# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1956_S607
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PUBLICATION MATTERS 607

The New Testament is ready to go to press. Most of the Old
Testament, we are told, also is finished.

Why not go ahead, then? Must we crush such a work when
we need it so desperately? Shall we go on praising Luther while —
we quench his spirit? Haven’t our Christians, who are kings and
priests before God, the privilege, yes, the sacred duty, to produce
a Bible that is sound and in their own language?

This is our request: Let us print this New Testament, invite
the criticism of everyone who can help in order to improve it,
and then offer to print a revision of it at a later date. Let us also
proceed immediately with the production of the Old Testament.

In the name of Jesus, our Savior!

Sr. Jonn’s Lurueran Cuurca, St. JAMEs, MINN.
Board of Elders
WatTeR BECKER Wn. MumMME
Emi WIEDERHOEFT
Frep M. QuiInvEL, Chairman
ArtTHUR DreEvLow, Pastor

ACTION
Concerning this memorial, Committee 8 presented Resolu-
tion 10, which was adopted:

Resolution 10

Wuereas, This memorial has to do with a subject that is being
dealt with by the Advisory Committee on English Bible Versions
of the Board for Parish Education; and

Wuereas, The Houston Convention adopted a resolution that
covers this subject (cf. Proceedings, 1953, p. 574); and

Wuereas, This convention has reiterated the position taken at
Houston (Today’s Business, p. 87); therefore be it

Resolved, That Memorial 709 be referred to the Advisory Com-
mittee on English Bible Versions for disposition.

Report of the “Lutheran Witness” Editorial Board
(Report 706)

After the 1953 convention the Praesidium of Synod and the
faculty of Concordia Seminary (St.L.) jointly reappointed on
the Editorial Board of the Lutheran Witness the same men who
had served during the previous triennium. All of them accepted
the appointment.

The Board has since held four meetings under the chairman-
ship of Rev. Alfred Doerffler, two in 1954 and two in 1955. Many