# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1911_S134
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134 Proceedings of the 28th General or

...has laid upon us makes it our unavoidable duty to shape and organize the office of the General Presidium in such a way that its holders truly fulfill their difficult task, properly carry out their service in its full scope, and thus provide the Synod the benefit rightly expected of their work. Accordingly, we have come to the conviction, and hereby most urgently recommend that the Reverend Synod resolve, that the General President shall hold no other full-time office alongside the office of President.

"We therefore move the following change of wording in the paragraph of our synodical constitution concerning this matter: 'The General President may not hold a pastoral or professorial office, but may nevertheless be engaged in the capacity of pastor primarius or secundarius, in which capacity he has no further obligations toward the congregation or congregations that have engaged him as such, other than to serve the congregation, or congregations, during the time of his presence there, in whatever way he can and is willing to serve without detriment to his presidential duties.'

II.

"Regarding the second point of the petition, concerning the first General Vice-President, your Committee ventures to recommend that no change be made to the previous arrangement, for the following reasons:

"If the General President holds no other full-time office, and can thus devote his entire strength to the duties of the General Presidium, we believe he will be well able to fulfill all his presidential duties. Furthermore, we are of the opinion that, with regard to the functions assigned to the first General Vice-President in the petition, the Reverend Synod has already made sufficient provision, in that it is incumbent on all district presidents as well as all visitors to see to it, within their districts or their visitation circuits, that the Synod's three main treasuries are adequately and regularly provided for. It therefore seems to us that all that matters, and all that is necessary, is that this arrangement be conscientiously followed and carried out. We further believe that the General Vice-Presidents should not, in general, be formally assigned such functions as are proposed in the petition regarding the organization of the College of Presidents, because it does not seem advisable to us to tie the General President's hands in any way as to how he wishes to call upon the Vice-Presidents for assistance in carrying out his official work. Rather, it seems to us thoroughly more desirable that all commissions and boards report directly to him, since, after all, all the threads should converge in the hands of the General Presidium."

The wording of this committee report was adopted.