)

The Lutheran Witness, Der Lutheraner, Theological Monthly,
Lutheran Education, were ordered to continue functioning as at
present (T.B., p. 137, Resolution 13). Other suggestions of Memo-
rial 711 were not entertained. Synod resolved to mail its official
Proceedings, Statistical Yearbook, and Book of Reports and Memo-
rials to all active and retired pastors and teachers, and amended
Section 11.23f of the Handbook to read‘as proposed in Today’s
Business, page 138. The essays presented by Prof. M. Franzmann
and Dr. M. Walker were ordered sent to all lay delegates of this
convention and to all pastors and teachers in Synod. The Board
for Parish Education was asked to develop these essays into a

course of Bible study.
(Committee 14)

The Emergency Planning Council was authorized to continue
functioning in the resettlement of displaced persons and refugees
in Europe, but other phases of European work were placed under
the jurisdiction of the Board for European Affairs (T.B., p. 102,
Resolution 9). Relative to Memorial 1001, the position of the
previous convention was reaffirmed. The Secretary of Synod was
instructed to send a copy of Resolution 7 to the Synodical Confer-
ence Convention (faithful reporting of military addresses). The
invitation of the Minnesota District to hold the 1956 convention
at St.Paul was adopted. Gratefully acknowledged were the
leadership of Dr. Behnken, the services of the Vice-Presidents, the
Secretary, his assistant, the Treasurer of Synod, members of boards