# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1956_S551
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INTERSYNODICAL AND DOCTRINAL MATTERS 551

Resolved, That the College of Presidents examine this problem
of liturgical practices for the purpose of providing for “the largest
possible uniformity” (Synodical Constitution, Article III, 5); and
be it further

Resolved, That our District and synodical officials be instructed
to deal vigorously with offenses arising in the area of liturgical
practices.

Complaints Against Statements in the “Seminarian,”
in “The Presence,” the “American Lutheran,”
and in “Una Sancta”

ACTION
Committee 3 reacted to pertinent statements in Memorial 614
and to Unprinted Memorial 18, submitted by the First Evangelical
Lutheran Church of Hanna, Ind., by submitting Resolution 19,
which was unanimously adopted:

Resolution 19

Wuereas, Complaints against statements in the Seminarian,
in The Presence, the American Lutheran, and in Una Sancta have
been presented; and

Wuereas, It has been the consistent principle and policy of
Synod, in accordance with the Confessions, to expose and dis-
tinctly to reprove “all unlawful, doubtful, suspicious, and con-
demned doctrines, wherever and in whatever books they may be
found, and whoever may have written them, or even now may be
disposed to defend them . . . so that everyone may be faithfully
warned against the errors which are spread here and there in the
writings of some theologians, and no one be misled in this matter
by the reputation (authority) of any man” (The Formula of
Concord, Triglotta, page 857); and

Wuereas, According to information received, most of the issues
to which these memorials make reference have already been
adequately and Scripturally dealt with by the responsible parties
of Synod and hence call for no action on the part of this Convention;
nevertheless in the interest of greater clarity concerning the points
in question; be it

Resolved, (a) That the joint theological faculties of Synod
provide appropriate studies on the following topics mentioned in
Unprinted Memorial 18, “The Moment of the Real Presence in the
Lord’s Supper” and “Intercessory Prayers for the Benefit of the
Souls of the Dead”; and be it further

Resolved, (b) That we recommend that these studies be pub-
lished in the Concordia Theological Monthly. ;

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