# LCMS Commission on Constitutional Matters Minutes_St. Louis Missouri_NOVEMBER 10 1955_S7
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

Minutes of the Committee on Constitutional Matters 11/10/55 Oo 33.
dismissing a pastor, teacher, or congregational officer are persistent adherence
to false doctrine, scandalous life, and inability to perform his official duties
or wilful neglect thereof.
ARTICIE VII
Officers
The officers of this congregation shall be as many elders, trustees, and
other officers, boards, or committees as the By-laws of this congregation may
prescribe.
ARTICIE VIII
Property Rights
If at any time a separation should take place on account of doctrine, the
property of the congregation and all benefits therewith connected shall remain with
those voting members who continue to adhere in confession and practice to Article
IIr of this Constitution. In the event the congregation should totally disband ,
the property and all rights connected therewith shall revert to the --------~-
District of The Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod.

ARTICIE IX

Doctrinal Literature —

In the public services of the congregation, and in all ministerial acts,
only such hymns, prayers, and liturgies shall be used as conform to the confessional
standard of Article III. Likewise, in all classes for instruction in Christian
doctrine, only such books shall be used as conform to this standard.

ARTICIE X
By-laws |
This congregation may adopt such By-laws as may be required for the accom-
plishment of its purpose.
ARTICIE XI
Changing Constitution
a. Unalterable Articles. The following articles of this Constitution or

sections thereof shall be unalterable and irrepealable: III, IV, V, & IX.