LCMS Convention Proceedings St. Louis, Missouri — 1932, Page 126

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178 Proceedings of Thirty-Fifth Regular Convention,

zerschneidet und ihr seine Zugehoerigkeit kuendigt. Und solches muss
geschehen, BEVoR er zum heiligen Abendmahl geht.” (P. 44.)

With regard to possibly exceptional cases the report has the fol-
lowing to say: “Dabei wollen wir nicht sagen, dass es nicht ganz
abnorme Verhaeltnisse geben koennte, weber die zu urteilen nicht
die Sache einer eine Generalregel abgebenden Arbeit ist. Wie da zu
handeln ist, muss dem Gewissen und der Weisheit des einzelnen Pg-
stors anheimgestellt werden.”

While your Committee urgently recommends a thorough study
of the lodge problem by all of our congregations on the basis of Holy
Scriptures, it nevertheless believes that a referendum as requested in
Memorial 406 is entirely unnecessary, for the reason already given.

Your Committee has given the matter all and every consideration
that time permitted. It was in session on the questions submitted five
times and gave all interested parties an opportunity to explain their
position in open meetings. It therefore begs leave to submit to Synod
the following resolutions : —

That the 1929 resolutions of Synod at River Forest, adopted unan-
tmously after thorough deliberation, shall stand unchanged as the
official declaration of Synod.

That we all, congregations, pastors, and officials, earnestly and
conscientiously continue to carry the resolutions of 1926 and 19929
into effect.

We believe that all unprinted memorials are also covered by these
resolutions. ‘

It has been reported to your Committee that the whole lodge ques-
tion has received much consideration throughout Synod and that the
resolutions of 1929 have been applied with blessed results. May God
in His infinite grace grant that we may all abide by His Word and
continue to testify against the evil of lodgism to His glory and the
eternal welfare of many souls purchased with His blood!

Action.
Synod adopted this report with its recommendations.

V. PUBLICATIONAL MATTERS.

Report of Concordia Publishing House.
(Memorial 501.)

The Board of Directors of Concordia Publishing House, in sub-
mitting its due report to Synod, begs leave to state that there have
been several changes in the personnel since the election of 1929.
Mr. Robert H. Leonhardt, for many years president of the Board,
resigned early in 1932, and his place has not been filled. Mr. Walter

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Junghans, now acting president, Mr. R. C. Obermann, and Mr. W. F.
Wischmeyer have another three-year term to serve. Mr. M. J. Roschke
in 1930 took the place of Mr. Geo. Hoerber, deceased; Mr. Oscar P.
Brauer succeeded Mr. Henry Luehrmann, who resigned in 1931. For
these two gentlemen and for Pastor Rud. H.C. Meyer (and now also
for Mr. Leonhardt) successors must be elected at this convention.

Mr. A. A.Grossmann, who for more than five years filled the
position of assistant manager, resigned March 31, 1931. For various
reasons a successor has not as yet been appointed.

We acknowledge with sincere thanks the splendid cooperation we
are receiving from the General Literature Board, the Juvenile Litera-
ture Board, and the Board of Christian Education.

Our financial report cannot be submitted together with these
lines as our fiscal year closes on April 30. As we have done in
previous years, we shall submit this report during the convention as
a supplement.

Our business has suffered in volume and in profitableness during
the past triennium. We have good reasons to be grateful, however,
that our retrogression in these respects has not been as marked as
that in most other businesses. We have been able to pay dividends
to Synod regularly at the rate of $10,000 a month, or a total of
$120,000 for each of the three fiscal years.

We submit for interested perusal the following list of publi-
cations which issued from our presses during the triennium 1929—32.

NEW PUBLICATIONS OF CONCORDIA PUBLISHING HOUSE
During the Triennium 1929—1932.

Arndt: Does the Bible Contradict Itself? Second edition, revised.

Hymn-book, Styles WAR, WIR, WAB, WIB.

Graded Memory Course, Part III, Intermediate and Senior Departments.

Graded Memory Course Cards.

Graded Memory Course Card Record Sheets, First Year; Second Year.

Maier: The Jeffersonian Ideals of Religious Liberty.

Arndt: Siehe, ich stehe vor der Tuer.

Kretzmann (Tract No.110): Lutheran Principle of Indoctrination vs. the
Pedagogy of Modernism.

Krueger (Men and Missions No. VIII): Unto the Uttermost Part of the
Earth.

Kalender, 1930, 1931, 1932.

Statistical Year-book, 1929, 1930.

Hoelter (Concordia Collection No. 13): Sing, O Ye Heavens.

Hahn: From Heaven Above (solo); Savior, I Follow On (solo).

Maier (KFUO Tracts 9—12): Thou Shalt Not Kill with the Tongue;
Dangerous Tendencies in Modern Marriages; Wanted: Better Homes;
Hurdling Life’s Barriers.

Kretzschmar: Stewardship Life.

Kraeft: Religion for Primary Grades in Units of Learning.

Kaeppel: Preludes and Postludes for the Organ.

Kuehnert: Rally Day Program.

Polack (Men and Missions No. VII): David Livingstone.