# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1956_S808
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806 CONVENTION MINUTES

July 1956 (TB:74,8). The recommendations governing the pay-
ments of pensions and death benefits to the workers in Argentina
and Brazil as set forth in Today’s Business, p.110, were adopted.
Synod expressed its heartfelt commendation to the officials of the
Board of Support and Pensions (7TB:111,10). Committee 10 was
dismissed.

On recommendation of Committee 1, the Visitors of the Dis-
tricts were directed to consider the amalgamation of small, self-
sustaining parishes (TB:164, 23). The change in the Handbook
proposed on page 193 of Today’s Business was adopted (TB: 193, 32).
To meet the signal blessings showered on our elementary schools,
Synod resolved to enroll as many qualified men students as pos-
sible in its teacher-training program, and urged congregations to
hold their teachers by improving salary, living, and working con-
ditions. The policy of obtaining male teachers by training or
colloquy is to be continued (TB:210, 34). The professorships re-
quested in the various memorials were authorized (TB:191, 28).
The principle and the priorities presented by the Board for Higher
Education in the Book of Memorials, pp. 178—180, were adopted,
the Board of Directors being authorized to make any necessary
adjustments (TB:193, 33). The change in the Handbook proposed
on page 164 of Today’s Business was adopted. The Board for
Higher Education was authorized to make a thorough study of the
requests for additional educational institutions with all their impli-
cations, and the Board of Directors was authorized to acquire
potential sites. The amendment to include the College of Presi-
dents in the last directive was lost (TB:164—165, 25).

On recommendation of Committee 11, the long-range planning
program presented in Today’s Business, pp. 183—-184, was unani-
mously adopted (TB:183—184, 8).

Committee 3 was given the floor. The motion to reconsider the
item on page 174 on “Misinterpretation of Doctrinal Documents”
was lost (TB:174, 16). The resolutions governing the correction
of a District essay, found on page 187, received long discussion. The
proposal to add as Resolution c, that Synod reject interpretations
of the essay in conflict with Scripture, the Confessions, and the
Brief Statement, was lost, four or five affirmative votes being noted.
Permission was granted to offer a substitute motion for lines
17 to 21. However, the substitute motion was lost, ten ayes being
counted. Thereupon the resolutions presented by the Committee
were adopted, eight votes being cast in the negative (TB:187, 7).

On recommendation of Committee 13, Synod authorized the
observation of a Centennial year of formal training for the ministry
of teaching in its midst (TB:116, 9). Synod resolved to petition the
Executive and Legislative branches of our. Government to abolish