# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1962_S101 # Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration) 160 RESOLUTIONS — COMMITTEE 3 Resolved, That a proportionate commitment of each annual budget be assured to supply an annual increase to the capital account portion of the Church Extension Fund. Action: This resolution was adopted. To Intensify Work on Campuses of Colleges and Universities RESOLUTION 2-27 Report 212, pp. 134—136, Reports and Memorials Wuereas, The vast majority of the Synod’s young people must seek a higher education in colleges and universities not sponsored by our Synod; and Wuereas, The church’s mission to these colleges and universities has been fruitful and resourceful, aided by the efforts of the Synod’s Commission on College and University Work; and Wuereas, The number of the nation’s and the world’s youth in colleges (also junior colleges) and universities is rapidly increasing; therefore be it Resolved, That this convention direct the Synod to implement the resolution of the delegate convention of 1959 to grant funds to finance handicapped Districts for work in colleges and universities; and be it further Resolved, That synodical Districts who have not yet created a District Commission on College and University Work be encouraged to do so; and be it further Resolved, That the synodical Commission on College and University Work continue its efforts to establish Lutheran chairs of religion in universities and that a maximum of five new chairs be financed and estab- lished, if possible, during the next triennium; and be it finally Resolved, That the Synod’s Board for World Missions be encouraged to explore and develop a college and university program including the support of student hostels in the overseas mission fields. Action: This resolution was adopted. To Thank the Lutheran Women’s Missionary League RESOLUTION 2-28 Unprinted Memorial 221, pp.56,57, Today’s Business Wueregas, The Lutheran Women’s Missionary League this year observes the 20th anniversary of its found- ing; and Wuereas, In those years the league has gathered millions of dollars for missionary work throughout the world, pledging $240,000 in specific grants during the current biennium; and Wuereas, The benefits to the church through its Christian Growth program institutes, contact with mis- sionaries and missionary education, and thoughtful planning for the future, add significant dimensions to the substantial financial operations of the league; there- fore be it Resolved, That this convention express its heartfelt thanks to God for the fruits of faith and Christian labors of the church’s women in this organization throughout these years, commend its activities to all of its congregations, and encourage its leadership to continued zeal in guiding many to practice its motto: “Serve the Lord with gladness.” Action: This resolution was adopted. COMMITTEE 3 — Doctrinal and Intersynodical Matters Preamble to the Report of Committee 3 The task committed to your Floor Committee 3 is an exacting one, and we are laboring with a deep sense of our responsibility to the church and to the Lord of the church, before whose judgment seat we shall have to give an account of our work. We have endeavored to avoid two dangers. The one is that we evade the issues that confront us at this convention. The other is that we oversimplify our problems and give pat solutions that resolve nothing. We have attempted, therefore, within the time allotted us, to hear all our brethren, to learn their concerns, and to assess their presentations. We have worked in a spirit of profound concern for all members of our Synod, for all those in our larger fellowship, for our separated brethren, and for the cause of confessional Lutheranism generally. We have labored, with prayer, to maintain a charitable objec- tivity toward all the persons and problems involved in our work. We have at times found our work disheartening; but we have not been, in the last analysis, disheartened by it. We do have grave problems; but it would be ingratitude to a bountiful God to say that the church in which we are privileged to work has only problems. God has blessed the work of our hands wondrously, and it is marvelous in our eyes. And it would be little- ness of faith to let these problems themselves dismay us. The lively and passionate zeal for purity of doctrine is a gift of God to our church, even if this zeal may seem to us at times to be an overimpetuous one. We consider the unusual measures taken for the fair solution of doc- trinal problems, and the unusual amount of time allotted to them, to be a mark of our church’s strength. And if we let these problems drive us again and again to the Gospel proclaimed in the Scriptures and witnessed by our Confessions, we shall find that the clouds we so much dread are big with mercy and will break in blessing on our head. We therefore plead with the convention to work in the same spirit, with a charitable objectivity, and in the high and joyous confidence that even while the Lord is trying us, He is at work tempering and strengthening us. Deus vult suos fortes facere — “God would make heroes of His own” (Luther). Let us submit to His fatherly hand and quit ourselves like men.