# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1911_S150
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150 Proceedings of the 28th General or

Committee No. 2, which had to evaluate the Board of Directors' report, submitted the following recommendations, which were adopted both in their several parts and as a whole.

"Your Committee takes the liberty of presenting the following regarding the report of the Concordia Publishing House.

"1. First, a correction of an omission that occurred through oversight. At the end of the list of publications in the report, the following is to be inserted: 'We believed we perceived a general need for Sunday school lessons from our press, and, in consultation with the Reverend St. Louis Faculty and under the chairmanship of a member of that faculty, Prof. G. Mezger, we have brought a series of Sunday school lessons to market. Although, for technical reasons, we unfortunately came somewhat too late with our advertisements for these for the year 1911, the success achieved so far with these Sunday school lessons is so decided that we have the joyful certainty of having made no mistake with this innovation.'

"2. After thorough discussion of the matter, your Committee further resolved to advise the Reverend Synod in the strongest terms to grant the appropriation of $50,000.00 requested by the publishing house for the erection of a new building. According to our agent's statements, the house is in fact quite severely hindered and hampered in its work by lack of space. In addition, according to the statements of experts, there is no small danger connected with the overloading of the storage floors. Some members of the Committee have personally satisfied themselves of this. — Now, how is this sum to be raised? Your Committee has examined and carefully studied various plans. Since, however, your Committee believes that, in view of the other appropriations, the Reverend Synod cannot and will not collect this $50,000.00 immediately — and the money should be available at once — your Committee proposes to authorize the Concordia Publishing House to issue $50,000.00 in bonds.

"3. The next recommendation, concerning the synodical assessment, your Committee would like to bring before the Synod with the amendment that, from January 1, 1912, the synodical assessment cease altogether. The Synod should instruct its officers to amend all relevant paragraphs in the "Synodal-Handbuch" accordingly, and to take all constitutional steps made necessary by such a change. The synodical report would thus be regarded as a publication supplied by subscription. We would, however, still like to mention that outstanding synodical assessments are still to be collected.

"4. Regarding the synodical reports, your Committee ventures to recommend that the present arrangement be retained, since it has begun to prove itself with the bulk orders. In this connection, however, we would like to take the opportunity to present the following to the Reverend Synod: "Since the synodical reports of the individual