# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1971_S244
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

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244 PRESIDENT’S REPORT

scoffer who said: “Ein jeder kann nach seiner Facon selig
werden.” What is the language of the unionists, all the
way down the line to the most rabid unbelievers, when they
are confronted with the letter of God’s Word? “Yes,” they
say, “those words are indeed written, but who will incon-

passage is the correct one? Does not all strife in Christendom
arise out of human interpretation?”

The words that Luther wrote concerning the alloiosis with
which Zwingli tried to support his doctrine of Holy Com-
munion: “Beware, beware, I say, of the alloiosis: it is the
devil’s specter; for it finally gives us a Christ after whom
I would not like to be called a Christian” must be applied
to the principle that doctrines of faith are not clearly and

unmistakably revealed in Scripture, for it takes the very
heart out of the Bible and prevents us from believing its
divine message.

We close with this Prayer on our lips: May the Lord
guard and defend the Church, the dearly bought communion
of saints, in this new fatherland of Ours against the inane
theory which at the present time is a cancerous sore in the
theology and the Church of our former fatherland and which,
if it gained ground here, would gnaw at the root of the
freshly budding tree of our American Church and cause it
to wither away again! A 8eneral acceptance of this principle
would indeed establish peace in the Church, but a syncretis-.
tic peace, of which the sainted Dannhauer said: Foris riyivn,
intus @oivwue (externally peace, internally discord).