# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1932_S135
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196 Proceedings of Thirty-Fifth Regular Convention,

5. That Synod continue its work through its Juvenile Literature
Board and support it by proper suggestions and advice.

6. Lastly, since all good in every way must come from God, the
gracious Giver of all good gifts, let us include in our prayers also the
earnest petition that God may keep our young people from worldliness,
indifference to His Word, and carnal security and satiety, so that His
Holy Spirit may not be grieved, but that He may continue His
beneficent work in and through them to the praise and adoration of
Him who has purified them with His blood. Amen.

In the name of
Tue JUVENILE LiteRATURE Boarp.
J.T. Muewier, Chairman.
Georce Luecke, JrR., Secretary.

Resolutions of Committee 17 :—

Resolved, That the Juvenile Literature Board be encouraged to
continue its work along the lines of the recommendations adopted by
Synod in 1929;

That the committee be empowered to change its name to one more
expressive of its activities.

These resolutions were adopted by Synod.

Reducing the Number of Church-Papers.

Memorial 507 of the Kansas District advocated the appointment
of a committee which in conjunction with the various editors was to
consider a plan of uniting the more important of our church-papers
into one official German and one English synodical publication, and it
also proposed that District papers be asked not to trespass on the field
of the official church-papers of Synod.

Memorial 508 of the North Wisconsin District proposed : —

First, that Synod authorize the consolidation of church period-
icals;

Secondly, that the College of Presidents be given the order and
power to carry out this resolution, working out the problem in the
manner that suggests itself as the most feasible; .

Thirdly, that the columns of Synod’s periodicals be open to digni-
fied and honest advertising.

Memorial 509 submitted the following resolution : —

Wuereas, The Synod is at present publishing a number of
periodicals; and

Wuereas, The contents of some of these periodicals frequently
overlap; and

Wuereas, The Ontario District has gone on record as favoring
a merging of some of these periodicals; therefore be it

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Resolved, That the Ontario District, in convention assembled at
Ottawa, July 7—12, 1931, memorialize the Delegate Synod, in con-
vention assembled at Milwaukee, Wis., in June, 1932, to take such
merging of periodicals under careful advisement.

Commitiee 17 recommended to Synod to resolve that at its urgent
recommendation the contents of local papers (parish, District, ete.)
present chiefly the necessary local information and that none of these
papers take the place of our synodical publications.

This resolution was adopted by Synod as well as the further rec-
ommendation that the College of Presidents be authorized to consider
ways and means of bringing about a possible consolidation of various
church-papers for adults; also to have an investigation made of the
possibility of advertising in our church-papers.

Our Juvenile Church-Papers.
(Memorial 510.)

Recognizing the importance of church-papers in the cause of
Christian education, your Board of Christian Education has made
a close study of our present periodicals with a view to possible im-
provements in concentration upon a smaller number of periodicals
and a more unified policy for our official church-papers.

After careful consideration by the Board of Christian Education
the Ven. President of Synod appointed a special committee to study
the question further. After several meetings of this committee a meet-
ing was held with seven editors of our present periodicals. In this

' meeting it was resolved that an overture be submitted to Synod.

I. A Few Maxims.
1. Reading of books and periodicals constitutes an important

- factor in education. 2. Ours is a “magazine-reading” age. 3. Reading
of salacious or merely secular literature constitutes a serious tempta-
« tion to our present childhood, youth, and adults. 4. Reading of
e church-papers is a potent factor in Christian education. 5. A desire
x: for, appreciation and proper use of, church-papers is usually the result
of training in early youth. , 1

II. The Present Situation.
A. The demands for Sunday-school weeklies are increasing in

‘number and urgency. 1. Most of these demands are pleas of self-

efense against sectarian or undesirable weeklies. 2. In many of these
equests the possibilities and advantages of well-edited Sunday-school
‘weeklies are pointed out. 3. Our parochial schools can make excellent
‘use of a well-edited church-school weekly, written for specified grades,

: to offer continuous instruction on the work of our Church.