# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1944_S236
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236 Intersynodical and Doctrinal Matters

agreement have not met with success;

, Therefore to safeguard our own confessional position, to keep
the unity of the Spirit in our own midst, and to further the cause
of true unity in the Lutheran Church, be it

THe Eastern Pasrorat CONFERENCE OF THE
Sourn Wisconsin Disrricr
Martin W. Strasen, Chairman
J. F, Bozrcer, Jr., Secretary

To Rescind 1938 Church Union Resolutions
(Memorial 605)
Three years ago St. J. ohn’s Ev, Luth. Church of Clinton, Iowa,
informed the honorable Ev. Luth, Synod. of Missouri, Ohio, and
Other States, in convention assembled at Fort Wayne, Ind., June
18—28, 1941, that it finds unacceptable the doctrinal basis for future
fellowship between the Missouri Synod and the American Lutheran
Church which was adopted by the 1938 convention of Synod in
St. Louis, for two reasons, namely, 1) because the resolutions mili-
tate against Scripture, and 2) they are not based on fact. Our
memorial was substantiated at some length but was not accorded
the courtesy of such a consideration or reply by Synod as would
be demanded by the unity of Christian faith and love.

Events since 1938 and 1941 have shown that the St. Louis
resolutions have served the cause of disunity rather than that of
unity, as witness,

. I. The American Lutheran Church has made it clear by its
official resolutions that it is not accepting ‘the three documents
‘contained in the St. Louis resolutions, but that it insists on regard-
_ ing its own Declaration together with Missouri’s Brief Statement
as a sufficient basis for union and that in restricting itself to these

two documents it expects the latter to be viewed in the light. of

‘the former;

2. Our sister synods within the Synodical Conference, the Wis-
‘consin Synod and the Norwegian Synod, have voiced serious ob-
jections to the St. Louis resolutions. The latter has recently, in the