# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1929_S198
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198 Proceedings of Thirty-Fourth Regular Convention

10. Appeal of. Rev. F. w. Seesko,
Report of Committee 212,

by officials of the District as well as by other brethre
and even now upholds, his former position and refuse:

lodge practise of many years’ Standing, a practise whi

Lutheran Witness of October 16, 1928,

The recommendation of the committee is based on the following

1) The Rev. Seesko admits the antichristian character of the

2) The Rey. Seesko admits that it was indeed for t

he express
purpose of giving lodge-members an opportunity to commune that

the constitution of his congregation had been worded to read: “Lodge-
members may not be voting members of the congregation.”

3) The Rey. Seesko admits that he permitted lodge-members to
commune for many years and states that he will continue his prac-
tise of communing lodge-members, regarding them as weak Christians
who are to be borne with indefinitely, to their dying day if necessary,

Action.
The Rev. F. W: Seesko was given Opportunity to make a State-
ment. In this statement he did not deny the facts on which. the

11. Appeal of St. Paul’s Congregation, Baltimore, Md.,
and of Rev. H., Guckenberger.
Report of Committee 21 A.
Your Committee on the appeal of St. Paul’s Congregation, Balti-
more, Md., recommends that a committee be appointed to investigate
this whole matter in the near future and bring it to a conclusion.