# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1944_S395
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

. Miscellaneous Matters 395.
REAS, Many of the prisoners of ‘war: are of the. household

HEREAS, The preaching of the Gospel has been. of great com~
the men in prison; and

VueREAS, The work ‘among the prisoners of war has been
ally approved by those if charge of the camps; there- —

romoting spiritual work by printed and spoken word among
soners of war;
That we urge the Council to be alert for opportunities to

h.the Gospel to those who for military reasons are deprived
neir liberty.

. Report of Concordia Historical Institute
(Memorial 1002)

‘With sincere thanksgiving to the Lord of the Church, we are
‘to report to. your venerable body that the work of our Insti-_
s ‘made further progress during the ‘past triennium.
‘Many members of Synod have sent us items of historical in-
est; such as congregational histaries, congregational constitu-
, documents, letters, conference minutes, journals, diaries, etc.
e gradually getting our catalog up to date. We have been
to assist students of church history by making our collection
lable to them for their special field and by helping them to
in material from other sources.
Concordia Seminary has again assigned a room to us for the
ing of our collection, a service for which we are ‘grateful, as
1€ conditions of the times have made it impossible for us to carry
our building program for a museum building of our own. We
e hopeful that we shall be able to build soon after the war.
li -be of interest to your venerable body to know that in addi-
the $35,000 which was turned over to us from the Louis
altke estate for the building of a Waltke Memorial Museum,
-L. H. Waltke and the children of Mr. Waltke have contributed -
),000 to-our Institute, which sum we have added to our build-
; fund.
We did not make use of the $2,000 per annum allowed by:
enerable body three years ago for the purpose of employing
full-time curator until in November, 1943, at which time we
oyed the Rev. Dr. Karl Kretzmann, formerly “pastor at
e, N.J. Through our curator and with the co-operation of
Librarian of Concordia Seminary we are planning the estab-