# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1899_S100
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100 Proceedings of the 24th General, or

Board of Directors, Agency, and Treasury.

"The Board of Directors of the Concordia Publishing House hereby
takes the liberty of reporting to the Reverend Synod on its activity
during the synodical term from April 1, 1896, to April 1, 1899.

"With thanks to God we acknowledge that, despite every obstacle,
the Synod's business has not declined, but that God has visibly ruled
over it with his blessing, so that it is in a flourishing condition, as
the report of the General Agent shows.

"Besides the periodicals, school books, and devotional books, the
following works were produced: the Synodical Catechism, in English and
German; Bible History, illustrated; a supplement to the Liederperlen
[a hymn collection], together with an edition of the complete
Liederperlen with piano accompaniment; three volumes of Luther's
works; Common School Geography; Language Lessons II; Dümling's
Arithmetic IV, revised; a Fibel [primer], new series; Primer Charts;
Günther's Symbolik [Symbolics], revised; Gräbner's Doctrinal Theology;
Baier's Compendium; F. Pieper's Dogmatik [Dogmatics]; G. Stöckhardt's
Bibliſche Geſchichten II [Bible History II]; Walther's Geſetz und
Evangelium [Law and Gospel]; a school hymnal; the Synodical Handbook;
several booklets of youth literature, in German and English;
biographies, etc. Also acquired by purchase for the publishing house:
R. Pieper's Homiletik [Homiletics]. A revision of Stark's Handbook is
in progress.

"We believe we have at last arranged the binding of the school
books so that it gives no further cause for justified complaints.
Since our hymnals have often been rebound by an outside firm, which
has brought our binding into disrepute, the 'Trade Mark' of the
Concordia Publishing House will henceforth be stamped on the back of
every hymnal we bind.

"Regarding the History of the United States and the new series of
Readers ordered by the Reverend Synod, we take the liberty of
reporting that no manuscript has yet been delivered to us. The
preparation of the Readers was undertaken about two years ago by the
Milwaukee Teachers' Conference in cooperation with Prof. G. W. Müller.

"The Reverend Synod charged the Board of Directors with
publishing a yearly set of short sermons in large print. On the
recommendation of the faculty at St. Louis, 'Predigten von Corvinus'
[Sermons by Corvinus] were chosen instead. These are in print and will
appear shortly.

"Besides the works it has itself published, the Concordia
Publishing House has now also, at the request of the Synod's existing
Tract Society, taken over distribution of the tracts published by
that society.

"The maps for the School Bible and for the Bible History for the
middle grades are finished and have been included with the new
edition of both books.