# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1956_S801
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

CONVENTION MINUTES 799

River Forest, with the addition of the names of Teacher Walter
Hartkopf and Mr. Lawrence Forster; of Milwaukee; of St. Paul,
with the addition of the names of Messrs. O. Harold Swanson and
Walter Schmalz; of Concordia, with the addition of the names of
Messrs. O. L. Viets and Alfred Schreiner; of Bronxville; of Winfield,
with the addition of the name of Mr. Dean Wells; of Portland and
of Oakland.

After a film showing the work of Lutheran Television Produc-
tions and the report that 2,000,000 pieces of mail had been received
and that there was prospect of an eventual 32,000,000 television
homes, Synod resolved to urge the further development of the
Telemission aspects of “This Is the Life” program, and commended
the committee for its service. Committee 12 was thereupon dis-
missed (TB:145, 7).

Committee 13 on Race Relations presented its resolutions, to
which an amendment was offered, whereupon the matter was re-
committed (TB:195, 16).

Under the auspices of Committee 2 the Board for Missions to
the Deaf and to the Blind gave a demonstration of the work car-
ried on.

On recommendation of Committee 3, Synod resolved that there
be rejected any and every interpretation of documents approved by
Synod if such interpretation is not in agreement with Holy Scrip-
ture, the Lutheran Confessions, and the Brief Statement. A nega-
tive vote was cast, but was explained as not being a vote against
the substance of the resolution (TB:174, 16). The theological fac-
ulties were requested to furnish comprehensive studies clarifying
our position on fellowship, prayer fellowship, and religious union-
ism to the members of Synod, at least one year before the conven-
tion of 1959 (TB:174, 17). In reporting on the work of the Advisory
Committee on Doctrine and Practice relative to Dr. Wm. Arndt’s
essay before the conventions of the Southern California and the
California-Nevada Districts, Committee 3 recommended commen-
dation of the work of the Advisory Committee and the approval
of its 1956 revised report with the understanding that the judgments
expressed regarding any points of doctrine of the American Lu-
theran Church are made on the basis of the declarations of the
Commissioners of the American Lutheran Church. The recom-
mendation was moved and seconded. On inquiry from the floor
the chairman of Committee 3 stated that the term “declarations of
the Commissioners of the American Lutheran Church” meant the
declarations as they appear in the ACDP report. No action was
taken on these recommendations (TB:187, 7).