# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1959_S66
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

66 CONVENTION MINUTES

After various announcements the session closed with the hymn
“I Love Thy Kingdom, Lord,” the Lord’s Prayer, and the Apostolic
Blessing.
Session 2

June 18, Morning
Opening Devotion
In his devotional address Dr. Herman Harms spoke on Rom.
12:1,2: “The Transformed Life.” President H. F. Krohn of the
Southern Nebraska District served as liturgist.

The minutes of Wednesday afternoon were adopted as read.

Election Committee

The Election Committee distributed ballots containing the top
five candidates for the office of president.

Doctrinal Essay

Dr. Paul M. Bretscher began the reading of his doctrinal essay:
“Take Heed unto the Doctrine.” In our prayers and in our hymns
we express our concern for the doctrine. This is not simply the
thought of the consecrated heart, but it is taught by Scripture itself.
Dr. Bretscher enumerated the following points: God’s concern for
the doctrine, the source of the doctrine, the content of the doctrine,
and the communication of the doctrine.— A second ballot for the
presidency was distributed.

Committee 1— Seminaries and Colleges

The convention gratefully acknowledged three years of record
student enrollments (TB 115, 16), urged congregational steward-
ship of talented persons (TB 116, 17), encouraged recruitment for
the church professions (TB 113, 13), requested recruitment com-
mittees and colleges to use the scholarship screening service (TB
114, 14), and decided to continue the policy of granting special
scholarships to graduates of Lutheran high schools (TB 114, 15).
The resolution regarding synodical tuitions and scholarships (TB
110, 10) was finally adopted after the committee had struck the
words “system of” from paragraph “f” and the convention had
eliminated the words “for any reason” from paragraph “e” and
after paragraph “a” had been twice amended to read: “that synod-
ical tuition for one year be assessed and collected from every
student at the time of first enrollment in a synodical high school,
college, or seminary.” The convention also rescinded Resolution 26
of the 1956 convention, which had granted a lease to a portion of
the St. Louis campus for a Lutheran school (TB 112, 11). It also

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