# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S280
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

280 MISSIONS

of Paris where a new housing project of vast proportions ha
been completed and where there was no other church ne
minister to the spiritual needs of the thousands who had |
live in the new apartment buildings. The Commission also
such a chapel in the refugee center at Uelzen, where eadifi
hundreds of people arrive who have fled from the East Zone’
the West Zone of Germany to escape the tyranny of Commu

“It is the opinion of your Commission that the Lutheran;
Federation has been and is performing a most important task
Commission would recommend that: :

“1. The appropriate officers study the possibility of full;
least advisory, membership in the Lutheran World Federa

#9. Explore avenues by which our Synod can ever m
operate with the Lutheran World Federation in such mat
will involve no violation of our principles in doctrine or pra

Comment: Since the two matters touched upon are
the jurisdiction assigned to our Board by Synod, we don
competent to add our comment to these recommendations;
the “Bad Boll Conferences” (and to a lesser degree the Ly
World Federation) touch the work which our Board is dof
Europe, we hope that in the future the executive secretary:
vited to attend these or similar conferences. If the honorablé-§
specifically assigns one or the other of these matters to the
for European Affairs, we shall certainly be guided in large m@
by the policies which have been established by this comng

XII. Conclusion

“Finally the Commission is unanimous in the view |
Free Churches of Europe shouldbe asked to assume ‘th
sibility for the evangelizing of the unchurched within thei
tive countries and that they should strive to become self
ing at the earliest possible date. Meanwhile, however, -o
should stand by and be prepared to give them moral er
ment, spiritual inspiration, and financial assistance, parti
cases of acute need, especially since their respective econ
still suffering from the devastations of war and since th
of government taxes generally are a great deal heavier t
are in our own more prosperous country, whose churche
and industrial structures have, by the mercies of God,
escaped the destructions of war. Such help should be mad
able most particularly to our brethren who are behind”
Curtain, as long as such help is still possible according to
of the country. “Hy, Harms, D.D. i:

“A. F. Bonz, Secretary
“QO, A. Getseman, S. T.D., Chat

tH