# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S1176
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552° INTERS
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DOCTRINAL MA
TTERS

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learn all of the facts, May a and that all of yo

you the spiritual Strength to do His will

Joun Brennen, President
ACTION

Upon Trecomm
endation of Comm:
mmittee 3 Synod
esolved, with

Seven negative votes:

Resolution 14

Memorial 610
ep oncerning Join .
ur Committee proceeded on ih Prayer is

intersynodical to Synod’s positio i
aginaw C conferences as expressed ; mon Joint Prayer at
: Onvention (P. in the Proceedings of the

roceedings, p, 52
on (Proceedings, p 517) ye reaffirm

8 resolution:

Since the re
quest in
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ion that references are

Bests the followin

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Lutheran Witness” Statement
(Unprintedg Memoriai 35)
mmended, and Synod resolved:

INTERSYNODICAL AND DOCTRINAL MATTERS 553

Resolution 3

Inprinted Memorial 35 takes exception to a statement in the
an Witness of March 31, 1953, page 9 (109). The statement
“A sovereign congregation, which has voluntarily joined
. will also voluntarily abide by the regulations of Synod.”
F. WHEREAS, Committee 3 finds the above statement wholly cor-
E+.and in accord with the principles of Christian love by which
vidual Christians and Christian congregations should be guided
ir relationship to Synod; be it therefore
Resolved, That Synod declare its agreement with the statement
uestion and decline to take any further action in this matter.

Reconsider Our. Answer to Questions
of the Wisconsin Synod
(Memorial 610, 3)
(Quoted above)
*! Committee 3 submitted the following resolution, which was
i

adopted:

se Resolution 18

5 1, In 1949 the Wisconsin Synod addressed a letter to our Synod
tn which it asked for an answer to certain questions on matters
“Sf doctrine and practice. (Missouri Synod Proceedings 1950,
pp. 666, 667.)
2. Upon instruction of the 1950 convention the Praesidium of
our Synod answered the questions put to our Synod in the letter

. of the Wisconsin Synod. (Missouri Synod Proceedings 1950, p. 669,
Resolution 13.) :

3. At its convention in 1951. the Wisconsin Synod declared the
answers of our Praesidium to be unsatisfactory. (Wisconsin Synod
Proceedings, 1951, p. 148.)

4. In 1952 the Wisconsin Synod appealed this matter to the
Synodical Conference, whereupon, the Synodical Conference passed
a resolution urging “the Missouri Synod to take the steps necessary
to bring about a God-pleasing disposition” of these matters. (Pro-
ceedings of the Synodical Conference, 1952, p.157, II; p. 160.)
. 5. The Wisconsin Synod now appeals to this convention to
“reconsider the reply” of our Praesidium. (Memorial 610.3, Reports

and Memorials, 1953.) ;
6. Your Committee has studied
a) the questions addressed to our Synod;
b) the reply of our Praesidium to these questions;
c) the action of the Wisconsin Synod at its 1951 convention; and

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