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To the President of the Norwegian
Lutheran Church OF America.
As one of your appointees on the
National Lutheran Commission for
Soldiers and Sailors Welfare, and as
Secretary of this body, ! beg leave 10
submit to your attention the following
report:
When a meeting was called by the
Presidents of the General Synod. The
United South. and the General Coun-
Gil for the purpose OF organizing a
central board or commission for the
spiritual work among the Lutheran
men with the Colors, 10 be held IN
New York, October 10Th, 1917, the
President of the Norwegian Lutheran
Church of America sent as reprcscn-
t~atives to this meeting the Reverend
!. A. O. Stub and the undersigned,
although the Church Council OF the
Norwegian Lutheran Church already
had made elaborate plans and prepa-
rations for work in the environments
and training camps of our Country,
and the Lutheran Brotherhood OF
America had secured permission to
erect its building i'll Camp Dodge,
Iowa. because il was evident that It
would be necessary for the Lutheran
Church of America to act as nearly
as possible as a unit in the great
which confronted our
Country and our Church.
Seven Synodical bodies were re-
presented at this meeting, and II was
decided to form a permanent organl-
zation OF Lutherans i'll America for
war work. The name given this
organization was the National Lu-
theran Commission for Soldiers and
Sailors Welfare. and its functions
were designated a. follows:
az To promote by every means the
spiritual welfare of our soldiers and
sailors.
b. To coordinate the work OF Luz
theran organizations already active in
this behalf.
q To initiate new work whenever
the need demands II.
ID To collect and disburse funds
for the prosecution OF this work.
e To secure proper candidates for
appointment to chaplainies in the army
andnavy OF the United States.
1t was also understood that the
Commission should be empowered to
undertake such other work as might
be delegated to it.
President. DR.. f. II. Knubel; Vice
President, DR.. c. Nj. Jacobs; Secre-
tary. Rev. Lauritz Larsen; Treasurer,
Hon. f. +. Ebert.
The Executive Committee was to
consist OF the officers OF the Commits
sion and the following four men:
DR.. II. \. Weller, Dr.. +. Jacobson,
Rev. A. c. K~ildegaard, Rev. Oscar c.
Mees.
Later the Reverend Emil II Rausch
became a member of the Executive
Committee, and the Reverend Arthur
Bruun a special representative with
the Commission:
General Council, General SYNOD.
Synod of Iowa and other States,
United Danish Lutheran, Danish Lu-
theran, Norwegian Lutheran Church
of America, United Synod South,
Joint Synod OF Ohio. Lutheran
Brethren, Icelandic Synod. Lutheran
Free Church. Suomi Synod The
Synodical Conference co-operateS in
external affairs.
The present representatives Of our
Synod are President II. g. Stub. Mr.
s. II. Holstad. and the undersigned.
In order To promote interest and
efficiency as we'll as cooperation be-
tween the East and the West, a
Western Executive Committee was
organized IN November with DR. II. G..
Stub a. chairman. This committee
worked effectively until the middle OF
March. At that time the National
Executive Committee was enlarged
by the addition OF a western member,
the Reverend Emil Rausch, and the
Western Field Secretary was called
as Executive Secretary. AT this time
all General Lutheran bodies were
urged to appoint members on the
National Commission on the basis OF
one member for each 100. 000 con-
frmed members in the Synod. Since
that time a number OF western men
have been appointed, and the Western
Executive Committee has. in the in