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LCMS Convention Proceedings St. Louis, Missouri — 1926, Page 86

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Ev. Luth. Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States, 1926: 86

4. Also the local congregation puts the education of the children
in the hands of one person, one board: the pastor. ms

5. The present arrangement of two boards —

a) Is expensive, since members of the boards must travel quite
a distance to attend meetings. Resolutions passed by this meeting
are not binding since one board is independent of the other ;

b) May easily become dangerous since differences of opinion can- .
not be harmonized, each board being sovereign;

¢e) Is not truly fruitful, since only uniform work can properly
promote the entire matter. ,

For manifest reasons, members of such a board might well be
composed of the President of Synod, the Secretary of the General
School Board, a representative from each of the teachers’ seminaries,
and a number of pastors, teachers, and laymen, as Synod may see
fit to determine. ;

In the name and by the authority of the Pastors’ and Teachers’
Conference of Proviso, Ill., assembled at Bellewood, Ill., April 23, 1926,

‘L. H. Puinurps, Secretary.

Report of Committee 5.

; The matter to which this memorial pertains, is an important one,
4 and your Committee has given it careful consideration. Since, how-
g ever, the memorial was received too late to be printed and since there-
F fore it could not be studied by the delegates, your Committee pro-
E. poses that Synod resolve: —

E ‘1. That the different District synods and conferences be urged to
a give this matter careful attention during the next three years;

a 2. That the decision in the matter be postponed to the next session
E of Synod.
a The report was adopted.

III. MISSIONS.

Home Missions in North America.
Report of the Board of Home Missions in North America.

“He that hath My Word, let him speak My Word faithfully.”
ge Thus spake the Lord by the mouth of the prophet Jeremiah, chap. 23,
E v.28, commanding all men who have His Word to preach it faithfully,
; in truth and purity. This is also the business of our Synod; for God
* has graciously given it His pure Word and preserved it to the present
ay. Our fathers were fully aware of this glorious duty of our Synod.

Hence they put forth their best efforts in proclaiming God’s pure
Word especially in our own country, where they had founded their
omes. The work of Home Missions in North America is the oldest