# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1941_S195
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

Reports on General Missions 198

2. That Synod instruct one of its Vice-Presidents — to be desig-
oa) «nated by the President of Synod — and its Secretary of Missions to
e+ attend the meetings of the Board of Governors of the L. L. L. where
the Lutheran Hour affairs are planned and discussed;
: 3. That Synod instruct its Secretary of Missions to attend the
meetings of the Executive Committee of the L. L. L. with the special
‘ object of utilizing the Lutheran Hour in the efforts of the Church
to bring the Gospel to others;
4, That ‘Synod instruct the faculty of Concordia Seminary, as
its official board of censors of publications with respect to doc-
: trines, to include the broadcasts of the Lutheran Hour among the
public declarations which it examines before they are released;

5. That the secretary of Missions be instructed to present a
report on the Lutheran Hour to every convention of Synod, espe-
cially from the point of view of its importance for our missions;

6. That, while Synod recognizes the Lutheran Hour as a most
worth-while enterprise and assists in its promotion as heretofore,
the actual management and control is to remain with the Lutheran
Laymen’s League until it becomes evident that a different arrange-
ment would be preferable.

Action of Synod: Recommendations 1, 2, 3, 5, and 6 were
adopted, and Recommendation 4 was rejected.

Report on the Call of the Cross
(Unprinted Memorial 102)

These are challenging days for the Church. The antireligious
forces in the world are stronger and more aggressive than they
have ever been. Throughout the world the Church is fighting with
her back to the wall. The Church is troubled on every side. It is
perplexed. It is persecuted, and often it is cast down. But it is
not in despair. It is not destroyed. It is not forsaken. In the
words of a recently famous military commander, {We are hard
pressed; we are fighting with our backs to the wall; we have no
course but to move forward,” the Church, frankly admitting and
accepting the desperate situation which it faces, confronted by
modern paganism and materialism on every side, sends forth to
all its members the inspiring challenge of the Call of the Cross.

In the words of the committee, the goal and the objective of
the Call of the Cross is:

a. To create, through the Word of God by the power of the
Holy Spirit, a greater missionary enthusiasm in our Church;

b. To revive in the hearts of our people the spirit of missions
which animated the early Christians;

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