# LCMS Commission on Constitutional Matters Minutes_St. Louis Missouri_undated_S1
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MINUTES OF THE FIFTH MEETING OF THE
COMMITTEE ON CONSTITUTIONAL MATTERS
HELD AT CHICAGO, ILLINOIS

Feb: 2, 1

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The meeting was called to order by the chairman, President W. H. Meyer.
All members were present,

The following business was transacted:

1. The question was raised whether the appointment of the Editorial Board
for the Witness, Section 11.85, and that of Der Lutheraner, Section 11.103, should
not be mentioned in Section 2,05, under “"“Appointive Officers and Boards", This

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2. Gensorship of Der Lutheraner and the literature for the Blind. It was

agreed that a new section, Section 11,105, should be added, similar to Section .
11.95, which nakes the censorship of the Witness the responsibility of the St.
Louis Faculty. As to the censorship of the literature for the Blind, a new para-
graph like 8.37b should be added in Section 8.47 as paragraph c, making the present
Hot MQt, and "d", Ne", Accordingly corrections should be made in the topical in-
dex.

3. Dre Paul Schelp of our seminary at Porto Alegre, Brazil, had submitted
the question whether Sections 4.55 and 4.75 make it impossible for such as are lay
members of a synodical congregation to become regular teachers in our schools. The
secretary's answer to this question was considered correct, that these paragraphs
take care of the situation when people come to us for ordination or installation
who were not trained in our institutions, but that those who already are affiliated
with one of our congregations are permitted and expected to pass an examination.
(Cf. 4.87.) |

4. The committee discussed the question whether an Executive Secretary of
all missions is necessary, since the separate missions, like the Foreign Missions,
have their own executive secretaries, Perhaps the entire sub-division under "VIII,
. Missions", 8,01 to 8.09, should be omitted, as well as all references to the "Sec-

retary of Missions" and his being on all mission boards, as in Section 8.45, No