# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1938_S207
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Constitutional Matters 207

6. During the three years intervening between synodical meet-
ings the Railroad Secretary and his accredited assistants shall,
within the territory of the various passenger associations, seek to
procure for official representatives of the Synod, its missions, etc.,
such privileges as are occasionally granted by some railroad com-
panies.” (1937 Handbook, p. 56.)

L. Corresponding Secretary for Foreign Connections

Finally we recommend that the Ven. Synod resolve to amend
Par. “L. The Corresponding Secretary for Foreign Connections” of
its “Regulations for Officers, Boards, and Committees of Synod,”
so that, when amended, it shall read:

The Board of Directors of Synod shall appoint a Correspond-
ing Secretary for Foreign Connections, who shall, in the name of
the Synod, keep up a correspondence with the Lutheran Church in
foreign countries. The purpose of such correspondence shall be to
establish and maintain an intimate relationship between our Church
in this country and the Lutheran Church in foreign countries.
(1937 Handbook, pp. 56, 57.)

Respectfully submitted by Concordia Lutheran Church of

Maplewood, Mo. Epwin W. Hoserman, Secretary

Emit E. L. Mars, Pastor

Report of Committee 9:

Your Committee No.9 on Constitutional Matters recommends
that the matter contained in J, K, and L of Overture 512 be re-
ferred to the committee to be appointed for the revision of the
Synodical Handbook.

Action of Synod: This recommendation was adopted.

New Edition of “Synodical Handbook”
(Memorial 612)

Whereas the present English edition of the Synodical Handbook
was prepared as a temporary English edition until Synod should
decide to “publish a thoroughly revised new edition of the Hand-
book, in which antiquated regulations are eliminated and the
present amended and clearly worded rulings are properly ar-
ranged and coordinated” (see Preface, pages IV and V),

We, the members of the One-day Conference of St. Louis and
Vicinity, respectfully request the Delegate Synod to appoint a
committee of competent men which shall prepare, after due study
and consideration, a new and complete and authoritative edition
of the Synodical Handbook, containing all the synodical regulations,
properly arranged, coordinated, indexed, and in idiomatic English
form, in which all ‘antiquated rulings are eliminated, all ambiguous