# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1938_S308
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308 Financial Matters

As much as our limited equipment permitted, we again have
solicited annuity gifts for support and are happy to report that about
$7,000 was received in the last triennium. The donors receive a
liberal interest for life. About the same amount of former gifts
has matured and was added to the endowment funds. This branch
of our work should receive more publicity in our circles.

Our plea and Synod’s repeated recommendation to use the
Memorial Gift (Mindekranz) for the benefit of the Support Fund in
accord with the original idea of that custom was given little con-
sideration by the clergy and laity in our circles, as the acknowledg-
ments of the treasurers indicate. Even at funerals of workers
whose families became an immediate obligation of our Board most
of the memorials were designated for other purposes. May we
again appeal in behalf of the Veteran of the Cross and his widow?
In the majority of cases our congregations and societies heed the
advice of their pastors and teachers in such matters. Appropriate
cards are still offered gratis.

The matter of the personal contributions by the workers
through the conference solicitor has been mentioned in the report
on pensions.

May the gratitude for the unsearchable riches of Christ for
which, under God, we are indebted to the faithful labors of those
men who have spoken unto us the Word of God constrain our be-
loved Synod to “provide honest [liberal, noble] things not only in
the sight of the Lord but also in the sight of men!” 2 Cor. 8:21.

Most respectfully your servants in the Lord,

Tue Board or SUPPORT
F. G. Kuennert, Chairman O.Kots, Sr., Secretary
C.H.Dexninc THEODORE DorERING Watter J. MEYER

Report of Board of Support and Pensions
(Memorial 705)

The Board of Support and Pensions respectfully submits to the
Ven. Synod the following report.

By resolution of the Cleveland Convention your Board of
Support together with five advisory members, appointed by the
Ven. Board of Directors, completed the pension plan which had
been submitted to the convention by a committee appointed in 1932.
With the help of expert counsel sufficient progress was made to
enable the Hon. President and his representatives to submit a pre-
liminary report on the plan to the District conventions in 1936.
During the sessions of the Fiscal Conference at River Forest in

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