# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S527
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS 527

ers of services of ground breaking, cornerstone laying,
installation, and anniversaries; histories of congrega-
es of church and school buildings. May we remind
sho have in their possession the minutes and records of
#6ns: and conferences that are now defunct to transfer
“yments to the Institute to safeguard against their even-

“hat. adequate facilities have been made available and
tias been increased, we will be in a position to offer even
ice to the Church. The work of the Institute is divided
smajor areas: archives, library, and museum. Each area
historical lore both to the specialist and to the casual

e of its official position as the historical depository of
Institute is ready at all times to assist in ascertaining
acts and data, in tracing trends and developments, and
fag. and stimulating interest in the background, history,
of the Lutheran Church. By way of illustration we point
k by Dr. Walter O. Forster, Zion on the Mississippi,
is recently published by Concordia Publishing House.

ur beautiful museum room, we are prepared to depict
the growth of Synod from a small seedling into a large
‘body. The Waltke Memorial Room serves as an excel-
¢ational facility, where our Synod’s mission program, con-
in turn on the various fields, becomes meaningful and

gations and pastors who wish to publish the history of
church or community have found the Institute a real
feir work. Factual information, both of a biographical
gational nature, is available to the researcher either
ir lending library by written request, or directly in our

f our seminaries and colleges who are preparing
esearch papers have found in the Institute’s collec-
otherwise unobtainable. Bibliographical and other
Lutheranism in America will be cheerfully furnished
orking on such special studies.

‘one of the greatest services the Institute renders is
uarterly, the only Lutheran periodical of its kind in
ough its pages interesting and scholarly articles have
tht to the attention of a wide circle of readers. The
‘how in its twenty-sixth volume and is being edited
C. Repp.

ute’s usefulness to the Church is determined to a
by the financial means placed’ at its disposal. By the