# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1944_S393
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Miscellaneous Matters 393-

allocate such moneys to the Wartime Missions and Con-
servation Fund as may become necessary and are im
roportion with the general make-up of the synodical:
budget.
That Synod encourage the Fiscal Conference to authorize:
the Board of Directors to inaugurate in the fall of this.
year a special Postwar Reconstruction and Rehabilitation:
~ Fund and that the expenditure of this fund be at the:
direction of the; Board of Directors. We ‘suggest as a
goal $1,500,000. Oo |

. Larger Horizons .
Down through the centuries there have been wars under-
m in the firm conviction that they would “end war,” “abolish
ee and imperialism,” “make the world safe for democ-
“overcome injustice,” “eliminate misery,” and “bring about
ore adequate distribution of the things which belong to all
ankind.” But we Christians know that all these efforts have
‘futile and will continue to be futile until we can put the
rit of Christ into the hearts of men. Only this will make this
orld a better place to live in. To do this, we must ask God for
large measure of His Holy Spirit for our own lives. We must
egin to think not only as individuals but as a Church in terms
larger horizons. We must recapture the Savior’s vision of
orld conquest: “Go ye into all the world.”
_ -Today we see the world as it was in the be-
To. Teach ginning, a chaotic, shifting, seething mass over
reach which there hovers a great darkness. It is through
us that God wants: to move over the face of the
Id with His Holy Spirit to bring order out of spiritual chaos
‘and “to re-create men and women in this world into a faint sem-
‘bl ce of what they were before sin entered. The hour is at hand.
For the
NATIONAL ADVISORY EMERGENCY PLANNING CouNCD..
L. J. Siecx, Chairman
L. Meyer, Executive Director

_ ACTION
- As to the report of the National Advisory Emergency Planning:
Council, Committee 14 submitted the following resolutions, which
sre adopted:

1, Wuereas, The rapidly changing conditions of the war offered