# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1941_S7
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

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_. The Thirty-eighth Regular Convention of the Evangelical Lu-
theran Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States, meeting as the
Twenty-third Delegate Synod at Fort Wayne, Ind., was named the
“Wyneken Memorial Convention,” because one hundred years ago -
Pastor Wyneken here laid the foundation for extensive and inten-
Sive mission-work, making his influence felt in the work of our
Church from coast to coast, Sessions were held in the gymnasium
of Concordia College. Classrooms and halls were used for com-
mittee meetings and exhibits. About four hundred of the delegates
were housed in the dormitories, while the remainder, with the ex-
ception of a few who stayed at hotels, were received into the hos-
pitable homes of the members of our churches in and near Fort
Wayne. Delegates and guests were fed in the college dining-hall
and under a large tent. Besides the preconvention meetings of
several committees, such as the committees that were to report on
colleges, missions, constitutional and intersynodical matters, etc.,
a number of conferences were held in advance of the convention,
Mention should be made of the Educational Conference, which met
on Monday morning, and ‘the meeting of the Lutheran Laymen’s
League on Monday and Tuesday before the convention.

For the opening service old historic St. Paul’s Church was
crowded to capacity, Vice-President Henry Grueber, D. D., ex-
horted the assembled delegates, on the basis of Rev. 3:11, to give
heed and dedicate themselves anew to the faith inherited from our
fathers, The other official services held during the convention were
the Pastoral Service, with Holy Communion, on Friday evening,
June 20, at Zion Church, President G. H. Smukal delivering the
sermon and Dr.F, Brand the confessional address; the Wyneken
Memorial Service on Sunday afternoon in the gymnasium, President
J. W. Behnken, D. D., and Vice-President H. Harms being the
speakers; the Mission Program in the gymnasium on Sunday eve-
ning, the Great Commission being spoken in eleven languages used
in our work, besides the sign language; and the Education and
Youth Services on Tuesday evening, June 24, at Concordia Church
(speaker: President M. W. H. Holls), at Emmanuel Church (speaker:
President I. C. Heinicke), and at Emmaus Church (speaker: Rev.
O. A. Sauer).

Every session of the convention was opened with a brief devo-
tional service, including an address. The first session was opened —
with a key-note address by President J. W. Behnken, D.D., based
“on Ps, 51:7-15, Vice-President Harms served as liturgist in this
service. The remaining sessions were opened by the following Dis-

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