# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1911_S332
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...something could be remedied in these funds. Finally, such a plan
would also better correspond to fairness toward all congregations.

The Oregon and Washington District hopes that the Reverend Delegate
Synod will give this matter serious consideration.

At its convention last year, the Oregon and Washington District
resolved to adopt the point concerning the individual districts,
namely, that all money coming in response to an appeal circulating
within our district should, as a rule, flow back into the district's
Church Building Fund.

Wishing the Reverend Delegate Synod God's rich blessing on its
deliberations, in the name and on behalf of the Oregon and Washington
District,

its secretary,
Arthur Spleiß.

Changes to Our Church Agenda.

To the Reverend Delegate Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States,
assembled at St. Louis, Mo., from May 10 to 20, 1911.

In response to the reminder issued at the time in the *Lutheraner* to
send proposals for improving our Agenda to the undersigned commission,
more than 40 pastoral conferences and individual pastors have made
themselves heard. Changes both great and small have been proposed,
well over 600 of them. Were all of them to be taken into account, we
would end up with essentially a new Agenda. Were all the pieces
proposed for new inclusion (rites, prayers, series of pericopes,
liturgical additions) inserted, we would end up with a *Corpus
liturgicum* [body of liturgy] or a *Thesaurus sacrorum rituum*
[treasury of sacred rites] rather than a plain, usable Agenda. — In
the work entrusted to us, we proceeded from the idea that in a church
book that has been known and in use in many hundreds of congregations
for long decades, one should not change as much as possible, but only
as much as appears necessary for its blessed use; and, so far as its
overall extent is concerned, we have sought to keep it as far as
practicable unchanged, by proposing, for the most desirable pieces to
be added, the omission of those in which we see no real benefit.

To begin with the latter, we propose to omit from the new church
Agenda: 1. The form for Communion of the Sick, which now fills 9
pages (pp. 29–38). As a rule, one uses the pocket Agenda for
Communion of the Sick anyway. (A shortening of the form there, too,
would be very advisable.) 2. The Enchiridion, which now comprises 24
pages. Whoever needs it for catechism instruction can simply bring
along the Small Catechism. Pages 60–65, on the other hand, are to
remain. 3. A number of church prayers that are either too long and
cannot be divided, or for which there is no use because the feast
days in question either are no longer...