# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1914_S180
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180 Proceedings of the 29th General or

b. The publication of a booklet with suitable choral music. — Adopted.

c. That the St. Louis faculty be asked to have a suitable but not overly
extensive book, illustrated, on the significance of the Reformation
published in German and English. — Adopted.

Note. It is recommended that programs for the festival be published,
since this would be of service to many of our congregations. — Adopted.

II.

Since this celebration is also to be a thanksgiving festival, in which we
render thanks for the benefits shown us through the Reformation — thanks
that should consist not only in words but also in deeds — the committee
recommends that the Synod advise the congregations to take up, at this
celebration, a special collection befitting the significance of the
festival, and that the gathering of funds begin even now through the
systematic approach of individual members, so that as large a sum as
possible may be brought as a thank offering. — Adopted.

Regarding the use of the sum collected, the committee recommends:

a. That the pre-committee's first proposal, concerning the founding of a
Lutheran university, be dropped. — Adopted.

b. That, with regard to the support of servants of the church and their
dependents or survivors who have become unable to serve, the proceeds of
this fund be used to support servants of the church in need of support.
— This recommendation of the committee was rejected. Resolved, that the
jubilee collection be given to the General Church Building Fund instead.

III.

a. Your committee is not convinced of the usefulness of a free
distribution of small tracts in German on the blessings of the
Reformation; but it might be advisable to have such small tracts
distributed free in English.

Resolved, to distribute small tracts in both English and German. (The
booklets of the Herrmann publishing house were recommended.)

b. We recommend for adoption the pre-committee's proposal that the Synod
advise all its districts to charge men from their number with the task of
watching the doings of the Romanists, and, should these make public
attacks on our doctrine and our faith, to answer them in kind. — Adopted.

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