# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1935_S256
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244 Proceedings of Thirty-Sixth Regular Convention,

As to translations, the committee has freely used all available
translations in order to arrive at a smooth, clear, idiomatic English
version,

At the last Delegate Synod in Milwaukee it was resolved to have
the committee make periodical reports on the progress of its work,
This has been done for our circles in seyerg] issues of the Lutheran
Witness and for the Wisconsin Synod in the Northwestern Lutheran,
This report wag only tentative and requested criticism. Much has
been received and is being given due consideration by the committee,

The committee hopes to make & complete report of its work to the
Delegate Synod of 1938 so that the new hymn-book may at the dis-
cretion of Synod be published by 1939, the centennial year of the

In conjunction with Concordia Publishing House the committee
is studying the problems connected with type, bage arrangement, and
Paper for the purpose of obtaining a readable book, clear, legible,
attractive, and unconfusing, with paper that is noiseless when pages
are turned, opaque, so that the type on the opposite page does not show
through, and not bulky,

In the summer of 1934 q Subcommittee for Liturgies was organ-
ized, consisting of the following men: Dr. P. BE, Kretzmann, Rev, Paul
Sauer, Dr. A. Wismar, Rev. Carl Bergen, Rey. A. Harstad of the Nor-
wegian Synod, and Rev. G. W. Fischer of the Wisconsin Synod, with
Rev. O. H. Schmidt as chairman, This subcommittee ig to concern
itself with that part of the liturgy which is to go into the new hymn-
book. It ig carefully to go over the present material, prepare pos-
sible alternatives in musical setting, additional prefaces, collects, in-
troits, and other prayers, and, in general, to interest itself in liturgical]
matters within our synodical body. The work was subdivided among
different men and &roups, and the subcommittee for liturgics shall
endeavor to serve Synod and the Church, as much 88 may lie in itg
Province and power, in the field of dignified, orderly, and edifying