# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1944_S243
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Intersynodical and Doctrinal Matters 2438

; The’ aim of the present overture is to have this disagreement
a ‘our midst thoroughly. examined and settled before any further

efforts are made toward. union with the American Lutheran Church.
“A definite decision on the question at issue can be arrived at,
because the objections raised against the proposed union basis are
mot. based on unfounded assumptions and vague suspicion, but on
lefinite proofs taken from careful study of official documents which
eveal the twofold sense hidden in the Chicago Theses and from
ublic utterances made: by spokesmen of the former Ohio and
ja Synods.
_ The fact that the A. L.C. Declaration is doctrinally in perfect
“agreement with the Chicago Theses is not denied by anybody either.
in.the A. L.C. or in the Missouri Synod. ,
The task of carefully studying and examining the material
which has to be. investigated cannot very well be accomplished
during the short period of a very busy convention. For this reason
the undersigned requests the venerable Synod to appoint a com-
mittee for the purpose of thoroughly investigating and studying the
objections which in 1929 led to the rejection by the Missouri Synod
of the Chicago Theses and which also apply to the A. L. C.
Declaration.

The undersigned is ready to submit the necessary material to

such a committee. J. BuencEr, Pastor em.

Letter to the American Lutheran Church
(Memorial 613)

. WHEREAS, Consciences are involved in the rejection or ac-
. ceptance of any doctrinal statement;

Wnereas, The right interpretation of the ‘Declaration of the
American Lutheran Church can only be given by the American
Lutheran Church itself (any effort on.the part of the Synodical
Conference to reach unity on the acceptance or rejection of the
Declaration without the interpretation of the American Lutheran
Church will result in. added confusion and strife);

Wuergas, our Committee on Doctrinal Unity has encountered
many difficulties in their negotiations with the commissioners of
the other synods of the Synodical Conference and also those of the
- American Lutheran Church (cp. Lutheraner, Aug. 10, 1943, p. 247,
“and Lutheran Witness, Sept. 14, 1943, p..315);

We therefore petition Synod to send the following open letter
or a similar open letter to the American Lutheran Church for their

official action (this mode of procedure has met with the approval