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Intersynodical Relations Committee shows Madson, Tweit, Anderson, Gullerud, and Lillegard from the ELS and as well as Oscar Naumann of the WELS. The Fehner dealings were, to a certain extent, a warm-up for larger battles to be fought on the Synodical Conference scene. When one reads the Intersynodical Relations Committee minutes with the backdrop of the Fehner case in view, it is easy to see why there was so much solidarity on the part of the ELS and WELS in the discussions. IV. The Intersynodical Relations Committee Meetings: 1952-1954 Even during its ugliest moments, the Fehner matter anything but anomalous. When the Missouri Synod officially allowed scouting, situations like the one in Mankato began cropping up at an alarming rate. The Synodical Conference responded to Missouri’s new position on scouting, by setting up the Intersynodical Relations Committee (IRC). This committed had been suggested both by President John Brenner of the Wisconsin Synod and LCMS Pastor George Schweikert. 315 The duty of this committee was to “discuss these overtures and the matters contained therein, as well as similar questions that may arise.” 316 The committee functioned from 1944-1954, when it was dissolved following the 1954 Synodical Conference convention. The minutes of the IRC portray the Synodical Conference, as early as 1953, to be a house divided and ripe for collapse. While the issue that originally spawned the committee, scouting, continued to be a thorny subject, the issues of fellowship, joint prayer, and numerous other instances of controversy seem to be added to the docket at an 315 Schuetze, Synodical Conference, 245. This is the same George Schweikert, pastor of St. John’s Lutheran Church, Okabena, WI, who supported also the WELS position on church and ministry, see previous section. 316 Ibid. 172
alarming rate. The water of controversy was coming in faster that the IRC members could bail it out. For instance, at the November 12-13, 1953 meeting of the IRC, five topics were set for discussion, five were remaining from the previous meeting, and by the end of the session, eleven more were added for further discussion. 317 The minutes of the last five IRC meetings demonstrate the length and breadth of WELS and ELS fraternal bond in four ways: common hermeneutical and exegetical concerns and methodology; a common historical consciousness of the matters being debated; fraternal defenses of each other’s synod and individual members of the synod; and the recognition by the opposition within the Missouri and Slovak Synods that the WELS and ELS were one in doctrine and practice. The WELS and ELS shared biblical hermeneutics is seen immediately. For instance, when discussion of Revised Standard Version (RSV) came up, both in the November ‘52 meeting and in the April ’53 meeting, the objections by both WELS and ELS officials are the same. Both Norman Madson and Edmund Reim make a point about the RSV’s transition of Betulah as “young woman” rather than “virgin” in Isaiah 7:14. 318 George Lillegard and Edmund Reim again take up the issue in the April ’53 session. 319 But greater than any fear about any individual point of translation was the spirit in which the translators of the RSV approached the sacred text of Scripture. The comments of the WELS and ELS officials see the higher-critical spirit of the RSV as one foreign to the 317 Minutes of the Intersynodical Relations Committee, November 12-13, 1953, ELS Presidential files: 1950s. Evangelical Lutheran Synod Archives. It should also be noted that very few topics were discussed at this session due to the fact that two members of the committee, Gullerud (ELS) and Voss (WELS), had refused to pray with the LCMS men present to protest their errors. Almost the entire session was devoted to this protest. 318 Minutes of the Intersynodical Relations Committee, November 13-14, 1952. ELS Presidential Files: 1950s. Evangelical Lutheran Synod Archives, Mankato, MN, 2. 319 Minutes of the Intersynodical Relations Committee, April 16-17, 1953. ELS Presidential Files: 1950s. Evangelical Lutheran Synod Archives, Mankato, MN, 12. 173
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constitution, the reference to the
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unbelief, in recent times such men
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we do? Why stand aloof against a cu
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that poor, unscriptural hermeneutic
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congregation, not us listeners.”
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elieve for them, such as is the cas
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inging unity to the various Luthera
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the church unperverted. It thus has
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synods over the years. But as will
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E.B. Schluetter, and delivered the
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students. Ylvisaker had resigned hi
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teaching English, Norse, Latin, Alg
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Waltonite, and scare ‘em into ret
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experiment never really took off, p
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point. Bethany had not been entrust
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growing tense, not only among those
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weight around, intruded upon a very
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Tjernagel contends vehemently that
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of the ELS, as well as her wariness
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meeting has lapsed, I am forced in
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to them what they should speak and
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conferences. By entering into a rel
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sent out by a Chicago group, I shal
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have good reasons to refrain for ex
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