# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S775
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CONVENTION MINUTES

Session 10
June 23, P.M.

The opening devotional services took the form of a memorial

rvice in which the Rev. M. H. Holls, President of the Southern
trict, addressed the Convention on Heb. 11:13. In remembering
Four departed fellow workers in Christ we follow the example of
tthe holy writer. We remember these departed brethren because
they followed faithfully in the footsteps of the Master and did the
work of the Master in a world where ungodliness runs riot, where
error is propagated and insidiously creeps in even where the
truth is preached. They leave behind for us the message that we
Pare still on earth because God’s work must still be done and we are
B here to do it. Hence let us speak as the oracles of God, work while
Rit is day together with our synodical brethren, and, in correcting
f what is wrong, be careful not to destroy what-is good. Such cor-
7 rection can most safely be made when we use the established rules
F and regulations. Only faithfulness in all things will at last bring
fF us the crown now worn by our departed brethren.
F Synod placed in nomination the names for Boards of Control
E for all of our colleges in North and South America as set forth
S in “Today’s Business,” pages 160 to 171, except that to the list for
: the Minnesota Concordia there was added the name of the Rev.
.. Reuben Langhans (Eng. Dist.) and to the Bronxville Concordia the
name of the Rev. Herman Meier, Lockport, N. Y. The Committee
on Nominations was discharged.

Election returns for Board for Parish Education: Dr. Paul M.
Bretscher, 347 votes, the Rev. C. T. Spitz, 294 votes, Dr. Martin
Scharlemann, 264 votes; Teachers Paul Lange, 370 votes, A. R.
Brandhorst, 247 votes, Herman H. Koehler, 299 votes; Messrs.
Robert E. Steinmeyer, 328 votes, Fred Kuhlman, 252 votes, Carl
Dauten, 270 votes.

Board for Young People’s Work: Dr. Clarence Peters, 332
votes, Dr. L. W. Spitz, 299 votes; Teachers H. C. Gruber, 319 votes,
L. Ramming, 276 votes; Mr. Gilbert Muchow, 267 votes.

Student Service Commission: the Rev. Richard Jesse, 310 votes,
Prof. E. M. Plass, 273 votes; Mr. W. H. Gross, 319 votes.

Board of Appeals: Profs. Paul F. Koehneke, 385 votes, Erwin
Schnedler, 299 votes; the Rev. Messrs. H. J. Bouman, 288 votes,
Paul Koenig, 338 votes, Wm. F. Krueger, 274 votes, Erwin Kurth,
309 votes; Teachers Leonard Dierker, 327 votes, Henry Felten,
306. votes; Messrs. Eugene Wengert, 309 votes, John Luecke, 270
votes, Otto Scheimann, 297 votes. ,

Board for Support and Pension: the Rev. Messrs. Oscar Fed-
der, 323 votes, Carl Pfotenhauer, 312 votes, Julius Acker, 289 votes;