# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1959_S196 # Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration) 196 RESOLUTIONS — COMMITTEE 3 Resolved, That the signers of Memorial 623 be advised to find the answer to their laudable and justified concern for doctrinal unity and practice by employing the doctrinal statements already approved and the procedural channels authorized by The Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod. Action: This resolution was adopted. Joining the Lutheran World Federation RESOLUTION 18, COMMITTEE 3 Memorials 608, 609, 610, 611, pages 502 ff., Reports and Memorials Memorial 629, page 531, Reports and Memorials Unprinted Memorial 636, page 74, Today’s Business Wuereas, The Synod in its convention of 1956 resolved “that our Committee on Doctrinal Unity represent The Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod in future meetings with the officials of the Lu- theran World Federation” (Proceedings, p. 538); and Wuereas, The Committee on Doctrinal Unity reports in Reports and Memorials, 1959 (p. 480), that it is at present engaged in dis- cussion with the officials of the Lutheran World Federation; there- fore be it Resolved, That the Synod defer action on the question of membership in the Lutheran World Federation until the report of the Committee on Doctrinal Unity on this matter is available. Action: This resolution was adopted by a unanimous vote. Meet with The American Lutheran Church to Establish God-pleasing Unity RESOLUTION 19, COMMITTEE 3 Memorial 614, page 507, Reports and Memorials Unprinted Memorial 638, page 454, Today’s Business Wuereas, The American Lutheran Church, the Evangelical Lutheran Church, and the United Evangelical Lutheran Church are planning the completion of their merger in 1960; and Wuereas, The Synod has repeatedly expressed its readiness to meet with other church bodies for doctrinal discussions; therefore be it Resolved, That the Committee on Doctrinal Unity invite the representatives of the new The American Lutheran Church (TALC) to meet for the purpose of seeking a God-pleasing unity and fellowship; and be it further