# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1935_S199
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

would be very much in the interest of our Synod and of our Church
in Europe if at certain intervals the chairman of the Board for Home
Missions in Europe would personally visit the field in Europe which
our Synod is subsidizing in order to familiarize himself thoroughly
with the conditions that obtain in these fields.

9. It is to be deplored finally that members of our Church touring

Action of Synod.
These recommendations were adopted, except that under Point 8,
which was rejected. (The appropriations were made subject to the
decision of the Fiscal Conference.)

V. CONSTITUTIONAL MATTERS.

Concerning the Regulations for the

Board of Directors.
(Memorial 402.)

In accordance with the resolution passed by the Synod in the
year 1932 the President of the Synod instructed your Committee on
Constitutional Matters to “examine and revise the existing regula-
tions governing the duties, functions, and powers of the Board of
Directors and to formulate such other regulations as may appear
necessary or advisable, which are then to be submitted to the next
Synod for adoption.” (Proceedings, p. 207.)

and By-laws; they need but be applied to any concrete cases or
questions that may arise. To mention all such cases or questions
and specify the ruleg governing them is not only impossible, be-
cause of the many and varied matters that demand Synod’s atten-
tion, but it would also be unwise because too many rules and regula-
tions rather stand in the way of a board’s efficiency as long as such

Over to it. ;
According to the Constitution of the Synod “the members of
the Board of Directors are the legal representatives of the Synod