# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1935_S114
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

102 Proceedings of Thirty-Sixth Regular Convention,

printed Memorial 32), be referred to the Board of Christian Educa-
tion with the instruction that these recommendations be studied care-
fully and that a report and, if it is deemed advisable to establish such
a fund, also a detailed working plan be submitted to the next con-

vention. Action of Synod.

This report with its recommendations and resolutions was adopted
by Synod.

Ill. YOUNG PEOPLE’S WORK.

Report of Board for Young People’s Work.
(Memorial 202.)

The Board for Young People’s Work herewith submits the report
of its activities during the triennium, 1932—1935. Reelected in 1932,
the personnel of the Board has remained unchanged during the
present tenure.

The summer months excepted, the Board has held regular
monthly meetings and several special conferences with representatives
of other organized groups. Such special meetings included a rather
regular attendance at meetings of the Walther League Executive
Board, representation at the annual conferences of Walther League
district presidents, a discussion with Dr. R. Kretzschmar regarding
a plan for “synodizing” all young people’s work in the Synod, and
a conference called to discuss the merits of a proposed memorial to
the present convention.

Although the direction and supervision of young people’s work is
primarily and chiefly the duty of the pastor and his congregation,
your Board has been commissioned to serve as a unifying and co-
ordinating agency. We have, however, not confined our interests and
activities to the functions of a mere clearing-house. Our work is
guided and determined by numerous, but not unrelated, objectives.
All of them together contribute to the solution of our chief problem —
the conservation of youth. We have made a diligent and conscien-
tious effort to discover the nature and the variety of harmful in-
fluences that affect and afflict our young people as loyal and con-
secrated members of the Church and as members of society. We
have encouraged and suggested a more intelligent and more intensive
use of measures designed to combat and counteract the baneful in-
fluences that affect and afflict our young people as loyal and con-
sistently made use of the means at our disposal to urge pastors and
congregations to establish and maintain young people’s societies.
With the exceptionally fine cooperation of the District committees we
were able to gather and disseminate valuable suggestions and much