Synodical Conference Convention Proceedings St. Louis, Missouri — 1950, Page 125

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Ev. Luth. Synodical Conference of:North America. 1950 125

We therefore recommend that the request to give financial aid
for the founding of a high school in New Orleans be declined.

. Action by the convention: This recommendation was adopted,

We further recommend that the teaching staff at Greensboro
and Selma be encouraged to give a portion of their vacation time
to the procurement of students for the teaching and ministerial
professions.

Action by the convention: This recommendation was referred
to the floor committee considering the Missionary Board’s report
on the schools at Greensboro and Selma.

Report of the Synodical Conference Interim Committee

The Honorable Evangelical Lutheran Synodical Conference of
North America, in convention assembled at Fort Wayne, Ind.

EsTrEMED BRETHREN:

The 1948 Convention of the Synodical Conference adopted the
following report with regard to the reports submitted by the Interim
Committee: oe ;

“Wuereas, The Interim Committee reports that it has not been
able to complete its work; be it

“Resolved, ;

“2. That our Committee be requested to continue to function
until our next convention and that the Presidents of our constituent
Synods be encouraged to appoint additional, advisory representa-
tives to attend their meetings;

“3. That the Committee shall endeavor to complete its work by
the next convention;

“4, That individuals and groups of our Synods be urged prayer-
fully to restudy the doctrine of the Church, in order to obtain the
true Scriptural answer to the questions raised in the reports.”
(Proceedings, 1948, page 144.)

Your Committee has tried earnestly to carry out the instruc-
tions of the convention. That it has not been able to complete the
assignment is due to the fact that the Committee was able to
meet only twice during the past two years and that, in spite of
wholehearted attempts to arrive at complete agreement on the
major points at issue, such ‘attempts have, to the present, been
unsuccessful, A word of explanation is in order: After long and