# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1962_S211 # Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration) Administration, chair of, in colleges 81 Advance magazine 144 Adventuring in the Church 144, 180, 181, 194 Advisory Council 71 Advisory representatives 70 Africa, mission work 97, 175 Amling, Clarence 166 Ann Arbor college, offerings of Michigan and Central District congregations 82, 83 Appeals original cases in Synod 71 transcript 134 Appeals case 52, 53 Appreciation, resolutions of 91 Architecture, Committee on Church 162 Archives, copies of official documents to 133 Archives and History, Department of 133 Argentina 76, 77 Armed Services Commission 162 Asia, seminaries in 98 Assignment of calls 71 of teacher colloquy applicants 75 Assistant professors promoting 75 tenure 75, 76 Atlantic area, college in 170, 173 Austin additional professorships 88 capital investment projects 85 Baptism 25—27 responsibility of parents and congrega- tion in 114 Behnken, John W. closing address 14 Honorary President 165, 166 President’s address 7, 8 President’s triennial report 9—12 statement, “elect another” 13 Benefit program See Pensions Berkeley, Calif., house of studies 83 Bermuda, possible mission field 95. Bible | institute, leadership education 116, Bible study, “Train Two” program 116 Bible translations 126, 127, 141, 193—196 Blind, missions to 92 Board of Directors of the Synod 11 implement convention handbook 164 power to borrow 157 report 148 Boards elected 66, 67 merger or discontinuation of 134 Boards of control ; call for nominations for faculty service 73 elected 67 election of elective members 72 personnel 71, 72 staff appointments 72 suggestions for 71 visitations 81 Boehne, John W. 166 Books, limit use of heterodox 81 Bouman, H. J. A., essays 15—18, 30—-33 Brazil 76 Brazil District 93, 174, 175 sister-church status 127 Brethren, reunion of separated 108, 180 Brief Statement 105, 181 revision of 104 signing 104 Brockopp family, sympathy to 167 Bronxville college additional professorships 88 capital investment projects 85 four-year teacher education 78 gifts of Atlantic District individuals and congregations 89 Budget of the Synod, establishing the 155, 15 Bylaws, changes and additions in 128 See also Handbook California, southern, junior college in 79 Call for instructors and assistant profes- sors 75 Call to faculty service 73 Cambridge, theological program 92 Campus work 100 Canada, Lutheran Church — Canada 131 Caribbean area, attempt to establish na- tional church 91 Catechism intersynodical translation 118, 119, 186 new, faithful to Scripture 119 RSV, use of 120 Censorship of Witness and Lutheraner 160 Central District division 126 TOPICAL INDEX TOPICAL INDEX Central Office Service Department 137, 191 Chaplain, Lutheran, publication of 140, 1 Chicago regional public-relations office 158, 159 site purchases in area 83 Christian Century 179 Church and state relations 138, 139 Church extension annual loan goals 99 management principles, accounting struc- tures, reporting procedures 99 Church Extension Fund 74, 91 Church literature and publications 149 to 144 Advance magazine 144 Adventuring in the Church 144 Bible translations 141 Committee for Research 142 Communism, materials against 143 Concordia Publishing House expansion Concordia Publishing House report 140 Concordia Tract Mission 142 District proceedings publication 143 General Literature Board report 143 Lutheran Chaplain, publication of 140, 141 : marriage, divorce, remarriage, and re- lated customs, research on 141, 142 periodicals, indexing of 142 Reports and Memorials, wider distribu- tion 142 theological publications not easily ac- cessible 140 Walther’s writings, publication of 143 Young People’s Literature Board report Church relations observers at national and international conventions and conferences 101 Presbyterians, meetings with 102 See also Doctrinal and intersynodical matters; Theology and Church Rela- tions, Commission on Circuits realignment 129 stewardship representative, training of City, inner 93, 94 Class barriers 94 College and University Work, Commission on 100, 191, 192 house of studies at Berkeley, Calif., 83 Colleges and seminaries 70—100 accreditation 80 additional professorships 88 budget, current operating 73 business management 73, 74 capital fund inclusions and estimates 88 capital investments, classification 85—87 curriculum development 80 discipline of student 72 Graduate Studies, School for 82, 178, 179 junior college in Southeast 80, 170 junior college in southern California 79, 169 limit use of heterodox books 81 master planning 81 nonrefundable use charge for buildings 83 preserving and promoting pure teaching 103 staff identification and development 81 theological training, accelerated pro- gram of 81 tuition scholarships 82 West, expansion in 79, 80, 169, 170 See also Faculties; President of institu- tion; Professors; Student Colloquies nonsynodically trained woman teacher 90 pastor 74 teacher 74, 75 Colloauies, Committee on, for Teaching Ministry 74 Colloquies, Committee on Pastor 75 Colloquies, Committee on Teacher 75 Common Confession 105 Communion ware, individual 165, 202 Communism guidelines for study of religious aspects of 120 instruction regarding 81, 172, 173 materials against 143 opposition of Christianity to 164 Concordia Historical Institute publication of Walther’s works 143 report 161, 162 Concordia Historical Institute Quarterly Concordia, Mo., college, capital investment projects 211 Concordia Publishing House 142 expansion 140 report 140 Conferences attendance at official 71 free, inviting Lutheran Churches of Augsburg Confession 104, 178, 179 intersynodical 71 professors 70 purposes 71 : “Confessional Church in Christendom and in the World’ — doctrinal-devotional essays 15—41 “Confessional Church Reviews Her Lodge Practice” — Kramer 33—37 “Confessional Church Views the Ecumeni- cal Movement” — Kramer 21—24 Confessions, Lutheran 15—41 Conflict of interest, to avoid potential 156 Congregation increase levy for convention cost 163 responsibility in Baptism 114 to dismiss a, from the Synod 167 Constitution of Missouri Synod, Article II 16, 105, 122 Constitutional matters 122—137 annual District conventions 126 appeal cases, transcript in 134 biennial conventions 125 boards, merger or discontinuation of 134 Brazil District sister-church status 127 Bylaw changes and additions 128 Central District division 126 congregations transferring to South- eastern District 133 convention length 125 convention size, limiting 131 delegates, responsibility of 134 District mission boards 129 District Presidents and Vice-Presidents, election of 129, 130 District relationship to the Synod 128 doctrinal discipline procedure 135 documents, official, copies to archives 133 First Vice-President as acting President 128, 129 First Vice-President, election of 130 Handbook See Handbook institutional chaplaincies 133, 134 limiting membership on boards or com- mittees 129 Literature, Commission on Church 135, Lutheran Church — Canada 131 Lutheran Laymen's League, recognition of 134, 135 Lutheran Women’s Missionary League, recognition of 134, 135 “Manual of Synodical Operations” 123 Mentally Retarded, Board for Services to 125, 126 military chaplains, ordination and com- missioning of 130 Minnesota District division 127 missionaries, ordination and commis- sioning of 131 missionary representation at conventions 0 missions, single division of 136, 137 name change of the Synod 128 ordination, prerequisites for 131 President’s advisory and executive func- tions 132 President’s right to suspend 124, 125 realignment of circuits and Districts 129 Resolution 9 (1959), constitutionality 122, 123 Review Commission, establishment of “self-government,” clarification of term 127, 128 Survey Commission report 132 Survey Commission unfinished items 137 sweeping reorganization of the Synod Television Productions, Board for Lu- theran 133 term of office 130, 132 Vice, Presidents, regional and additional voting right at conventions 129 Constitutional Matters, Committee on 124, 0 resolution of thanks to 135 supplement to report 187 Contributions, step up proportion for mis- sions 98, 99 Convention handbook 164 Convention roster 42-50 tabular survey 50 Conventions biennial 125 increase levy: toward cost of 163 invitations accepted 165