LCMS Convention Proceedings St. Louis, Missouri — 1965, Page 245

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13. WORSHIP, LITURGICS, AND HYMNOLOGY 245

Resolved, That whenever mission or church exten-
sion fund moneys are used by a congregation to build
a church of permanent nature, none of these moneys
of the Synod be released unless ample space for a real
pipe organ is provided in the proposed building; and
be it further

Resolved, That this convention instruct the proper
officials of the Synod to establish a qualified committee
capable of developing an effective program (a) to
instruct our congregations in the proper purchase of an
organ, particularly those congregations anticipating a
building program; (b) to constructively help congrega-
tions, who have already purchased imitation organs,
in various ways to trade their imitation organs for real
pipe organs; (c) to urge all of our congregations who
do not have pipe organs to strive for pipe organs along
with other God-pleasing means of enriching our wor-
ship, through encouraging outright gifts of pipe organs
and establishing funds and drives; and be it further

Resolved, That said committee be instructed to
arrange a means of fairly comparing imitation organs
with pipe organs in such a manner that all may honestly
assess their comparative merits; and be it further

Resolved, That said committee be specifically in-
structed to make use of our official synodical publication,
The Lutheran Witness, to inform our congregations of
pitfalls encountered in organ purchasing and of the
desirability, grandeur, and immortality of the pipe
organ; and be it finally

Resolved, That we follow the above resolutions only
as directed by love for our fellow Christians and our
Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, who gave His all for us.

REDEEMER LUTHERAN CONGREGATION
Joliet, II.
WALLACE F. MISTEREK, Pastor
Donan L. Powers, President
Roserr L, Dickson, Secretary
Francis S. Meyer, Chairman
Committee for Better Music
RacHEL L, SCHALLER, Organist
Cueryi L, Spice, Organist

{13-18 Un]

To Instruct Commission on Worship,
Liturgics, and Hymnology to Suspend
Planning . . . on a New. . . Hymnal
for The Lutheran Church —
Missouri Synod, etc.

Resolved, That The Lutheran Church — Missouri
Synod instruct its commission dealing with liturgics
and hymnology to suspend planning and working on
a new, separate hymnal for The Lutheran Church —
Missouri Synod and to approach the other Lutheran
bodies in America with the prospect of producing
a joint hymnal for all Lutherans in America.

St. MATTHEW’s LUTHERAN CONGREGATION
Brooklyn, N. Y.
Leo STaut, Secretary

[13-19 Un]

To Join with the Major Lutheran Bodies .. .
in the Development and Publication
of a Joint Hymnal and Liturgy

Wuereas, Nothing but good can come from the pub-
lication of one Lutheran hymnal and service book for
all Lutherans, Immanuel Evangelical Lutheran Congre-
gation of Bristol, Conn., respectfully requests the Synod
not to publish its own books but rather do all in her
power to join with the major Lutheran bodies of Amer-
ica and Canada in the development and publication of
a joint hymnal and liturgy.

IMMANUEL LutTHERAN CONGREGATION
Bristol, Conn.

Rosert J. RIEDEL, Pastor

Epwarp SELNAU, Secretary

[13-20 Un]

To Produce Modified Revision
of Present Lutheran Hymnal, etc.

WHEREAS, The Commission on Worship, Liturgics,
and Hymnology makes it clear in its “Progress Report”
to the Lutheran Witness that it assumes it has synodical
mandate to (a) produce a hymnal with major revisions
that will in fact be a new hymnal and (b) publish this
new hymnal before 1970; and

Wuereas, The publication of a hymnal at this junc-
ture will only serve to retard the development of a
hymnal acceptable to all American Lutherans; and

Wuereas, Lutherans holding membership in the Na-
tional Lutheran Council published a hymnal in 1958 that
may be expected to be ready for revision by about
1980; and

Wuereas, The publication of an all-Lutheran hymnal
is highly desirable and should be made an early objec-
tive of all American Lutherans; therefore be it

Resolved, That the Commission on Worship, Litur-
gics, and Hymnology be urged and commissioned to
produce only such revision as is compatible with the
Lutheran Hymnal now in use and that this revision be
published so that it could either be incorporated in
new editions of the present hymnal or as a supplemen-
tary volume to the present hymnal or both.

TOLEDO Concorp1a PastorAL CONFERENCE

James D, Fackuer, Secretary
[13-21 Un]

To Authorize . . . Cooperation
with Other Lutheran Synods to Produce
a Liturgy and Hymnal for All Lutherans

in America

Wuereas, There is a growing desire for cooperation
between the various synods of the Lutheran church in
our country; and

Wuereas, The three major Lutheran synods did in