LCMS Commission on Constitutional Matters — Minutes St. Louis, Missouri — OCTOBER 3, 1963, Page 5

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the Committee present, suggestions received from Pastor Elmer Kettner,
Editor of ADVANCE magazine, and proposals offered by a special committee

representing the Northern Illinois Pastoral Conference were also reviewed,

142, Articles Ito V were discussed and adopted during the balance of
the afternoon session.

DINNER RECESS

EVENING SESSION
143, Article VI ''Duties of Officers", up to paragraph "Board of
Trustees'' occupied the attention of the members of the Committee during the

evening session.

144. It was agreed to meet again at 8:45 o'clock in the morning.
EVENING ADJOURNMENT
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4,
1963
MORNING SESSION

145, The meéting was opened with prayer offered by the Secretary.

146, The Chairman recalled that the Cleveland Convention had passed
a resolution (6-40, page 132, 1962 PROCEEDINGS) suggesting that some sec-
tions in the Handbook would more appropriately fit into a ''Manual of Synodical
Operations''; the desirability of having such a Manual had been made the

responsibility of the Committee on Constitutional Matters.

147. The Committee now gave attention to a communication received
from the Synod's President, Dr. Harms, in which he called attention to a con-

flict in the regulations governing accounting procedures as printed in the