# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1926_S228
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914 Proceedings of Thirty-Third Regular Convention,

Be it resolved that we heartily endorse Overture 611, which rec-
ommends a plan to wipe out the debt in the budgeted treasuries
of Synod.

; Bo it further resolved that an effort be made by all congrega-
tions throughout Synod to encourage each and every member to
contribute at least 25 cents a month for each of the six remaining
months of this year for the purpose above mentioned. However, this
contribution shall in no way affect the collection of the 1926 budget.

Respectfully submitted,
Lurweran LayMen’s LEAGuE.

Qro. Harms, Acting President.
A. G. Braurr, Secretary.

Deficit in Treasury.

“Wuereas, Our Synod has for many years been laboring under
a deficit in its budgeted treasuries; and :

“Wrereas, The work of the Church is seriously being hampered
by this continuing deficit; and

‘Wuereas, This deficit exerts a depressing and discouraging in-
fluence upon our congregations and their individual members, espe-
cially upon such congregations and members as are doing their
utmost to raise the amounts apportioned to them; and

“Wuereas, These deplorable conditions are the result of a lack
of proper application of methods of systematic approach and con-
scientious and thorough follow-up rather than a lack of information
as such; therefore be it

“Resolved, That the Delegate Convention of the Ev. Lutheran
Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States, assembled at St. Louis,
Mo., June 9—18, 1926, be and is hereby petitioned to direct its Fiscal
Office to secure from all congregations that have not paid their 1925
apportionment pledges for the amount which they are in arrears for
the fiscal year 1925; and be it furthermore

“Resolved, To incorporate the jndebtedness still remaining after
these pledges have been deducted in the appropriations of the general
‘convention for the coming triennium; and be it finally

“Resolved, That the Board of Directors be urged to employ
a competent full-time field man, whose responsibility it shall be to
collect the amounts appropriated by the General Body and to prevent
a recurrence of such an indebtedness as the present one.”

We believe that an arrangement of this nature would be prefer-
able to a separate drive to cover the present indebtedness.

Fort WAYNE AND VICINITY
Pastors’ AND TeacHErs’ EasTER CONFERENCE.

R. J. Muetimr, Secretary.