# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1941_S393
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Miscellaneous 3893

ir should be employed, who is acquainted with this type of

and who is willing to devote his life to it. We now respect-

setition you to grant us, beginning October 1, 1941, an annual

ly of $2,000 to this end. In addition to the regular duties de-

g upon a curator, this individual might also serve as the
Diicial archivist of Synod. We firmly believe that with the employ-

tof a full-time curator and archivist this important work will

laced on a sound and substantial basis.

‘Respectfully submitted,

: Tue Boarp or Directors

OF Concorpia Historicau Institute, St. Louis, Mo.

J.E. Franz, President RicHarp A. JESSE, Secretary

Report of Committee 14

The Committee recommended that Synod grant the $2, 000
ually requested by this memorial.

ction of Synod: This recommendation was adopted.

Report of Committee on a Synod-Wide Woman’s
Organization

(Memorial 903)

Pursuant to a resolution of the Thirty-seventh Convention of
he Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States, which authorized
hé: General President to appoint a committee to survey woman’s
ork in the Church, the committee, consisting of Pastors Rud.
C.Meyer and Fred Wambsganss, Prof. F.H. Schmitt, Mr. J.
hlis, and Mr. Lawrence Rupprecht, met at various times to divest
elf of its duty and herewith submits its report and recom-
ndations.

Your Committee finds, on the one hand, that the women of
the Church offer a potential but heretofore oft-neglected power
‘in the Church. We feel that this dormant power can be enlisted
for the benefit of Synod without sacrificing any of the Scriptural
<principles governing woman’s position in the Church.

Other Protestant church-bodies have long. ago realized the
‘potentialities of the women and for a number of years have spon-
‘sored a nation-wide woman’s organization under the direct super-
‘vision of the respective church-bodies. Among them are the
‘Women’s Union of the Evangelical Church, which recently
‘amalgamated with the Women’s Organization of the Reformed
Church, the Lutheran Women’s Endeavor of the American Lu-