# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1938_S214
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214 Constitutional Matters

order to familiarize itself with the situation and to attempt to work
out a plan of procedure. Since part of Synod’s resolution of 1935
embodied the thought that this committee should confer with duly
appointed representatives of the English District, a communication
to that effect was presented to the English District, whereupon this
District, at its convention in River Forest in 1936, appointed a com-
mittee consisting of Pastors H. P. Eckhardt, Martin Walker, and
Richard Jesse and Messrs. Arth. E. Bergmann, A.C. Schwan, and
Wm. Wehrs.

A joint meeting was held with this committee on June 1, 1937,
at Chicago, during which the most cordial feelings prevailed. After
a thorough discussion of the entire situation the synodical com-
mittee submitted a series of suggestions to the committee of the
English District, which were then made the basis of further delib-
eration and discussion.

The committee of the English District then submitted its report
to the convention of the English District at River Forest, in 1937,
and while the members gave expression to their feeling that the
time had not yet arrived for such an amalgamation, their report
embodied and recommended a number of the points and sugges-
tions under consideration at the above-mentioned joint committee
meetings, to wit:

1, That the question of amalgamation be discussed in the pas-
toral conferences of the English District

a. On the basis of historical development;

b. With a view to the welfare of the whole Synod and the
kingdom of our Savior;

ce. From the economic angle (expenses of conferences, conven-
tions, missions, etc.);

d. With respect to local conditions, hindrances to amalgamation,
and their removal.

2. That wherever possible one of the pastoral members of the
English District committee on amalgamation be invited to partici-
pate in such discussion.

3. That informal regional conferences be arranged in the prin-
cipal centers, to be attended unofficially by the Visitors and a few
other members of both the local and the English District for the
fraternal discussion of this question, with particular reference to
local problems. ,

4. That the brethren of the English District be encouraged to
attend the conferences and circuit meetings of their respective
territorial Districts for mutual profit and for the maintenance and
further development of true Christian fellowship and harmoniou:
cooperation.

This report was adopted by the English District.