# Synodical Conference Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1954_S201
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Ev. Luth. Synodical Conference of North America, 1954 201

Council, Lutheran World Federation and World Council of
Churches (cf, e, g., Luth. Standard, July, 1952, p. 8), organizations
which the Synodical Conference has found to be unionistic (cf, e. g.,
Mo. Synod Proceedings, 1950, p. 692).

Fact 3. The American Lutheran Church, by unanimous con-
vention action, continues to move toward an early merger with
church bodies which are not in agreement in doctrine and practice
with the Synodical Conference (cf. Luth. Standard, October 23,
1954, p. 3).

Fact 4. The President of the American Lutheran Church has
declared that differences “remaining to be ironed out” for the final
merger “have nothing to do with doctrine and practice” (St. Paul,
Minn., Pioneer Press, J anuary 14, 1954),

Fact 5. The President of the American Lutheran Church de-
clared to the 1954 convention of the American Lutheran Church
that there is “complete agreement” between the Common Con-
fession and the United Testimony on Faith and Life, the uniting
confessional basis of the merger within the American Lutheran
Conference, while, on the other hand, officers of the Missouri Synod
have publicly expressed grave concern regarding the adequacy of
the United Testimony, and have raised questions concerning the

Fact 6. In August, 1950, Dr. Fendt of the American Lutheran
Church, a member of the joint subcommittee which drafted the
Common Confession, declared that the Common Confession sets
forth “the doctrine taught by both synods” and that “the underlying
motivation (in drafting the Common Confession) was to give ex-
Pression to existing doctrinal unity rather than to rehearse past
doctrinal disagreements or to seek compromises or conversions
among the negotiators” (C.T.M., 1950, p. 773),

Fact 7. Scripture doctrines held by the Synodical Conference

ave, subsequent to the adoption of the Common Confession, been
denied and attacked in publications of the American Lutheran
Church (cf. Luth. Standard, October 25, 1952, p. 4, on Creation;
February 21, 1953, p.15, on Inspiration), without public rebuke

Fact 8. The statement of the Chairman of the Missouri Synod’s
Committee on Doctrinal Unity that the American Lutheran Church

mittee” (Dr. Dell in Lutheran Outlook, August, 1953, Pp. 230).