# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S766
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

766 CONVENTION MINUTES

Session 6
June 20, A.M.

The sixth session was opened with devotional exercises,
Rev. C. F. Baase, President of the Alberta and British Columbia

a Savior and Redeemer and His message as a new law insteaq
of a message of forgiveness is to turn the life-creating Gospel into
a savor of death to the destruction of souls.

Greetings were presented from the Lutheran Laymen’s League.
The minutes were read and adopted.

In his essay Dr. J. T. Mueller developed the following truth:
There is an invisible spiritual fellowship in Christ which unites

take every opportunity to give an answer for our faith in meeknesgs
and the fear of God. ,

After hearing from the Rev. Lambert Mehl a survey of the
dangers threatening young people today, and an Overview of
Synod’s youth work from Dr. Clarence Peters, Synod acknowl-
edged the blessings which have come about through the program

of sharing the Word of God and disseminating its Messenger in
foreign schools and libraries, Greetings were ordered extended

vention. The League was commended for its co-operation with
Synod’s Board for Young People’s Work and urged to continue
such co-operation, ;

Faculties at our seminaries and teachers’ colleges were en-
couraged to introduce courses and workshops in youth work.
Providing scholarships to Lutheran Service Volunteer schools was

‘People’s Work and the Walther League were encouraged to expand
the program of leadership training, to which Synod promised ade-
quate support. The Christian Youth Emergency Action Program
is to be expanded.