# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1935_S262
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

250 Proceedings of Thirty-Sixth Regular Convention,

7. A problem that occupied much of the time of the Board was
the idle-candidate question. Our Committee on Missions gave thig
matter considerable attention, and it was discussed with the College
of Presidents, with representatives of varioug colleges and seminaries,
and with the General Home Missions Board. A committee was ap-
Pointed to bring in recommendations on this matter, this committee
consisting of Pastor Paul Schulz, the chairman of our Oommittee on
Missions: the Secretary of Missions, Rey, F.C. Streufert; and the

was ever conscious of Synod’s instruction to balance the budget during
this triennium. As we understand it, this was to be done by holding
down the expenses to the least possible minimum without impairing
the essential] work of Synod and by bringing the income from the

carried on. That the budget was reduced considerably has been
brought out above. It ig a matter of record that, since the expected

balance the budget in 1939. No special effort of this kind being
made in 1933, we failed to balance the budget for that year. In 1934,
however, the Open-Bible Thank-offering brought in sufficient funds
not only to balance the budget, but to bay off some of the debts re-
maining from previous years,

2. To serve in the Present emergency, but especially in order
that the regular contributions from our constituency might be brought
to a point where they would be sufficient to carry on the work of
Synod without any special collections, the Board, together with the
College of Presidents, appointed a Synodical Finance Committee,
composed of two members of the Board of Directors, two-members of
the Presidential College, and the President of Synod. This com-