# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1911_S151
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13th Delegate Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States, 1911. 151

...individual districts of our Synod should nonetheless be regarded as the property of the whole Synod; since, further, it must make a bad impression if we do not have our own materials printed in our own house; since one could then no longer be certain that the doctrinal content is properly reviewed, which is all the more important because our Synodical Reports, insofar as they contain doctrine, are regarded as a confession of the Synod' — therefore we recommend that the Synod resolve that our Synodical Reports shall henceforth be printed only by the Concordia Publishing House.

"5. Your committee further recommends that the Reverend faculty of the St. Louis Seminary be relieved of censorship over job-printing work that has nothing to do with doctrinal matters, since the members of the faculty are in any case overburdened with work.

"6. Your committee further supports the Board of Directors of the Concordia Publishing House in its recommendation of adequate, professional fire insurance, but in such a way that, with the addition of the present fund of $32,000.00, sufficient outside insurance be drawn upon until the fund now on hand has grown so large that it forms, without professional insurance, its own adequate insurance. The previously mentioned issuance of bonds would already make the insurance in question necessary.

"7. Your committee recommends that the changing of the fiscal year be left to the Concordia Publishing House, and that all resolutions and regulations contrary to this recommendation be repealed.

"8. As for the free distribution of periodicals and books, your committee recommends that the Reverend General President appoint a committee consisting of two pastors, one teacher, and two active and disinterested businessmen — with the Board of Directors, however, likewise having seat and vote through one representative — which shall make final determinations on this matter. The members of this committee should (with the possible exception of the Board of Directors) live as near together as possible, since two or more meetings will probably be necessary. The committee should, some six to eight weeks before its first meeting, invite proposals through a notice in the *Lutheraner* [the Synod's German-language periodical], and should have acted definitively well ahead of January 1, 1912."

Further resolutions concerning printed matter.

Resolved, that first of all the most important writings, articles, and letters of Dr. Walther that are no longer available on the market be published in convenient collected volumes.

Resolved, that Prof. W. Dau be commissioned to prepare a complete English biography of Dr. Walther.

Resolved, that the Synod refrain for now from the publication of a Bible with brief explanations and notes for...