Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-10-16
Articles of Incorporation Of
Evangelical Lutherans Miss
ing For Some Time
MAY INvALIDATE MANY ACTS
Legality of Transactions Of Synod for
Many Years May Be Questioned =
Uncertain as to Whether Papers Are
Lost or Stolen Want Religious
Day in Public Schools.
Snecial to Tnnes-Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
Sioux City, Oct. 16.-The disappear
ance of the articles of incorporation OF
the Evangelical Lutheran church, a
wear ago. was amitted by a special
committee at meeting OF the SYNOD
and report made that diligent search
failed to reveal the whereabouts of the
important document.
Leaders of the church who had
known Of the missing document are
unable to understand what has become
of it, and the committee, appointed a
wear ago to prosecute the search, are
completely at sea.
No one knows where it has gone, ana
the doubt now worrying the men,
prominent in the church, is whether
the records of the fifty-two annual
conventions are legal; whether the
synod is allowed to receive any gifts,
requests or estatee entrusted to the
church. A. B. Learner. president OF the
synod; w. H. Bailey, the treasurer. and
0. O. Roe, prominent member from
Cedar Rapids, were placed on the
committee to investigate the affair and
ordered to continue the search for the
missing parchment.
Some of the delegates are inclined
to the belief that the papers may have
been stolen, while others hold they
are simply mislaid, but the hunt which
has been carried on in every city where
the many conventions have been held,
has still been lacking in success. 1t
is proposed IL the articles are not
found by another year, to draw up new
incorporation papers for record at Des
Moines.
One of the important things trans
acted at the business session yester-
day was the adoption Of resolution
, asking the public school authorities of
the state and country for one day in
each week to be devoted to religious
instruction for the children. The reso-
| luton follows:
Resolved, That in view Of the need
of more systematic education in re-
ligion, we recommend for the favorable
consideration of the public school au-
thorities Of the country the proposal
to allow the children to absent them
selves, without detriment, from the
public schools on Wednesday, or on
some other afternoon Of the school
week, for the purpose Of attending re-
| ligious instruction in their own
churches; and we urge upon the
churches the advisability of awaiting
themselves of the opportunity so
granted to give such instruction in ad
dition to that given on Sunday"
The trustees for the various institu
lions supported by the Iowa synod
were announced as follows:
Carthage College Rev. w. III
Blanche, D. D.. Davenport; Rev. G. w
Maggart, Cedar Rapids Andrew Hans
trustee at large.
Nachusa, Ill. Orphanage-Rev. j. S
Lean.er Clinton.
lob Synod = A. B. Learner, Iowa
City w. H. Bailey, Iowa City; o. o
Roe, Cedar Rapids.
The support of the convention was
given the Lutheran church magazine
and the synod asked to help the new
publication which will be issued short
lily in Philadelphia. Subscriptions up tc
the 1st of November will be taken al
SO cents per year and after that Is
4 cents.