# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1944_S275
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: The possibility of Synod guaranteeing or underwriting the

financial commitments which would be involved in undertaking the

above-mentioned task. (A publishing house would hardly under-

take such a project without reasonable assurance that it would be
paying proposition.) ‘

Tue BaRTHOLOMEW County (INnp.) PastoraL CONFERENCE
Aucust E. Brausr, Chairman WALTER ELLWANGER

P.G. Nav Roy E. Guetzow

Epw. HoererKAMP ARVIN 'TWIETMEYER

Louis ScHULENBURG Bernarp L, DANNER
ACTION

Regarding Memorial 713 and-Unprinted Memorial 74, Com-
mittee 8 submitted the following two resolutions, which were
"adopted: .
Wuereas, Great portions of Luther’s writings, while respected
‘. and valuable, are not needed by the Church today; and

Wuereas, Existing translations of portions of Luther’s works,
while incomplete, do already offer some of. Luther’s works in
English; and

Wuereas, It is necessary that only some few more portions of
Luther’s works should be translated into English at the present
time; therefore be it

Resolved, That we consider the translation of the complete
works of Luther into English inadvisable; _and be it further

Resolved, That the General Literature Board and the Board of
Directors of Concordia Publishing House be instructed to make the
question of translations of additional portions of Luther’s works
the subject of further investigation and offer its repoft at the next
Convention. ,

Combining Our Professional. Journals
(Memorial 711) : .

The second annual meeting of the Lutheran Education As-
sociation, assembled in River Forest, Ill, July 6 and 7, 1943, respect-
fully petitions the 39th Delegate Synod at Saginaw, Mich., to
-consider the following memorial:

That Synod respectfully request its President to appoint a
committee to study the possibility and advisability of combining -
our two. professional journals, The Concordia Theological Monthly

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