# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1935_S117
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Ev. Luth. Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States. 1935, 105

mendation or approval regarding any secular movement or organiza-
tion, no matter how harmless or even beneficial its program may be.
Accordingly, and for the other reasons hereinbefore mentioned, your
Board does not recommend that the Boy Scouts and their program be
approved by this convention. Your Board believes, however, that our
Church should do whatever it can do by counsel or persuasion to
eliminate evil tendencies from movements that affect our people and
that cooperation (as above defined) with the leaders in the Boy Scout:
movement should be continued.

F. The report for 1939 contained tabulations on the Synod-wide
roll-eall. The preparation of that report was made largely with the
assistance of young people. It. induced. many congregations and
societies to hold reunion services, to reestablish neglected: contacts,
and to keep more accurate records. In view of the value of the Synod-
wide roll-call to our confirmed youth, to the congregations, and to the
Statistical office of Synod we recommend that such roll-calls and re-
unions be made an annual project in every congregation. Incidentally
‘we call attention to the fact that many of our local congregations fail
to develop and use the individual and collective ability of their young
‘people in congregational work.

G. During the past triennium we have aimed to work for a uni-
form mode of collecting, tabulating, and analyzing statistical and
‘other information about young people’s work. There is, however, in
the material sent to us by District committees a good deal of valuable
matter that is not readily adaptable to such simple classification. We
have in mind, for instance, comments and resolutions like the follow-
ing as received from every one of the thirty synodical Districts:
a) pleas for a more general reading of church periodicals and other
matter of positively Christian character; b) continued effort to warn
‘young people against sinful amusements; ¢) increasing interest and
activity in promoting young people’s work by pastors, congregations,
-conferences, circuits, and Districts > d) affiliation with the Walther
League and adoption or adaptation of its program and printed: ma-
‘terials; e) Districts reporting a very considerable number of young
‘people who belong to no organized society; f) unsystematic and hap-
thazard methods in young people’s work; g) resolutions favoring
‘winter conferences and Summer camps; h) educational programs for
‘societies, with special attention to Bible-study. These and scores of
-other comments and suggestions indicate a growing interest in young
‘people’s work; yet we regret to report that the number of young
‘people who are as yet not affiliated with organized societies constitute
-€ challenge that we cannot escape. Some of these young Lutherans
-are members of congregations which have societies. The responsible
leaders of those congregations should by all means make an earnest
-effort to enroll the unattached. Some congregations have continued