LCMS Convention Proceedings St. Louis, Missouri — 1932, Page 242

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“249, Proceedings of Thirty-Fifth Regular: Convention,

After careful deliberation your Committee has come to the con-
_clusion that the regulations of the Board of Support should not be
changed and that this Board should, as heretofore, serve to provide
help only for superannuated Veterans of the Cross and for those who
have resigned on account of illness and for their dependents or their
widows and orphans. Your Committee therefore recommends to
Synod : —

1. That all such cases of need as merit Synod’s assistance and yet
. do not specifically come within the scope and sphere of the operation of
the Board of Support or any other Board of Synod be referred to the
Board for General Relief;

That the rules and regulations for the Board of General Relief be
-hereby construed as applying to all such cases.

_ 2. Your Committee recommends that the income accruing to the
-Board of Support from the Endowment Fund should under no con-
sideration be withheld from this Board and that no part of it should
_be diverted to other causes and therefore recommends further that the
sum accruing from the Endowment Fund should not be included in
the budgeted receipts of Synod.

3. In respect to personal contributions your Committee would urge
the patsors, professors, and teachers to continue to make their personal
contributions to the Permanent Support Fund until some other plan
of support is put into operation.

4. We wish to call attention to the custom of memorial donations
and urge the use of memorial wreaths for the benefit of this treasury
in accord with the original idea of this custom.

Synod adopted these recommendations.

Obligation of Children of Pastors and Teachers
in Need of Support.
(Memorial 612.)

Wuereas, There appears to be a lack of clarity and unanimity
of opinion in the various Districts as to the proper interpretation of
the policy of Synod with regard to the obligation of adult children
of those in need of support; and

Wuereas, Such a condition may result in false expectations re-
garding future support; and

Wuereas, Scripture requires that such children as are able to
support their parents should be admonished to do so; therefore be it

“Resolved, That the Ontario District, in convention assembled at
Ottawa, July 7—12, 1931, memorialize the synodical convention as-
sembled at Milwaukee to define the obligation of adult children to
such parents as receive, or have applied for, support and to devise
effective means whereby the obligation can be impressed upon such
children. AuFreD Dasuner, Secretary.