# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1944_S586
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2 _ SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

rented by Synod. One home off the campus, at 75 Aberdeen P.
St. Louis, Mo., was purchased by Synod in 1943 at a cost of $12

In accord with the resolution of Synod (Proceedings;
p. 45), the Graduate School was re-organized: in 1938. Co
have been offered both for full-time and part-time graduate’
dents. The Graduate School Committee has also carried out
mandate of Synod (Proceedings, 1935, p. 44) to institute sum
schools and pastors’ institutes. Extension work is offered at
Forest under the direction of Concordia Seminary.

Concordia Seminary should become the center of Luth
graduate students. Its aim is to train scholarly theologians w.
in later life become the theological leaders in their conference
Districts, and Synod; to prepare future professors at our synodi
institutions; to equip the missionaries who are to be the theologic
leaders in foreign fields; and to develop men for specific tasks.
the occasion may arise.

In conjunction with the Board for Foreign Missions the facul
has taken the initial steps in establishing a Mission Departm
according to a synodical resolution of 1938 (Proceedings, p. 15€
In the fall of 1941 the following courses were added in the Gradua
School: History of Missions, Missionary Methods, Comparative Ff
ligion, Oriental History, Chinese, and Malayalam. In additio:
members of the faculty; Dr. F. Brand, Rev. O. H. Schmidt, and
Sionaries (on furlough) A. T. Koehler, E. C. Zimmermann
A. R. Raasch have taught classes during the past triennium,
Emergency Planning Council is financing the teaching of R
and Spanish introduced in the current year, with twelve and fo
two students in the respective classes. Four candidates atten
in 1941—1942; five in 1942—1943: seven in 1943—1944 (two mir
isterial candidates, three normal school candidates, and two mi
sionaries on furlough from the American Lutheran Church). -Thg
students organized a voluntary Foreign Missionary Society und
the sponsorship of the faculty during the current year to stimulate
interest in Foreign Missions and to study the lands, peoples, ¢
toms, and languages of China, India, Africa, South America, Russigg
and Japan.

The project has now passed the experimental stage, and
Faculty and the Board are prepared to make the following reec
mendations for placing the Mission Department on a perman
basis and for expanding the work:

1. That Synod erect a mission house on the campus of -
cordia Seminary as soon as feasible. This mission house is.
clude a mission library, conference rooms, furnished apar
for missionaries on furlough and for candidates. The cost o
building should not exceed $75,000.00. Furnishing, equipment