# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1956_S800
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

798 CONVENTION MINUTES

teachers colleges were authorized to study the advisability of
introducing a vicarage year for male students (TB:192, 30).

Election results: elected to the Board for Parish Education:
Rev. Justus P. Kretzmann; Profs. Mark Steege and Harry Coyner;
Messrs. Paul W. Lange, Vernon Koehler, A. R. Brandhorst, Edgar
_ Fritz, John G. Roschke, Rex Becker; to the Board for Missions
to the Blind: Pastors Harry A. Timm, Herbert J. Mueller, T. A.
Weiss; Messrs. Kenneth Kohlmeier, Ernst Berger.

Dr. John S. Bradac, representing the Slovak Church, brought
greetings to our body, in which he invoked the Spirit of God on
our resolutions. He called upon us to be brave and faithful so
that the spirit of Walther and Pieper might prevail in our midst.
He voiced the thanks of his body for the kindness our Synod has
shown in training its pastors and teachers, and for the Christian
fellowship enjoyed in the Synodical Conference. To Dr. Behnken
he expressed the wish of God’s blessing for his office.

The session was closed by singing the third stanza of the hymn
“Now Thank We All Our God,” and with the Apostolic Blessing.

Session 10
June 26, P.M.

The tenth session was opened with a memorial service in mem-
ory of those brethren who had been called home in the preceding
triennium., On the basis of Dan.12:13 Rev. A. H. Werfelmann,
President of the Northern Illinois District, set forth that as God
granted to Daniel a time of quiet retirement from his turbulent
ministry, in which to contemplate the wisdom of God and the
promise of the Savior to come, which had been revealed to him,
so also can men in retirement personalize what in their ministry
they were permitted to expound. By the work of Jesus, death,
which is in itself destructive, becomes a rest. To that rest Daniel
was dismissed, assured of the certainty that at the end of days he
would stand at the right hand of God and hear the citation, “Well
done, thou good and faithful servant.” In the same way we are
assured of the eventual reunion of body and soul. That is the com-
fort we have as we remember those who are no longer with us,
whether we be in active service or in retirement. We look forward
to reunion with our loved ones and to union with the saints at the
throne of the Lamb.

The minutes were read and were adopted after three sentences
had been deleted.

The following slates were adopted: Student Service Commis-
sion, with the addition of the name of Mr. Walter H. Gross; Board
of Directors of Concordia Publishing House; Boards of Control for