# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1938_S249
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Publication Matters 249

2. An unprinted memorial bearing the number 20, requesting
the publication of an elementary church history, has been. taken
care of by the fact that Superintendent Roth is writing such a book,
which will probably be published in fall.

3. Your Committee also wishes to report that the various books
authorized by Synod’s Centennial Committee as well as by Synod
itself are in the making.

4. Wuereas, Every member of Synod should be familiar with
the Augsburg Confession, therefore we recommend that Concordia
Publishing House place it on the market in a penny edition.

Action of Synod: Points 1 and 4 were adopted; Points 2 and 3
were received by way of report.

Report of Young People’s Literature Board
(Memorial 603)

We herewith submit to you a report on the work of the Young
People’s Literature Board as performed by your Committee since
the convention in Cleveland in 1935.

As you know, this Board, when it was created by Synod in
1914, was requested to read and recommend books for the children
and young people of our Church. Later Synod ordered the Board
to consider and recommend also books for adults. Both resolutions
of Synod have been carried out as well as this could be done,
circumstances not always permitting your Board to accomplish all
that it desired to do. But your Board believes that it has aided in
bringing to the attention of our pastors, teachers, and laymen the
danger that lurks in the ordinary run of books crowding the market
today and in suggesting to our many readers such books as they
might use without injury to their moral and spiritual welfare. The
books recommended by your Board are offered for sale by our
Concordia Publishing House, and their titles are published in its
catalog under the special head of “Catalog of Adult and Juvenile
Literature.” In passing, we suggest that in future this title may be
changed to “Catalog of Literature for Young People and Adults.”

Also during the past triennium your Board has met in regular
sessions to consider books and manuscripts submitted for examina-
tion. Owing to depressions and recessions, the special book market
which we serve has been rather quiet, so that your Board has not
read as many books as during the first years of its existence; nor
has it found it necessary to fill the vacancy created by the death of
Rev. A. G. Merz in 1934. Your Board has divided the work among
the four present members and has been able to do whatever task
was assigned to it. Though its work was somewhat limited, the
existence of the Board is still warranted; indeed, in the future the