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LCMS Convention Proceedings St. Louis, Missouri — 1938, Page 322

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822 Miscellaneous Matters

to make at once in Chicago. Dir. Brand left for Chicago on this
mission the same night. :

' “September 2. Dir. Brand met Dr. Brux at his residence in
Chicago, as his letter of September 3 to Dr. Brux shows, informed
him of the recent grant of $3,000, and that he had come to discuss
the steamship reservations in order that the bookings might be
made without loss of time. On this occasion Dr. Brux. declared
that he did not understand the resolutions of the late Delegate
Synod in his case as the Board does.” ,

Here the reading of the report was resumed. ]

“September 3. Dir. Brand wrote Dr. Brux as follows: ‘When
I visited you yesterday, it was for the declared purpose, as you will
recall, of obtaining your wishes preparatory to making the neces-
sary steamship reservations for you and your family for your return
to India. I set forth that we had encountered no little difficulty in
booking our outgoing group and had ultimately been forced to
engage passage on the Cunard-P. & O. Lines. Accordingly, it would
be necessary to act in your case without further delay.

“In the course of our conversation you stated, if my memory
serves me right, that you still hold that the Board for Foreign
Missions erred when it resolved not to return you to India for the
reasons known to you, and also, that the South Wisconsin District
erred when it resolved to sustain its Praesidium in the position
which that body had taken with respect to your then availability.
You also stated, if I recall correctly, that you do not agree with the
interpretation my Board puts upon the report of the Strieter Com-
mittee to the late Delegate Synod, which -was accepted by it.

“ ‘Now, I am very anxious to understand your present position
fully as you outlined it to me yesterday. Would it trouble you too
much to let me have it again as succinctly and clearly as you can
put it into a few words?

“Allow me to assure you, my dear Doctor, that I am earnestly
desirous of carrying out at the earliest date possible the synodical
resolution to return you to your former field of labor in India and
know also that the Board for Foreign Missions joins me in this
position. In this spirit I came to Chicago to discuss your steamship
reservations just as soon as necessary moneys had been made avail-
able to us by the Board of Directors of Synod.’

“September 8 Dr. Brux answered at length. A copy is at-
tached to these minutes.

“September 16. Dr. Brux’s letter of September 8 was submitted
to the Board. Dr. W. Arndt read his ‘Memorandum on the Letter
Dr. Brux Sent September 8, 1935.’ In this letter Dr. Brux. says,
among other things, ‘that the Board erred in dismissing me in 1932