# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1959_S269
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LODGES AND BOY SCOUTS 269

Request by the Commission on Fraternal
Organizations for Director of Activities
RESOLUTION 3, COMMITTEE 7

Memorial 526, page 476, Reports and Memorials

Wuerras, Objectionable fraternal societies are constantly in-
tensifying their efforts to increase membership; and

Wuereas, The members of the Synod’s Commission on Frater-
nal Organizations find it impossible to discharge satisfactorily all
their responsibilities and tasks and to administer a program of the
greatest possible benefit to the church in general; therefore be it

Resolved, That in view of its rapidly expanding membership,
the Synod continue to maintain a consistently firm policy against
membership in such societies and to that end provide every
possible help to congregations and pastors in dealing with the
lodge evil; and be it further

Resolved, That the Board of Directors be instructed through
the Fiscal Conference to provide the funds necessary to enable
the Commission on Fraternal Organizations to carry on its work
effectively.

Action: This resolution, after one amendment had been made
and withdrawn, and after another amendment had been offered
and accepted, was adopted as printed above.

Synod’s Position with Reference to Certain Statements
in the Official Scout Regulations

RESOLUTION 4, COMMITTEE 7

Memorial 607, pages 500—502, Reports and Memorials

Wuereas, The questions posed in Memorial 607 , pages 500—502,
cannot be answered with a simple and unqualified yes or no; and

Wuereas, Synod has for several decades made extensive and
careful studies of the problems underlying these questions and has

definitely formulated its findings in the resolution adopted by the
1944 convention; and

Wuereas, The Commission on Fraternal Organizations, the
Board for Young People’s Work, and the Committee on Doctrinal
Unity have since 1944 repeatedly dealt with the issues raised in
said memorial and have always come to the conclusion that the

policy adopted by Synod in 1944 is sound and realistic: there-
fore be it