# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1926_S249
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Ev. Luth. Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States, 1926. 985

Appeal of Rev. C. F. Rittmann.
Report of Committee 19.

; We have heard and carefully weighed the evidence in the case
of Student Rittmann, submitted by both sides, and find that the
faculty and the Board of Control of our Fort Wayne College, as well
as the Investigating Committee, consisting of the President of Synod
and the President of the Central District, which investigated the case
upon request of the father, dealt with, and disposed of, the case in
a God-pleasing and just manner and that the penalty imposed is by
no means too severe. We therefore recommend that Synod dismiss
the appeal as untenable.
This report was adopted.

Report of the Committee on Church Architecture.
(German Report, p. 328.)

The Committee on Church Architecture was appointed at the
1923 meting of the Delegate Synod, at Fort Wayne. The committee
is composed of two practising architects, one builder, and two pastors.

Applications. —To date 424 applications have been received by
the secretary of your Committee from pastors, congregations, and
building committees. The vast majority of these have been in regard
to the building of churches. A few have been in reference to schools,
the enlarging or remodeling of churches, the purchase of church
organs, sanctuary furnishings, memorials, altar hangings, and church
windows.

These applications have involved a large amount of correspon-
dence. In some instances as many as thirty or forty letters have
been exchanged during the progress of a building project.

Activities. —In addition to answering a large volume of cor-
respondence, members of your Committee have held personal con-
ferences with building committees or other representatives of 42 con-
gregations. Stereopticon lectures have been given in 24 different
places. Blue-prints have been reviewed and written suggestions
given in 53 instances and verbal suggestions in perhaps a score of
other cases.

The Bulletin. — A small, four-page bulletin, entitled Lutheran
Church Art, has been published. Twenty-four issues have appeared
to date. The primary object of this bulletin is to cut down the
large amount of correspondence necessary. Each bulletin discusses
some question frequently asked by congregations about to build and
also contains other matter pertaining to the building of churches or
the conducting of church services. It is possible in a great many
cases to supplement our letters to applicants with a number of back
numbers of this bulletin, thus saving a large amount of typewriting.