# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1941_S15
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President’s Report ‘18

of bringing physical relief to orphaned missions through our own
missionaries and through some non-Lutheran agencies.

Your President was called upon to interpret the resolution con-
cerning the housing of Synod adopted at the convention in 1938
After consulting with the Convention Committee in Fort Wayne,
it was deemed advisable to request all congregations throughout
Synod, with the exception of the congregations in Fort Wayne and
vicinity, which contribute a greater amount, to contribute 1% cents
per communicant member as was done at former conventions. This
convention will determine what course is to be followed for the
housing of future conventions.

During the past triennium a number of professors were again
elected. There were no new professorships created except those
allowed by Synod itself at its former convention. The election of
new professors merely filled vacancies caused by deaths or resig-
nations. Three professors are still to be elected within the near
future. For obvious reasons, your President advised postponement
of election until after the convention has acted upon certain pro-
posals of the Board for Higher Education.

Permit me to call Synod’s attention to the fact that in 1947, God
willing, we shall celebrate the centennial of Synod. In 1847 Synod
was organized in St. Paul’s Church in Chicago. It would be well for
this convention to take the necessary steps toward the election or
appointment of a committee to prepare for a fitting and God-pleas-
ing celebration of this great event in our Synod’s history.

In the performance of his duties, your President attended many
meetings of boards and committees, visited a number of con-
ferences and conventions, and, as is to be expected, attended to an
extensive official correspondence.

In a real spirit of thanksgiving to God for His benign blessings
and His unmerited grace, we should take cognizance of the fact
that thé good heavenly Father has abundantly ‘blessed our beloved
Church also with numerical growth. Through the fine work done
by our pastors and people, many adult accessions can be recorded.
These, added to the number of children, confirmed, have very sub-
“stantially increased our numbers. Today, by God’s grace, we have
- far more than 900,000 communicants. In fact, the real figure would
. likely approximate the 1,000,000 mark. Let us thank God for these
blessings and pledge ever greater consecration for ever more aggres-
‘sive work in His kingdom to lead more blood-bought souls to our
blessed Redeemer.

In this connection a word of commendation is in place for our-
- missionaries also in foreign fields, who under the severe handicaps
“ef present-day world conditions have labored faithfully and
courageously. Let the Church at home never forget to ask God for