# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1956_S809
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

CONVENTION MINUTES 807

the present compulsory attendance of military personnel at divine
services and to afford an opportunity for each denomination at its
own expense to provide spiritual care for its members wherever
this is not being done. The amendment to add to the first resolution
the words “not of their own denomination” was lost. Likewise was
lost a motion to recommit the matter (TB:197, 18). Since research
projects completed under the direction of the Committee for
Scholarly Research have filled real needs, Synod resolved to have
the work of the Committee continued, and encouraged its mem-
bers to call attention to promising research projects and also
to make use of the materials thus provided (TB:197, 19).

The following election results were reported: Board of Direc-
tors, Concordia Publishing House, Rev. Kenneth R. Hoffmann,
Teacher Theodore Gassner, Messrs. Elmer Kraemer, William A.
Lahrman; Student Service Commission, Pastors Armin C. Oldsen,
Richard Jesse, and Mr. Walter H. Gross; Boards of Control: Con-
cordia Seminary, Springfield, Messrs. John C. Rodenburg, Edwin
Kuhlmann; Villa Ballester, Argentina, Messrs. E. Weigandt and
L. Steppat; Milwaukee, Teacher Wm. Ahlbrand and Messrs. Eric
Erdmann and John Boehlke; Bronxville, Teacher Herman Miller
and Messrs. Fred Schurmann and E. J. Echtenkamp; Concordia,
Mo., Teacher Herman Wentzel and Messrs. Willard Stuenkel and
Hugo Dierker; Oakland, Teacher Ludwig C. Janzow and Messrs.
Herbert Lembke and Elmer Ohlendorf; Winfield, Teacher A. Kirch-
hoff and Messrs. Herbert Meyer and Walter Wulf; Portland,
Teacher Arthur Schoennauer and Messrs. Edgar Maier and George
W. Udy; Edmonton, Teacher W. Kupsch, by acclamation in Ses-
sion 12 when the nominations were presented, and by ballot,
Messrs. John Unterschultz and Robert Tegler.

The session closed with the Lord’s Prayer and the Votum.

Session 14
June 28, A.M.

The fourteenth session was opened with devotional exercises
in which Rev. W. H. Meyer, President of the Kansas District,
addressed the convention on the topic “The Church’s Victory.”
Basing his remarks on 2 Cor. 2:14, he pointed up the grandeur of
the Christian’s triumph. Roman generals prided themselves on
the triumph of crushing others and devastating their fields. The
victory of the church consists in winning souls from the clutches
of Satan, making each individual soul beautiful through Christ
and giving it the peace that passes understanding. That is the
program we carry on. Of this victory we are sure in spite of oppo-
sition, disappointments, and slowness that may cause our spirits to