# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1944_S373
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

Miscellaneous Matters 878
ynodical Advisory:
Rev. F: Niedner, Church Extension Board; ,
- Rev. A. Repp, Board of Christian Education;
Rev. E. Roschke, Young People’s Society;
Rev. O. H. Schmidt, Board of Foreign Missions;
Dr. Paul Schulz, Board of Directors;
Mr. A. C. Stellhorn, Secretary of Schools.

Lutheran Laymen’s League:
Mr. H. G. Amling,
Mr. Oscar P. Brauer,
Mr. Oscar Doerr,
‘Mr. T. G. Eggers.

Walther League:
’ Rev. Thomas Coates,

Rev. A. R. Kretzmann,
Mr. Gilbert Muchow,
Prof. O. H. Theiss.

. Lutheran Women’s Missionary League:
Mrs. P. W. Beinke,

Miss Esther Feddersen,

Mrs. Clara Schmitt,

Mrs. F. J. Schuermann,

Mrs. Otis Stellhorn.

| The Church at Work in a World at War
Shifting According to Government statistics about twenty-
America five million United States citizens have moved’ to
oo a different community in the past four years. This
- does not include the approximately ten million in the armed
forces. According to National Lutheran Council statistics about
300,000 Lutherans have moved in this same period of time.
According to a survey made by. our Council about 60,000
members of the Missouri Synod have shifted their place of living
‘since the beginning of the war. Such an internal migration |
affects every phase of life —social, economic, political, and es-"
“pecially also the moral and religious life of the nation. It affects
the work of our Church. — a