LCMS Convention Proceedings St. Louis, Missouri — 1969, Page 29

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MINUTES OF THE CONVENTION 29

Dr. Karl Holfeld

Dr. Harms took the chair and introduced Dr. Karl
Holfeld, president of the Evangelical Lutheran Church
of Canada. He brought the greetings of his church body
and dwelt on four reasons for altar and pulpit fellowship
between the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Canada
and Lutheran Church — Canada (Missouri Synod). He
received a standing ovation.

Elections

Chairman Bruns reported that the convention had
completed the election of the Vice-Presidents: Dr. Victor
L. Behnken was elected Third Vice-President; Dr. E. C.
Weber was elected Fourth Vice-President; Dr. Paul W.
Streufert was elected Fifth Vice-President.

Communications

Dr. August Bernthal introduced the report of Com-
mittee 10.

The convention resolved to amend the articles of
agreement of Concordia Publishing House (TB 60—61,
10-13). A clause should be added to line 14 on page 61:
“provided by the terms under which the same are
held, be.”

The convention declined the overture that 5% of
Concordia Publishing House’s profits go to Concordia
Tract Mission but encouraged Concordia Publishing
House and the members of the Synod to expand and
support this mission (TB 61—62, 10-14).

It concurred in an overture encouraging the work of
Christian artists (TB 62, 10-15) and urged CPH to con-
tinue its endeavors to depict characters without regard
to race or color (TB 63, 10-16).

The Commission on Church Literature and the Board
of Directors of CPH were asked to continue their study
of the late Dr. William Beck’s translation of the Old
Testament and were encouraged to publish it if feasible
(TB 63, 10-17).

It authorized a study by the Board of Public Rela-
tions of all publications within the Synod, recommenda-
tions to be presented to the 1971 convention (TB 64,
10-18).

Special Ministries and Sundry Matters

Chairman H. R. Frincke of Committee 11 introduced
Dr. Kenneth Ahl, Executive Secretary of the Armed
Forces Commission. Dr. Ahl expressed gratitude for
the support given to the program and told of the work
of this commission. He introduced Chaplain Herbert
Schulze, a Vietnam veteran, who received an ovation
at the conclusion of his message.

The convention accepted the report of the Armed
Forces Commission and urged continued support of its
program (TB 47, 11-06).

Chaplain Robert C. Fenning of the U.S. Navy was
recognized.

No action was taken, for lack of time, on the resolu-
tion to decline Overture 11-11 (TB 48, 11-08).

Announcements
Dr. Roland Wiederaenders announced the schedule
for Wednesday. Dr. Streufert asked for the privilege to

give an affirmative or negative answer to his election
on Wednesday. This was granted.

Closing Devotion
Dr. William Buege led in the closing devotion. His
message was based on John 15:5. He stressed that God’s
Word builds congregations and a congregation of con-
gregations, also the words of Christ, “Without Me you
can do nothing.”
Session 9

Opening July 16, Morning

The Communion service before the session was con-
ducted by Dr. W. Harry Krieger, assisted by eight fellow
pastors. Rev. Robert Zehnder conducted the opening
devotion. The text for his message was 1 John 4:7-11.
He depicted the amazing love of God for man and our
consequent love for each other.

Various announcements were made.

Essay

Dr. R. Caemmerer brought the third portion of his
essay, based on Philippians 1:3-11. To have unity among
churches, he said, you must have the edifying Word,
and relations with all Christians require us to share
this edifying Word, for the Word builds the church.

Church Relations

It was moved and seconded to suspend the rules
and to continue discussion on Res. 3-15 until a decision
is reached. There were 485 in favor of the motion; 369
against it. Since the motion required a % majority, the
motion was lost.

Dr. Harms announced that Dr. Preus declined the
request to make a statement on fellowship; he may want
to do it later. Dr. Harms invoked the blessing of God
on the deliberations and asked the delegates to be tem-
perate in their remarks.

During part of the discussion Vice-President Wie-
deraenders served as chairman. During the course of
the discussion it was resolved to limit each speaker to
2 minutes. At 10:30 a.m. the discussion was postponed
to a later session.

Presentation

Dr. Harms presented Mrs. Warren Hartman of the
Lutheran Women’s Missionary League and Mr. Gus
Melde, the representative of Mr. Thomas D. McDougall,
president of the Lutheran Laymen’s League. Both ad-
dressed the convention briefly.

Special Ministries and Sundry Matters

Chairman H. R. Frincke of Committee 11 asked that
consideration of Res. 11-08 be postponed until later.

The convention encouraged membership in and use
of Concordia Historical Institute, thanked the Aid Asso-
ciation for Lutherans for its help to the Institute, de-
clared.its desire to know more about anniversaries, com-
mended the staff, and accepted the report of the Concor-
dia Historical Institute (TB 218—219, 11-14).

It encouraged congregations to appoint archivists (TB
217—218, 11-13).