# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S763
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

CONVENTION MINUTES 763

fin repayment for subsidy, was rescinded. The program is to be
fa grant-in-aid program. The question of providing financial -as-
F sistance to professors for purchasing homes is to be studied by
e the Board of Directors and the Board for Higher Education, their
F findings to be submitted to the 1956 convention. Colleges and
; seminaries were directed to conduct commissaries and dormitories
® on a self-supporting basis if that should prove possible. Capital
- investments and major remodeling are to be paid by Synod. No

action on the proposal for a third seminary was taken. The names

tof the teachers’ colleges are to remain. unchanged. For the present
: the final decision on re-establishing a college in the Southeast was
» deferred.

Adjournment by singing “Savior, Breathe an Evening Bless-
ing” and the Apostolic Benediction.

Session 4
June 19, A. M.

In the opening devotions conducted by Dr. Ottomar Krueger
as liturgist, Dr. Arnold Grumm pointed up the importance of
rightly dividing and properly applying Law and Gospel.

The minutes were read and adopted.

Election results: Dr. M. F. Kretzmann, Secretary of Synod,
360 votes; Mr. Walter Schlueter, Treasurer of Synod, 484 votes.

Elected to the Board of Directors: Dr. Oliver Harms, 472 votes,
the Rev. E. T. Bernthal, 334 votes, the Rev. A. H. Oswald, in the
run-off election, 294 votes; Messrs. J. W. Boehne, 389 votes, E. J.
Gallmeyer, 388 votes, T. H. Schlake, 315 votes, Henry Buck,
347 votes.

Dr. J. T. Mueller presented the second installment of his essay
and developed the thought that the true ecumenicity of the Church
consists in holding all the doctrines of Scripture, which alone are
ecumenical doctrines. ;

Synod declined the proposal to set up a commission on Scrip-
tural peace in doctrine and practice. Before proceeding to vote on
the resolutions proposed for Memorial 60, Synod resolved to have
this unprinted memorial presented in printed form to the delegates.
After accepting by a special vote the preamble to the resolution
on the Common Confession, Synod resolved to postpone action on
Part II of the Common Confession.

The resolutions on the sale of the Fort Wayne campus were
presented. They were then moved by the Rev. Oscar Heilman and
seconded by Mr. Albert Hensel.

The following nominations were accepted: Board for Missions
in North and South America as listed in “Today’s Business,”