# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1941_S875
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

Financial’ Matters 875

) ‘In order to carry out Synod’s instruction in regard to the
ution of the Pension, your Board made extensive use of the
, of our periodicals, and of the personal approach, individually
| through others.
. Frequently we circularized all our workers, supplying them
ith | ‘blanks, all the material, and prepaid reply envelopes and
ards. At the request of pastors and teachers we sent material
ar personal letters to leading laymen, encouraging them to assist
ae enlisting of the congregation, and answered a legion of
sonal letters; we reminded the salary-paying boards. of their
ation toward their men. Our subcommittees also mailed
reulars to the men in their respective Districts. Some did so
peatedly; they addressed groups and individuals. But we also
ave members on the District boards who are not in the Pension.
«2 We kept the subject before all our people by publishing
eports, articles, and announcements in our periodicals, and the
trict men made use of the local publications. ,
_8. We attended as many District conventions as possible,
aking to the delegates and to the sectional conferences of the
ors, teachers, and laymen. We complied with every request
0 ‘send a representative to conferences, circuit and voters’ meet-
s, church councils, to other groups, and to individuals.
“We encouraged the members of: the District boards to do
tsonal work wherever possible and for that purpose supplied
m ‘with the names of the members in their respective Districts.

their respective areas.

We sent representatives to all our seminaries, and they ex-
plained the plan to every graduating class and supplied them
ith the literature. —

We know that the President of Synod and his representatives
spoke most emphatically on the necessity and the benefits of
“the Pension System before all the District conventions and the
group meetings, especially during the past year. Workers admit-
ting that they know little or nothing about Synod’s Pension
- betray their lack of interest in a matter which vitally concerns
themselves and “those of their own house.”

’ b) Three other Lutheran bodies have adopted plans that are

patterned after ours, but none offers the same liberal free death
benefit and the handsome free annuity to retiring veterans.