# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1959_S0
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

vi FOREWORD

the President of the Synod. Several of these committees had met
prior to the opening of the convention. Public hearings were
scheduled by those committees which dealth with matters in which
there was a widespread interest.— The PRocEEDINGS include a list
of all committees, pp. 104—107.

The pulpits of the congregations of the Bay Area were occu-
pied by visiting clergymen on Synodical Sunday, June 21. The
evening of Synodical Sunday was given over to the presentation
of a drama of the Church at Worship and at Work. In keeping
with the convention theme, the drama was entitled, “Declare His
Glory”; it had been prepared and directed by the Rev. Robert
Clausen and was presented by the members of the Lutheran Actors
Company with special assistance from Cross and Crown Produc-
tions and selected local talent.

Preceding this event, a public reception had been held in
Brooks Hall, an annex to the Civic Auditorium; this gave the mem-
bers of our Bay Area congregations the opportunity to meet per-
sonally some of the leaders of the Church.

Brooks Hall also provided ample space for interesting and
informative exhibits prepared by various Boards and Committees
of the Synod as well as by church-related organizations.

An effort has been made to reduce the number of pages of
these ProcEEpincs by omitting the text of the various reports and
memorials and printing only the text of the resolutions as they
were adopted by the convention. However, preceding every reso-
lution, the proper identification has been made (page in Reports
and Memorials) of the report or memorial to which the resolu-
tion refers. In cases where unprinted memorials are involved,
reference has been made to the pages in Today’s Business on which
the text of these unprinted memorials can be found.

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