LCMS Convention Proceedings St. Louis, Missouri — 1929, Page 119

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gv. Lath. Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States. 1929. 119

Bureau, consisting of Prof. Th. Graebner, of St. Louis, and
+ 0. F. Engelbrecht, of Milwaukee. It recommends that the
Pas committee be continued.”
1. Finally we recommend that Synod shall not appoint a com-
to inaugurate & special campaign as requested in Overture 408,
«ace the purpose of the suggested campaign will be accomplished if
the resolutions of 1926 are put into practise. We also believe that
Overture 409 is covered by these resolutions.

In conclusion permit us to state that your Committee finds that
the Committee oD Lodges appointed in 1926 worked with intense
earnestness and gelf-sacrificing devotion and that the Lodge Informa-
tion Bureau has painstakingly gathered very valuable information
available for use by all members of our Synod. They, therefore,
deserve 4 vote of thanks from Synod, which we herewith recommend.

pation

Action.

The report of Committee 15 was discussed in five different
sessions.

Resolved to reaffirm the resolutions on the lodge adopted by
Synod in 1926 (lines 4—32).

Tt was moved and seconded to adopt Point 1 of the Committee
Report. This motion was amended to include in one vote also Points
9, 3, and 4. It was then moved and seconded to amend Point 1 of
the Committee Report so as to yead: “That Synod hereby declare
that it is contrary to Scriptures to administer Holy Communion to
members of lodges ; therefore it is, shall be, and must be the practise
of our Synod to refuse Holy Communion to members of lodges.
The following day Rev. Wm. J. Single, who had offered the amend-
ment, and Mr. Zorn, who had seconded the amendment, presented the
following signed statement: “When offering my amendment yester-
day, I referred to secret antichristian societies, or lodges, such as
the Masonic order and the Odd-Fellows, and with respect to them my
stand is unaltered. The chairman of your Committee informs me
that the report submitted for your adoption is intended to cover all
lodges generally. I am not ready to apply the amendment in such
a broad way, while I am quite ready to subscribe to the committee’s
report. Under the circumstances I withdraw the amendment if Synod
will accept this statement and incorporate it in the record of these
proceedings.” No objection being voiced, the amendment was declared
withdrawn.

The motion to vote separately on Points 1, 2, 3, and 4 was lost.

Resolved to strike from the second sentence of Point 3 the
word thus.

Resolved to adopt Points 1, 2, 3, and 4, one negative vote being
recorded. Since the explanation of the negative vote seemed to indi-