# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1941_S320
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

320 Publication Matters

commentary, urged by the Praesidium of Synod, is of a magnitude .;<
precluding the competition of another effort.

The commentary project has been studied for one year. The
Literature Board presents an overture, together with suggestions
for procedure, for the consideration of this convention, on the
commentary,

of long standing. Other Projects on the docket of the Board as
of February, 1941, include: a Text-book on Homiletics, by
Dr. J. H.C, Fritz, to appear also as an item in the Concordia Pulpit
series; a Manual for the Instruction of Adult Catechumens, a co-
operative project in charge of a Detroit committee; a Lutheran
Book of Prayer, to appear in various editions; and a revised reprint
of Dr. Engelder’s articles on “Reason or Revelation?”

A number of manuscripts, conference resolutions, and other

communications to the Board indicate a wide-spread interest and

Scope remaining the same.

The Board has also during the past triennium endeavored to
operate under a plan which considers synodical literature as
a-whole and aims to meet the Church's need under the impact of