# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1944_S258
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258 Intersynodical and Doctrinal Matters

The above report and recommendation in the Boy Scout matter.
are approved by the Board of Young People’s Work,

E. L. Roscuxe; Chairman
Martin ROScHKE, Secretary

ACTION
_ Concerning lodges and the Boy Scout question, Committee 7
submitted the following recommendations, which were adopted::

1.. We heartily commend the members of Synod’s Bureau of
Information on Secret Societies, composed of Dr. Paul G. Bretscher, . ;
Rev. O. F. Engelbrecht, and Dr. Theo. Graebner, for the valuable,
services rendered to our Church and encourage them to continue’
in their splendid work..

2. We recommend that Synod authorize the Board of Directors
to. supply the necessary clerical help to carry on this work.

3. Since a concerted effort is made to stimulate declining lodge
membership, and since new lodges are in the process of organiza-

‘tion and undoubtedly will in the postwar period, .such as secret
societies for servicemen’s mothers, etc., we urge all pastors and
officials to be vigilant and to carry out Synod’s resolutions of 1929
and 1932.

4, We recommend Synod’s approval of the joint action of your
Bureau of Information on Secret Societies and Board for Young
People’s Work with regard to Scouting. . ot

5. We recommend that the Bureau of Information on Secret
Societies issue a loose-leaf folder containing pertinent information
on lodges and issue supplements whenever new information is
available and supply all pastors with this material.

6. We also ask all pastors and laymen to gather information
on lodges and transmit such information to our Bureau of In-
formation on Secret Societies. . .