# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1944_S679
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

MISSIONS 95

ly Argentine and Brazilian stock. That some might be saved,
shall change our methods, if need be. Instead of trying to
Jo-Saxonize the people, we ought to be willing to be Latinized.
But what of other countries in South America, where we as
have not opened missions? What of Europe and of countries
world over? It must be our aim to go whither the Lord
is us. We must be ready to enter new countries as the Lord
tes the opportunities and provides the means. And now is
time to prepare and to male ready. Now is the time. We dare
HOt postpone action. The handwriting on the wall — nationalism —
clearly visible. The day of final Judgment is at hand.

The time is short. The training of a native ministry, the build-.
of a national Church, is essential. Humanly speaking, there
no other means to meet the challenge of the hour and to carry
t the Lord’s command to bring the Gospel to foreign lands and
preserve it there for the future generation.

To train a native ministry, we must have ‘a staff of instructors,
a least three men, preferably pastors well qualified, good the-
jlogians, pastors with practical missionary experience and a God-
ven passion for souls, familiar with the language of the country
which they are to serve, men with executive ability.

To train instructors for a theological school, we must have a
faduate school, together with a language school, a school in con-
ection with and under the supervision of Concordia Seminary.
small language school is already in operation at Concordia
eminary, under the guidance of the faculty and missionaries
ome on furlough. As yet this is a private undertaking of stu-
ents. A larger number of students are deeply interested in the
bidy of Chinese, Malayalam, Spanish, and Russian. A_post-
graduate school for preliminary training of foreign missions is
© in operation. The curriculum of this school includes the fol-
E lowing courses: Oriental History, Missionary Methods, History
;. Of Missions, and other topics.
The establishment of a language school, the further develop-
ment of the postgraduate course for missionaries gives rise to the
question whether former missionaries who cannot return to their
former mission fields because of present-day conditions or for
other reasons ought not to be retained as instructors in this in-
stitution. Is it good stewardship on our part to release these
missionaries to perform tasks of lesser importance, tasks which
others could well perform? Is it good stewardship not to make
use of the wide experience gathered and the God-given talents of
at least some of these missionaries? Salaries paid these men will
bring returns an hundredfold.

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