# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1926_S167
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Evy. Luth. Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States. 1926. 167

hereafter three months’ grace to renew subscriptions be granted, as

‘the law permits.”

Respectfully submitted for the Atlantic District,
March 5, 1926. Karu Krerzmann, Secretary.

On recommendation of Committee 14 Synod resolved to retain
the cash-in-advance policy, that therefore all periodicals be paid in
advance.

Publication of Synodical Reports.
Memorial of Ontario District.

At the Elmira convention, in 1924, the Ontario District resolved
to recommend to Synod that, if the Synodical Reports can no longer
be published in the old way, they be issued as Part II of the Statis-
tical Year-Book with a short résumé or outline of the essay. The
manuscripts of the essays should be deposited in the Synodical
archives to make them available for publication in cheap pamphlet
form after selection has been made by the proper authorities and for
inspection by the Synodical Conference.

Memorial of Oregon and Washington District.

Whereas the present mode of publishing our Synodical Reports
is proving unsatisfactory, the Oregon and Washington District would

; like to make the following recommendations : —

1. That, as formerly, the reports of the individual Districts be
published by Concordia Publishing House; -

2. That a report appear every two weeks;

3. That no report exceed a spread of 86 pages. Should a District
wish to exceed this number, it must bear the extra expense;

4, That the report of a volume be enlarged so as ‘to include the
President’s Report; .

5. That the subscription price do not exceed $3 a year;

6. That District presidents and visitors diligently encourage all
: pastors, teachers, and professors to subscribe for all Synodical Re-
ports and with proper diligence provide for the distribution of their
own Synodical Reports among the laity of their circles.

Memorial of Eastern District.

“It is our opinion that Concordia Publishing House was estab-
lished by our spiritual fathers not primarily for financial profits, but
for the service of the Church, and that obvious violations of this
principle, also through resolutions of Synod, have resulted in a loss
_ both in morale and in spirituality within our Synod, as, for instance,
. in the case of the rule with respect to the discontinuance of the old
method of distribution of the Synodalbericht. The conference is of
the conviction that the tonic effect of the Synodalbericht upon the
' ministry alone would have justified any financial loss incurred by the