# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1938_S215
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Constitutional Matters 215

Your Committee believes that the report of the committee of
the English District adopted by its convention in 1937 embraces
points and recommendations which might well be considered a fair
and also a practical program of procedure and that this program,
carefully and faithfully followed, should eventually and as a nat-
ural outgrowth of developments lead to the realization of the goal
in mind under the grace of God and with due charity to all parties
concerned.

Believing that Synod will share its gratification at the evi-
dences of good faith and of progress which are at hand, your Com-
mittee recommends that Synod continue to have a committee which
is to serve in this matter of amalgamation of the congregations of
the present English District with their respective geographical

Districts. Respectfully submitted,

F. J. LANKENAU, Chairman WALTER H. Loser
O. H. Scumipt, Secretary W. C. DicKMEYER
J. H. DecKMAN ,

Report of Committee 9:

Your Committee first quotes from the Proceedings of the
Cleveland Convention, p. 201. Committee 15 reported:

“Wuereas, the reason for the formation and existence of
a separate English District, namely, the language, no longer exists
because practically all other Districts of Synod are carrying on
their work exclusively in the English language and there now
exist more than 1,400 congregations outside of the English Dis-
trict that work exclusively in English; and

“WHEREAS, an amalgamation will make for closer fraternal
relations and contacts among our pastors and congregations and
result in a more closely knit synodical body and firmer structure
of the whole organization, tending toward consummation in higher
degree of some of the aims for which Synod was organized and for
which it conducts its work today, and also will make for the
saving of much time and money; and
_ “WHEREAS, the matter of amalgamation has been before Synod
and has been thoroughly discussed repeatedly ever since 1923;

“Therefore your Committee is of the opinion that the time
for the amalgamation of the congregations of the English District
with other Districts has fully arrived and that such amalgama-
tion will be most expedient and salutary for both the English
District and for other Districts of Synod.

“Your Committee therefore recommends that the President of
Synod appoint a committee to confer with duly appointed repre-
sentatives of the English District and work out with them an