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LCMS Convention Workbook St. Louis, Missouri — 1973, Page 357

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354 SPECIAL AND SUNDRY MATTERS

11-17A

To Call English District Board of Directors
to Repentance

WHEREAS, The Nov. 5, 1972, English District Edition of the
Lutheran Witness carried a resolution of the Board of Di-
rectors of the English District adopted at a regular session
at Chicago, IIl., on Sept. 11-12, 1972; and

Whereas, The English District Board of Directors in the
resolution made a slanderous attack on Dr. J. A. O. Preus by
i i i attempts to usurp power” and of “vio-
lating the rights and privileges of the office of President con-
ferred on him by election”: and

Wuereas, The same resolution of the English District
Board of Directors stated, “we reject and repudiate Dr.
Preus’ imposition of his ‘Statement of Principles’ as a rule,

WHEREAS, The English District Board of Directors also at-
tacked Dr. Preus for “flagrant violation of the Bylaw pro-
vision (Section 2: 29) which limits the President's ‘exercise of

WuHerEas, The English District Board of Directors, on Jan.
31, 1973, withdrew their resolution from reconsideration
without referring to their slanderous and unbrotherly state-
ments concerning the synodical President so that this of-
fense still stands as a flagrant and public Violation of the law
of Christian love; therefore be it

Resolved, That The Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod
in convention assembled call upon the English District Board
of Directors and the President of the English District to
apologize to the Synodical President for their intemperate
and unbrotherly language and slanderous accusations; and
be it finally

Resolved, That said apology be carried in the English Dis-
trict Edition of the Lutheran Witness.

BEAUTIFUL Savior LUTHERAN CHURCH
Broomfield, Colo.

Virgil Balke, Chairman

Gordon Bundy, Secretary

Similar:

11-17B

Trinity Ev. Lutheran Church, Bluffs, Ml, George Krusa,
President; Rev, Donald Kroll, Pastor.

11-18

To Thank the Synodical President

WHEREAS, The President of The Lutheran Church — Mis-
souri Synod, the Rev. Jacob A. O, Preus, Ph. D., D.D., has
acted courageously and demonstrated faithfulness to the
Lutheran Confessions, as they are also confessed by the
Constitution and the Resolutions of the LCMS; and

WHEREAs, President Preus has carried out the desires of

false doctrine in a pastoral way; and

WHEREAS, President Preus has received no or little co-
operation in the excercise of his duties from certain boards,
faculties, and other agencies in the LCMS; and

WHEREas, President Preus has not received full or com-
plete support from the District Presidents in following the
mandates of the LCMS; and

Whereas, President Preus has been publicly slandered in
the press, both secular and ecclesiastical: and

Whereas, In the midst of all these trials, sent by Satan,
he has remained Steadfast to the true faith of the Holy Bible
and the Lutheran Confessions; and

Wuereas, His personal and full commitment to the teach-
ings of the Lutheran church has exemplified itself in carry-~
ing out the duties, functions, and obligations of his office;
therefore be it

Resolved, That The Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod
assure President Preus of their prayers of gratitude and of
supplication for his continued perseverance in the true faith;
and be it further

Resolved, That The Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod
also assure President Preus of their gratitude for his pastoral
concern in his attempts to remove false teachers from the
church and of their Support in continuing to carry out such

pastoral discipline. BEavtIFUL Savior LUTHERAN CuuRcH
Broomfield, Colo,
Virgil Balke, Chairman
Gordon Bundy, Secretary

11-19

To Determine an Ethical Question

WHEREAS, The President of the Synod, Dr. J. A. O. Preus,
has been attacked in many publications of the church be-
cause of his investigation of Concordia Seminary, St. Louis,
Mo.; and

WHEREAS, For example, the May 1972 issue of the Cresset
carried an editorial by John Strietelmeier entitled “Ortho-
doxy vs. Fundamentalisny” in which judgment is made that
Dr. Preus “is a fundamentalist" and in which his administra-
tion of his duties imposed upon him by the Constitution of
the Synod is referred to as “his bull-in-a-china-shop treat-
ment of the Seminary"; and

WHEREAS, The Synod at its Milwaukee convention adopted
a statement on ethics Proposed by the Council of Presi-
dents: and

WHEREAs, Publications of the type described above seem
to be in violation of this statement on ethics and seem to be
public attacks upon a brother in the faith: therefore be it

Resolved, That The Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod,
in convention assembled at New Orleans, pass on the ques-

TRINITy Ey, LUTHERAN CHURCH
Bluffs, Ill.

George Krusa, President

Gary Vortman, Secretary
Donald Kroll, Pastor

11-20
To Rule on an Ethical Question

WHEREAS, The Southern Illinois Communicator, official
edition of the Lutheran Witness supplement in the Southern
Hlinois District, on Nov, 5, 1972, publicly condemned the
Fact Finding Committee for “deciding to stir the pot, peev-
ishy condemning Dr. Tietjen”: and

WHerEas, The statement in the Lutheran Witness referred
to by the Communicator was in defense of the Fact Finding
Committee following publication of stringent accusations by
President Tietjen against the committee in the columns of
the Lutheran Witness: and

WHEREAS, The Communicator thereby judges the Fact
Finding Committee without reference to the facts in the case
and without making a response Possible on the part of the
Fact Finding Committee: and

WHEREAS, This type of journalism in the Synod has be-
come common, namely, attacks upon the President of the