# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S1178
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Report of Commi
ttee “To Study the N
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(Memorial 624) C Matters

resolutions:

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cil lists among it Constitution of the National Lutheran
church work, such Binposes and objectives joint activities
i 3S missions, educati in
(Article III, g) despite a lack of doctrinal zg ang student Service
ent...

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in which our Church
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be it therefore ay Participate, as it has done in the past;

“Resolved, Tha
» +nat we express :
operate wi P our continued willj
with the National Lutheran Council where to co-
er it can be

INTERSYNODICAL AND DOCTRINAL ‘MATTERS 557
t we express our Synod’s willingness and eagerness to
Bicrate with the National Lutheran Church wherever it can
Fne without compromising Scriptural principles.

L. Meyer, Secretary to the Committee

ACTION
pon recommendation of Committee 3 Synod resolved:

; Resolution 1 ;

4No. 624 is the report of a committee appointed by the President
eep the question of membership by The Lutheran Church —
ouri Synod in the National Lutheran Council under survey.
President’s committee refers to Synod’s resolution in this
atter at its Milwaukee Convention in 1950 and states “that the
tors which obtained at the time of the 1950 Milwaukee Con-

tion and which persuaded the Convention to adopt the above

lution are unchanged.”
B..,, Recommendation of Committee 3:

Wuereas, The conditions which prompted Synod’s action with
respect to membership in the National Lutheran Council at its
“convention in Milwaukee remain unchanged; be it
<<". Resolved, That Synod’s resolution of 1950, in which Synod
-ideclined to apply for membership in the National Lutheran Coun-

cil; but expressed its willingness to co-operate with the National
“Lutheran Council wherever it can be done without compromising
Scriptural principles, remain in force during the coming triennium.

Lutheran World Federation
(Memorial 625)

Wuereas, The Executive Committee of the Lutheran World
Federation has issued an invitation to The Lutheran Church — Mis-
souri Synod ‘to accept the privileges and responsibilities of mem-
bership in the Lutheran World Federation; and

Wuereas, The objectives of. the Lutheran World Federation
require study before The Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod can
‘commit itself to an application for membership; and ;

Waenreas, Other types of permanent association with the Lu-
theran World Federation (e. g., consultative membership, etc.) have
been ruled out, for all practical purposes, by the Executive Com-
mittee of the Lutheran World Federation in order to protect the

distinctively Lutheran character of the Lutheran World Federa-
tion; and ;
Wuereas, Certain programs (e.g., resettlement of refugees,