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LCMS Convention Proceedings St. Louis, Missouri — 1926, Page 192

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142 Proceedings of Thirty-Third Regular Convention,

2. Two young men of the Finnish Synod are preparing for the
ministry at our inatitutions, one at Springfield, the other at Bronx-
ville. Others are in prospect.

3. Concordia Publishing House was requested to permit a transla-
tion of the small Bible History, and the American Lutheran Publicity
Bureau was urgently requested to issue also Finnish tracts. Both
agreed to comply with the requests, the Publicity Bureau on condi-
tion that the receipts will justify the undertaking.

4. One Finnish pastor has purchased a small printing-press with
the intention of printing and distributing a number of our tracts.

5. The members of your Committee were asked by mail for expla-
nation and advice. In a difficult congregational affair the advice of
the entire committee was desired in the presence of the pastor of
the congregation and its president.

In September, 1923, the practical question of woman’s vote in
the congregations and some other matters were discussed with the
proper committee of the Finnish Synod. .Since we understood no.
Finnish and one member of the other party. understood no English,
while a second member understood English but inadequately, the
negotiations were stiff and unsatisfactory. We therefore agreed to
continue the negotiations by mail.— Dr. Dau’s opinion on woman’s
vote in the congregations was translated into Finnish by Rev. Wege-
lius, of Finland, but remained unprinted owing to lack of money.
An English translation by Dr. Dau appeared in our Publishing House.

Further negotiations were interrupted by the following resolu-
tion of the Finnish Synod, June, 1924: “1. That negotiations for the
union with the Synod of Missouri be discontinued and the negotia-
tions dropped. 2. The ceasing of negotiations for union is not to
be construed as a severing of friendly relations between these congre-
gations [synods].”

At the synod in question, which convened in Port Arthur, Can.,
no representative of our committee was present. According to the ©
expressions of individuals, peculiar conditions as well as the eireum-
stance that many harbored the erroneous opinion that we sought an
organic union of the two synods, prompted the resolution. We are
reliably informed that many have changed their opinions, and the
friendly relations and negotiations have remained unchanged. We
are therefore of the opinion that our Synod ought to retain a com-
mittee for this purpose, since we may hope that in time complete
unity can be attained between the two synods.

: Action.

On recommendation of Committee 18 Synod resolved to continue
on our part a committee for further negotiations with the Finnish
Evy. Luth. National Church of America, so that under God’s blessing
complete unity between the two synods may be achieved.