# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S768
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

768 CONVENTION MINUTES

The Nominations Committee placed in nomination for B 7
for Parish Education the names listed on pages 85 and 86; for

Board for Young People’s Work the names listed on Pages gg

and 87; for Student Service Commission the names listed on
and 89; for the Board of Directors of Concordia Publishing ‘House

names of Mr. Otto F. Stahlke (Mich.) and Dr. Ernest Tieman
(Tex.).

In the morning session on June 18 Synod expressed its appre-
ciation to the organizations and individuals who had assisted in
making contacts with the unchurched brought to our attention
through the Television Program “This Is the Life” and urged
pastors and congregations to make such contacts immediately
upon receiving notice.

Adjournment with the hymn “I Love Thy Kingdom, Lord”
and the votum. ,

Session 7
June 22, A.M.

The seventh session was opened with devotional exercises in
which the Rev. L. W. Koehler, President of the Manitoba and
Saskatchewan District, served as liturgist. The Rev. Carl H. Ben-
sene, President of the Northwest District, in his meditation pointed
out that it is the solemn duty of the Church to proclaim the Law
in all its severity so that unregenerate and regenerate sinners be
convinced in their consciences of their guilt; however, when they
cry in their despair “What must I do to be saved?” the Church has
the blessed privilege to proclaim the full Sweetness of the Gospel,
which assures the sinner of his pardon in Christ’s blood and his
righteousness in Christ's merit.

The minutes were read and adopted with the following cor-
rections: the Rev. Elmer E. Witt, to the Rev. Elmer N. Witt;

pointed out in the fourth paragraph of the minutes was corrected
by transposing the phrase “from the Rev. Lambert Mehl” to before
“A survey of the dangers threatening young people today.”

The following corrections in the number of votes: Board for
Missions in North and South America: the Rev. H. Krieger, 238
votes; Board for Missions to the Blind: the Rev. G. Brueggemann,
251 votes. ‘

In the fourth installment of his essay Dr. J: T. Mueller earn-