# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1947_S148
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

146 SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

are right, then we will need only $11,000 more to finish the
buildings.

2. We request that Synod empower its Board of Directors
or its Fiscal Conference to grant us the necessary funds for
furnishing and equipping the seminary building. We need the
necessary installations for three classrooms, the chapel, faculty
room, library, reception room, reading-living room of the students,
dining room, kitchen, and cellar, study rooms and dormitories,
sickroom, workshop, the electric fixtures, necessary sidewalks and
fences for the yards of the three professors and arranging of the
grounds, etc. For Synod’s committee and others we are sending
an itemized list on a special sheet, so that they may be in a position
to make the necessary recommendations, Our estimated cost on
all this is between 14 and 20 thousand dollars. If prices should
be stabilized at their present levels, we shall need only about
$14,000, but if they continue to go up, as in the past years and
most of all recently, we may need up to $20,000.

3. We request that Synod empower its Board of Directors or
Fiscal Conference to grant us the necessary sum for a small pipe
organ of at least two manuals and a number of well-selected
honest-speaking stops, which is a necessity if we are to train our
future pastors in church music and develop the proper appreciation
of the beautiful Spanish liturgy that follows exactly the new
C.P.H. Lutheran Hymnal of 1941. We have no way of estimating
the cost of such an organ; it may cost $5,000 to $10,000, or
even more.

’ 4, We request that Synod empower its Board of Directors or
its Fiscal Conference, to grant us the necessary funds to build up
our yet very inadequate student and faculty library. Especially
the faculty library will need much attention. We are not in a
position to mention any fixed sum.

Assuring Synod that the Christians in Argentina thank God
for the wonderful mission spirit shown by their brethren in North
America, and asking the Lord of the Church to grant you a large
measure of wisdom and foresight and a fine spirit of unity and
brotherliness and to bless you abundantly in your decisions for
the welfare of our beloved Church, we remain,

Most humbly
Synon’s Boarp or CoNnTROL
or Seminario Concorpia, BUENOS AIRES
S. H. Becxaann, Chairman
Cremens Mencxe, Treasurer
J. Fenuauer, Secretary
F. Amnert Rupo_r ABRAHAM -