# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1914_S172
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172 Proceedings of the 29th General or

Recommendations of the Committee.

Regarding this petition, the committee recommends that the Reverend
Synod acknowledge the duty, as set forth in the petition, of providing for
servants of the church who have become unable to serve, and their
dependents or survivors respectively.

Its committee further recommends adoption of § 1, p. 115, which reads as
follows: "that, as the support of professors unable to serve because of
age or illness, and of their dependents or survivors, has hitherto been
provided for, so also the support of pastors and teachers unable to serve
because of age or illness, and of their dependents or survivors,
henceforth become the business of the General Synod."

Adoption of § 2 is likewise recommended: "that for this purpose a
Synodical Support Fund be created in place of the General and the
District Relief Funds."

§ 3 of the petition reads: "that this fund receive its money a. from the
net profit of the 'Homiletic Magazine' and the 'School Paper'; b. from the
legacies held by the General Synod and the Districts and designated for
this purpose; c. through collections and gifts from the congregations, and
d. through voluntary contributions of the professors, pastors, and
teachers."

We recommend adding further: e. through a subsidy of 10 percent from the
net profit of the Concordia Publishing House.

The following reasons were given for this addition:

1. Because the establishment of this general support fund would relieve
the synodical treasury of an expense of $4,000 to $6,000, while the new
fund would have to meet this sum by supporting emeritus professors and
their widows and minor children, it is only fair to let such a subsidy
flow into it.

2. Since pastors and teachers, acting as agents, bring in profit for the
publishing house, something of that net profit might well benefit their
widows and orphans.

3. By adding this subsidy alongside the other income, the fund would
possess the means to cover its necessary expenses.

§ 4, page 116, should be adopted with the change: 2 pastors, 2 teachers,
3 laymen.

§ 5 is recommended for adoption.

Paragraphs 6 and 7 may be struck as unnecessary.

Adoption of § 8 is recommended.

§ 9 is recommended in the following form: that the commission for the
administration of this fund be required to send each president and
visitor a semiannual report on its management of the fund; that this
report, if possible, be in the hands of the

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