# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1965_S6
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

6 FOREWORD

responsibility of recording the minutes. These minutes
also form a part of the ProcEEDINGS.

Reports and overtures received too late for inclusion
in the Convention Workbook had been made available
to the delegates in a separately printed pamphlet and
were listed as “Unpublished” (Un). In order to make
them available quite generally and to complete the
record, these “unpublished” overtures are being in-
cluded in these Proceepincs. In addition, some reports
and overtures arrived even after the “unpublished”
overtures had been compiled but before the final dead-
line had been reached on June 6. These were mimeo-
graphed (M) for the delegates and have also been in-
cluded in these PROCEEDINGS.

The address and report by President Harms; the
address by Executive Director Wolbrecht (illustrated) ;
the opening sermon by Dr. Wittmer; the closing sermon
by Dr. Wiederaenders; and the “Supplement to the
Report and Recommendations of the Commission on
Theology and Church Relations” (which appeared a

few days before the convention) have also been made
a part of the record in these PROCEEDINGS.

Finally, we have followed the custom introduced
three years ago of inserting convention pictures at ap-
propriate places in the Procgeprncs in order to break
the monotony of many printed pages and to give those
who could not attend the convention another pictorial
glimpse of what happened at Detroit during convention
days — at times through pictures which have not been
used in other church publications.

* * *

The undersigned now signs off as Secretary of The
Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod with a prayer of
gratitude to God for giving him this rewarding oppor-
tunity for service and with an expression of apprecia-
tion to the many members of the Synod who have
helped him to discharge his duties in the various capa-
cities in which he has been asked to serve since 1932.

W. C. BirkNER
Secretary