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LCMS Convention Proceedings St. Louis, Missouri — 1959, Page 195

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INTERSYNODICAL AND DOCTRIN AL MATTERS 195

Resolved, That the College of Presidents be urged to continue
its examination of this problem; and be it further

Resolved, That synodical and District Officials be alert to the
dangers involved and be instructed to deal properly and promptly
whenever evidence of “Romanizing tendencies” becomes apparent.

Action: This resolution was adopted.

Request for a Declaration by Synod
RESOLUTION 16, COMMITTEE 3
Memorial 616, page 509, Reports and Memorials

Wuereas, The Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod in its reso-
lutions of 1950 pertaining to the Common Confession (Proceedings,
1950, pp. 585—587) spoke of the intersynodical situation as it then
existed and was then understood; and

Wuereas, The Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod in its 1956
convention resolved that the Common Confession, while in har-
mony with Scripture and the Lutheran Confessions, “hereafter .. .
be not regarded or employed as a functioning basic document to-
ward the establishment of altar and pulpit fellowship with other
church bodies” (Proceedings, 1956, p. 505); and

Wuereas, An answer to the question posed by Memorial 616
cannot affect the status of the Common Confession in The Lu-
theran Church — Missouri Synod as defined by the 1956 resolu-
tions; therefore be it

Resolved, That Synod declare to be irrelevant the question
posed by Memorial 616, “Does Synod still hold that the doctrinal
differences between our Synod and the American Lutheran Church
on matters treated by the two committees before our 1950 conven-
tion were settled in 1950?”

Action: This resolution was adopted.

An Overture Relating to Publishing and Accepting
a Statement of Faith
RESOLUTION 17, COMMITTEE 3

Memorial 623, page 517, Reports and Memorials

Wuereas, There are adequate “statements of faith” within the
Synod and the Synodical Conference; and

Wuereas, The wisdom of accepting privately initiated “state-
ments of faith” within the severe time limits of a synodical con-
vention can legitimately be questioned; therefore be it