# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1956_S0
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

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words: “Keep the records straight.” I have tried to do this in all
simplicity and humility. At the same time I appreciate the con-
fidence you have placed in me in asking me to continue as a member
of the Board of Directors, without expecting me to attend to the
exacting duties of Secretary of the Board. After serving for fifty-
five years in the holy ministry I can no longer classify as a young
man, and I am happy that you have chosen a younger but also
experienced man to be my successor.

May I add that my deepest concern as well as my hope and
prayer is that our beloved Synod, of whose clergy I have been
a member for more than half the years of its existence, may always
hold fast the priceless heritage of the purity of doctrine which
was Missouri’s only source of strength and which made our Synod
an influence for good among the church bodies of the world. All
this will be lost forever unless we keep in mind that the Lord
of the church laid down the fundamental law of His kingdom when
He said: “One is your Master, even Christ; and ye all are breth-
ren” (Matt. 23:8), and unless we always rally around Him and
say with Peter, with a heart full of love: “Lord, to whom shall
we go? Thou hast the words of eternal life; and we believe and

-are sure that Thou art that Christ, the Son of the living God.”

(John 6:68, 69.) M. F. Kretzmann, Secretary

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