# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1959_S193
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

INTERSYNODICAL AND DOCTRINAL MATTERS 193

Resolved, That the Synod decline the request of Memorials 618
and 624 to declare the contested resolutions “null and void”; and
be it further

Resolved, That the Synod urgently request those who find
themselves in disagreement with the resolutions in question to
restudy these matters prayerfully, in order that we may all speak
the same thing, and that there be no divisions among us; but that
we be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same
judgment (1 Cor. 1:10); and be it finally

Resolved, That where such disagreement persists, synodical
officials (Circuit Counselor, District Praesidium, synodical Praesid-
ium) deal with the persons in question.

Action: This resolution was adopted.

Rejection of Report of Advisory Committee
on Doctrine and Practice
RESOLUTION 12, COMMITTEE 3

Memorial 625, page 526, Reports and Memorials

Wuereas, The Advisory Committee on Doctrine and Practice
was assigned the duty of examining an essay delivered at conven-
tions of the Southern California District and the California-Nevada
District in 1949; and

Wuereas, The Advisory Committee on Doctrine and Practice
thoroughly studied this essay and consulted with its author with
regard to its intent and meaning; and

Wuereas, The Advisory Committee on Doctrine and Practice
also consulted repeatedly and at length with those who objected
to the position taken by the essay in question; and

Wuereas, The published report of this committee showed that
the committee dealt with the matters entrusted to it with eminent
fairness; and

Wuereas, The report clearly shows that the concerns expressed
in Memorial 625 are without valid foundation and that the Word
of God has not been violated; and

Wuereas, The report of the Advisory Committee on Doctrine
and Practice was approved by the 1956 synodical convention;
therefore be it

Resolved, That we reaffirm the approval of the report of the
Advisory Committee on Doctrine and Practice given at that con-
vention.

Action: This resolution was adopted.