# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1929_S110
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110 Proceedings of Thirty-Fourth Regular Convention,
IV. CONSTITUTIONAL MATTERs

Intersynodical Matters,
Extract from the Intersynodica] Committee Report

At the outset we would mention the fact that the vacancy in th
Committee was filled by the election of Prof, Theo, Engelder., 6 le
work was prescribed to us in the report of the Examining Committes
for Intersynodica] Theses appointed in 1923, which recommended
certain changes in the theses of 1925. Conferences Were again
resumed with the representatives of Iowa, Ohio, and Buffalo synods
at which our sister Synod of Wisconsin was also represented, The

ditions were also made. A longer Passage was introduced into the
theses Concerning the so-called election in view of faith for the
Purpose of showing that the doctrine covered by that expression jg
not equivalent to the doctrine of election Presented in the Scriptures
and the Lutheran Confessions, The Passage on Chiliasm was algo
intensified by an important addition.

The theses are before Synod for adoption or rejection. We con-
sider the question whether the theses can be adopted to be distine¢
from the question whether we can enter into fraternal relations with
the synods with which we have been conferring. The latter jg at
present excluded by the connections into which, sad to Say, these
synods have entered and the fraternal] relations which they maintain
with Lutherans who are not faithful to the confessions, The theseg
are a matter by themselves, and Synod ought to take action on them.

Extract from the Report of the Examining Committee
for Intersynodical Theses,

After careful examination of the revised theses of August, 1928,
your Committee finds itself compelled to advise Synod to reject these
theses as a possible basis for union with the synods of Ohio, Iowa,
and Buffalo, since all] chapters and a@ number of paragraphs a