# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1914_S129
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14th Delegate Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States, 1914. 129

[SCAN: left margin shows show-through/edge-bleed from the facing page (line-ends from the paragraph on page
128, e.g. "ellt.", "chen ſo", "nen, in", "vie aud") — not text of this page, not transcribed.]

On point 3. Since it from time to time becomes necessary to publish
a new schoolbook or to make certain improvements to those already in
use, it should be the duty of the commissions to inform themselves
about this and to meet existing needs. The final decision in these
matters would of course remain with the Synod, or rather with the
Board of Directors of the Concordia Publishing House.

In conclusion, we would ask the Reverend Delegate Synod to decide on
this proposal before proceeding to the election.

Recommendations of the Committee.

On point 1. We recommend that the Synod adopt this point, but with
the change that the commissions named consist of two professors and
three teachers, instead of one professor and two teachers actively
serving in the school office.

On point 2. We also recommend this point for adoption, and in
connection with it would like to draw the election committee's
attention to the following conference districts: the teachers'
conferences of Chicago, Milwaukee, Fort Wayne, Detroit, Cleveland,
St. Louis. In pointing to these cities, it is not our opinion that
all members of these commissions must be from the same city, but
rather that they be chosen from places close enough together to
make it possible for them to confer with one another without
incurring too great expense through travel costs.

On point 3. We recommend that this point likewise be adopted, but
that the words "to initiate on its own initiative" be struck and
simply replaced with: "to propose." We would point especially once
more to the rationale for point 3, and advise the Reverend Synod to
insist decidedly and unyieldingly that the final decision in this
matter remain with the Synod — that is, in this case, with the Board
of Directors of the Concordia Publishing House — or, in other words,
that the Synod itself retain control over it.

The committee's recommendations were raised to resolutions.

Biblical History for Mixed Schools.

Petition 46 pointed out that there was great demand in our circles
for a handbook that could be more useful for biblical history
instruction in middle grades than the existing textbooks.

Resolved, that such a Biblical History be published by our
publishing house.

Resolved, that Teachers H. R. U. Richert, M. Gräbner, and E. Rolf be
entrusted with the preparation of this new textbook.

[Signature at the foot of the page: "9" — a printer's sheet signature, not a folio.]