# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1938_S11
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President’s Report 11

Eastern District. Appropriate resolutions will be presented to the
convention later.

According to resolutions of the last convention your President,
in conjunction with the Vice-Presidents, appointed Synod’s Lit-
erature Board and adopted a set of rules and regulations to guide it
in its activity. The Committee on Higher Education, which will
render a very comprehensive report to this convention, was ap-
pointed in a similar manner. This holds true also of the committee
which met with representatives of the U.L.C. and the A.L.C.
Their report to the convention is in the hands of our delegates.

The convention at Cleveland instructed the President and the
Vice-Presidents to appoint a committee which should investigate
thoroughly the question of calling men into the service of chaplain-
cies in the Army and Navy and, if this could be done without
violating our principles, then to appoint also an Army and Navy
Commission for Chaplains. This was done, and the first report of
this commission is before our convention.

According to instructions a special committee was appointed to
make a survey of stewardship and missions throughout Synod. The
report of this committee is also in the hands of our delegates and
will receive due consideration.

Another committee which was appointed according to a resolu-
tion of Synod is the Centennial Committee, which presented the
plans for a proper celebration of the centennial of the Saxon immi-
gration. Many of the features of our present convention, of next
year’s District conventions and celebrations throughout Synod are
in conformity with suggestions offered by this committee. This
holds true also of articles in our periodicals and of books which will]
appear for adults and for children to acquaint our people with the
interesting and fascinating history of our Synod and with the
blessed heritage which has come to us from our fathers. Let us be-
come better acquainted with the plans outlined by them and carry
them out during the coming year.

With the approval of the College of Presidents your President
appointed the Rev. F. C. Streufert as Executive Secretary of
Missions.

Since the convention at Cleveland emphasized the great need
of better training for our Sunday-school teachers, your President
appointed a special committee to study this matter and to prepare
material for a more thorough and uniform training of our Sunday-
school teachers. This committee pursued its task with marked
efficiency and devotion to duty. Some of the splendid material is
now on the market.

One of the express wishes of our last convention for the past
triennium was that special emphasis be given the so-called “re-