# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1944_S350
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350° Appeal Matters

y ACTION

Concerning this statement Synod adopted the following rep
of Committee 20 B:

Your Committee renders no decision on Overture 903 because:

1. It has not been shown to the satisfaction of the Committee’
that the so-called dual membership of Dr. O. H. Pannkoke has any;

bearing on the appeal of the English District from the decision of.
the Board of Appeals.

2. Committee 20B is of the opinion that. this matter is not
properly before Synod at this time, since it nowhere appears that.
the Southern District acted in the matter nor that Grace Church ;

has appealed from the decision of the officials of the Southern
District: :

of the Board of Appeals
(Memorial 902)

Having considered the Opinion of the Board of Appeals in the’
~ case of Dr. O. H. P. against the English District with the desire that. :
this unhappy situation might have been brought to a just and God-
pleasing conclusion, the English District in convention assembled. -
has found for reasons hereinafter set forth that it cannot accept
the Opinion of the Board of Appeals and: herewith humbly petitions’
Synod to have the same set aside.’ We find that the Opinion is
not in agreement with the accepted principles of the Christian
Church, based on the Word of God.

Appeal of the English District from the Decision

I

We call attention to the fact, nowhere referred to in any way
in the Opinion of the Board of Appeals, that Dr, O.H.P. was re-
ceived into membership in a sister congregation of Synod, Grace
Church, Jacksonville, Florida, in 1937 without a transfer from, and
over the protest of, Trinity Church of Oak Park. We call attention -
to the Opinion of the officers of the Southern District (Jan. 11,
' 1938), likewise unmentioned by the Opinion of the Board of Ap-
peals, which ruled that Dr. O. H. P. was a member of Trinity
Church, directed Grace Church to terminate the “membership”
granted, and advised Trinity Church to deal with Dr. O.H.P. in.
the matter. We call attention to the fact that this “membership”
has’ nonetheless been permitted to continue and. has evoked no
expression, ruling, or rebuke from the Board of Appeals, in spite —
of the Opinions of the ‘Southern and English Districts and inspite |