# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1941_S282
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

282 Intersynodical and Doctrinal Matters

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the same terminology, With this explanation of our commis-
sioners we fully agree. Since now and then something is considered
as a ‘point of doctrine’ which hardly may be thus called, we are

had a scientific knowledge.’ ”

We need merely repeat here what we stated to the com-
missioners of the American Lutheran Church: “This means, of
course, that the American Lutheran Church has accepted the Brief

d) As to the membership of the American Lutheran Church
in the American Lutheran Conference, concerning which the
Sandusky Resolutions had stated, “We are not willing to give up
our membership in the American Lutheran Conference,” the
Detroit Convention Report says:

“Concerning our relation to the American Lutheran Conference
we concur with the Declaration of our commissioners, saying that
the above-mentioned Resolution of Sandusky ‘is no absolute state-
ment but one conditioned by the future development of the
American Lutheran Conference,’ We entertain the confident hope
that our sister synods in the American Lutheran Conference will

e) As to matters of church practice, the Detroit Convention
Report Says: :