# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1917_S54
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54

. Proceedings of 30th General Convention,

. @ Crime, by Mary E. Ireland; Bible History References, compiled by -
- F. Rupprecht; Sunday-school Prayers, compiled by Prof. C. Abbetmeyer; ”

William Tyndale, by Rev. Wm. Dallmann 3 Daily Prayers, selected and
adapted by Prof. C, Abbetmeyer; Four Hundred Years; Concordia Picture
Roll; Figures of Speech, by Prof. C, Abbetmeyer ; Capitalization and Pune-
tuation, by Prof. C, Abbetmeyer; The Case against the Lodge, by B. M.

Holt; King “Otto's Crown, by Mary E. Ireland; Churchgoing, by Rev. Wm.
Dallmann.

The net profits of the Publishing House for the past three years

have been as follows: 1914—15, $85,000: 1915—16, $115,000;
1916—17, $95,000; total, $295,000.

Report or CoMMITTER,
The committee to which the above report was referred made the
following recommendations, all of which were accepted by Synod: —

1) That the reduction of the Lutheraner from twenty to sixteen

pages be ratified, but that this publication be increased again to
twenty pages as soon. as practicable.

2a) That the publication of

b) That the suggestion to have the Distr
for discussion in alphabetical order, and toh
published in book form annually, be declared impracticable.

3) That the outstanding synodical dues be charged to profit
and loss, inasrhuch as it seems impossible to collect them.

iets take up the doctrines
ave these doctrinal papers ¢

Latin-German-Encuisy Epirion or Boox or Concorp.
The Faculty of the Theological Seminary at St. Louis advised 2
ion of a Latin-German-English edition of the Book of

8 matter was referred yecom- ;
mended the publication of the same, adding the suggestion that every ’
congregation place a copy in its sacristy. ,

STATISTICAL MATTERS.
A. “Sratisticar YeEar-Boox.” ;
ftesolved, That the Statistical Year-Book be published annually,
as formerly.
B. Pusrication or Sr

The English District had
tistical number of the Lutherane

ATISTICS IN THE PERIODICALS,

recommended that each year a sta-::
rand Lutheran Witness be published,