# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1956_S523
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INTERSYNODICAL AND DOCTRINAL MATTERS 523

Resolution 5
Be it
; i Resolved, That only such as are in fellowship with us be listed
8 i on our rosters in the pages of the Lutheran Annual.

Synod’s Institutions Not to Be Used
at _by Religious Groups Not in Fellowship with Synod
e - (Memorial 613)

We ask Synod to instruct the responsible officers of its insti-
tutions that Synod’s properties are not to be opened to the use
of religious groups not in fellowship with us for their conventions
or other religious activities. The request is made because’ instances
of such use have arisen.

Trinity Ev. LurHeraN Cuurcu, Oak Park, ILL.
E. L. Krert, Secretary

ACTION

Synod resolved, on recommendation of Committee 3:

Resolution 6
Wuenreas, The several Boards of Control of our institutions. are
fully responsible to Synod in these matters and are expected to
deal with these situations with due caution; therefore be it |.

Pr het ee OD

Resolved, That no action be taken by Synod.

_ A Request for a Correction of District Essay
and the Rejection of the Presidency’s Report of the Advisory
Committee on Doctrine and Practice as Issued on August 15, 1951,

and as Revised on February 23, 1956

’ In 1949 the conventions of the Southern California and of the
California and Nevada Districts of Synod adopted an essay in
which opinions are expressed on the false teachings of the Amer-
ican Lutheran Church on a visible side of the church, on the Anti-
christ, on a universal conversion of the Jewish nation “according
to the flesh, and on an expected separate resurrection of the
martyrs. These teachings of the ALC have always been rejected
in our midst. (See Brief Statement, Pars. 42—45; Proceedings,
1938 convention, p. 229.)

-..However, the essay in question, though it expresses opinion
on these ALC teachings, does not reject. these.teachings, but instead
contends that these ALC teachings are doctrinally unobjectionable
and are neither. unscriptural nor false. (See respective paragraphs