# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1935_S201
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

188 Proceedings of Thirty-Sixth Regular Convention,

on Legacies were transferred to the Board of Directors ag soon ag
this had been called into existence, a number of special rules and
regulations were adopted with reference thereunto; but also all of
these refer only to the business and financia] matters of the Synod.
(Synodical Handbook, pp. 33—39.)

If the extension of the work of the Synod should call for addi-
tional desirable or necessary rules and regulations, the Board of

all the business affairs of the Synod.

In order to Present the case very clearly, it may be well to add
two comments, partly, to keep the Synod and its members from com- ~
mitting such matters to the Board of Directors as do not come within
its sphere of activities, and, partly, to keep the Board of Directors
from aceepting and acting on such matters as are none of its concern,

According to the Constitution of the Synod, the President has
the official supervision regarding the doctrine and the administration
of all the officers of the Synod, of all persons employed by the Synod,
of the individual Districts of the Synod, and of the District Pregi-
dents. (Article XI, B, Synodical Handbook, p.6.) It is therefore in
the very nature of the case that during the time when Synod is not
in session the President is the responsible party to whom all questions

is the President of the Synod must at any time be submitted to the
Board of Directors. This Board should concern itself only with the
business and the financial matters of the Synod. All other matters
Properly demand the attention of the President in his official capacity
as the President of the Synod: matters concerning doctrine, admin-
istration, the relation of the Synod to other church-bodies, cases of
synodical discipline, protests, ete. It ig of importance that all mem-
bers of the Synod carefully observe this distinction. The Board of