# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1914_S165
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14th Delegate Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States, 1914.                    165

become more numerous, hence your commission's modest request on
behalf of the Church Building Fund: "But to do good and to communicate
forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased," Heb. 13:16.
Your commission further takes the liberty of repeating its 1908
request, namely, of recommending to a Reverend Synod that it extend
the rules governing this commission so as to include schoolhouses and
parsonages as well. A needed schoolhouse or parsonage is often what
serves a mission most immediately, especially where the state school
laws are unfavorable to our parochial schools, or where the
congregation is unable to pay 8 to 10 percent interest or a high rent
for a parsonage.

Because of the serious illness of our faithful and long-serving
treasurer, Mr. A. C. F. Wichman, your commission has recently found it
necessary to appoint a temporary assistant treasurer, and with the
consent of the Reverend General President, Mr. Bernhard Schieferdecker
of this city has consented to serve.

Besides its regular meetings, your commission has also held many
special meetings.

Recommendations of the Committee.

1. In view of the steadily increasing number of requests, your
committee most warmly recommends to a Reverend Synod that it resolve
to work with full strength toward increasing the assets of the Church
Building Fund significantly, as soon as possible, through collections
and interest-free loans.

2. We recommend that the Reverend Synod resolve to extend the rules
governing the commission so as to include schoolhouses and parsonages
as well. As far as parsonages are concerned, however, a loan is to be
made only in the most extreme exceptional cases.

3. We therefore recommend that the Reverend Synod amend the first
sentence of the regulation now in force to read as follows:

"Resolved, that a General Church-Building Relief Fund be
established, from which advances can and shall be extended — up to
half the cost of the building — to such incorporated congregations of
our Synod as are unable, from their own means, to undertake a needed
church, school, or parsonage building. Only in the most urgent
exceptional cases, however, shall the commission advance money for a
parsonage."

The committee's recommendations were adopted as resolutions.

P. C. F. Walther gave thanks, on behalf of the Minnesota mission
commission, for the special consideration the commission had shown the
Northwest.