# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1947_S78
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

76 SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

Sunday morning service. While true worship can be carried on
anywhere and the Word of God is not bound by inadequate physical
surroundings, there is no doubt that a dignified, architecturally
correct chapel is conducive to worship and meditation, since its
very construction and atmosphere stamp it as a house of God.
Such a house of God would also be available to all students and
faculty members at any time of the day for quiet meditation and
prayer.

Obviously, a chapel as unchurchly and theaterlike as our pres-
ent one does not lend itself to the proper teaching and demonstra-
tion of the Lutheran liturgy. While we feel that this factor is
important at all of our preparatory high schools and junior colleges,
it is of even greater significance in the professional schools. The
Teachers Colleges should develop in Synod’s future church musi-
cians a fine sense of liturgical discrimination, which, avoiding the
extremes of high churchism on the one hand and reformed bareness
on the other, will bring out the peculiar genius of the Lutheran
common service and our other accepted liturgies. No doubt this
can be taught academically in the classroom, but it. can best
be made a life pattern by daily observation and participation.

In view of the above facts we respectfully petition Synod for
an appropriation of $125,000 for the erection of an adequate and
architecturally correct chapel on the River Forest campus.

THe Boarp or CoNTROL
or ConcorDIA TEACHERS COLLEGE
ArtTHUR H. WERFELMANN, Chairman
Paut L. Kiuenper, Secretary
Tae Facutty or ConcorpiA TEACHERS COLLEGE
ArtHuR W. Kuinck, President
Epwin J: Wrpracut, Secretary

A NEW MUSIC BUILDING AND AUDITORIUM AT RIVER FOREST
(Memorial 125)

Concordia Teachers College is confronted with a situation
which makes it imperative for us to expand the facilities of our
Music Department. Upon the advice of our architect against adding
to the present structure either another floor or an adjoining wing,
we feel constrained to ask for a new Music Building.

The present building, in use since 1914, was originally built to
accommodate about 200 students. In 1921 a third floor was added
to the north wing, providing practice rooms for 50 additional stu-
dents. Our enrollment during the past triennium has averaged
well over 450, of whom approximately 150 are organ students
and 300 piano students.