# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1956_S806
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

804 CONVENTION MINUTES

mons, and by study of the Lutheran Confessions. This watching
over doctrine includes doctrinal discipline. Toleration of error is
not a charity. True love for our fellow men requires that we wean
them away from error. The bond of peace in which we are to keep
the unity of the Spirit is the love of God and man which can be
worked only by the truth of God’s revelation and the Sacraments.

Upon recommendation of Committee 6, Synod adopted the
changes in the Constitution presented in Today’s Business on
pp. 170—172.

On recommendation of Committee 7, Synod commended the
Commission on Fraternal Organizations for its faithfulness and ini-
tiative and especially for successfully negotiating certain essential
changes in the Constitution and Handbook of the Boy Scouts of
America. One negative vote was heard, which was subsequently
explained as due to adverse personal experience with an individual
Cub Scout Troop (TB:200, 7).

Resolutions 2 and 4 (TB:200—201) were re-committed. The
regulations concerning Fraternal Organizations were ordered
transferred to a more appropriate section than “Miscellaneous”
(TB:200—201, 3).

Synod adopted the following slates: For Boards of Control:

Edmonton, with the addition of the names of Teacher W. Kupsch,
Messrs. Adolph Laechle and John W. Unterschultz (TB:234—235) ;
Villa Ballester, Argentina (TB:235); Austin (TB:235—236); Sew-
ard, with the amendment that the Nominating Committee be per-
mitted to indicate on the ballot the names of candidates from
Seward County (TB:236—237).

The results of the election were the following: Concordia Sem-
inary, St. Louis, Rev. George A. Loose, Messrs. Charles S. Lutt-
man, Theodore Hanser, August E. Bekemeyer; River Forest,
Teacher Walter H. Hartkopf, Messrs. Lawrence Forster and Edgar
M. Elbert; St.Paul, Minn., Teacher Ed. Zielske, Messrs. Walter
Schmalz and O. Harold Swanson; Board for Visual Education,
Pastors Karl Maier and Herman Bielenberg, Prof. C. T. Brandhorst,
Teacher Arthur Amt, Messrs. T. G. Eggers, E. Tieman, and Elmer
Wangerin; Board for Young People’s Work, Rev. Clarence Peters,
Prof. W. Hoyer, Teachers Homer Gruber, John Fischer, and Mr. E.
W. Schroeter.

At the suggestion of Committee 2, Dr. Karl Kurth, Executive
Secretary of the Synodical Conference Mission Board, spoke briefly
on the opportunities in the Negro mission fields of America and
Nigeria. He pointed out the necessity of developing schools that
train Negro pastors. Synod thereupon voiced its praise of God for