# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1947_S204
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

202 SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

habitus practicus so necessary for an efficient ministry. Neither
privately controlled non-selective Lutheran high schools (God
bless their increasing number!) nor synodically controlled selective
high schools, dedicated to general education, can adequately pre-
pare students for a pre-theological senior college.

5. If the senior college idea materializes, the institution should
be a two-class college closely connected in purpose and curriculum
with the junior colleges already existing. Together they must con-
stitute one senior college. It should be a new and separate in-
stitution, comprising the junior and senior college classes and, of
course, absorbing the fourth year of the Seminary course. It may
be located, if feasible, on the St. Louis Seminary grounds, apart
from the Seminary, or in some other Lutheran center, e. g., Detroit
or Cleveland. Full accreditation of such a school could be achieved
in a relatively short time.

6. A privately owned and controlled institution such as Val-
paraiso University is wholly out of the question for the training
of a future ministry, an obligation which Synod has considered its
own and held sacred from its very beginning. Synod, it is to be
hoped, will never surrender its full control and jealous supervision
of the training of its ministry, either wholly or in part, into private
or even semiprivate hands.

7. Impossible, too, is the integration of pre-theological cur-
ricula and training and teachers’ college curricula and training
at one or both of our teachers’ colleges. A teachers’ college is
not a pre-theological school. It is one or the other or neither.
It cannot be both. A faculty which necessarily consists largely
of teachers of music and of purely educational subjects and in
which most of the members are without theological training must
not be put in charge of the pre-theological training of our future
ministry.

8. Synod is not educating for education’s sake, but for the sake
of the kingdom of Christ. The Church needs well-trained and
well-equipped officers, each one training for his particular field
of operation. Our country may introduce a single portfolio for
national defense, but it will retain its West Point and its Annapolis.
Synod has already placed the portfolio for its higher education into
the hands of the Board for Higher Education. Its pre-theological
schools and its teachers’ colleges should remain separate.

Tue Facuity or Concorpra CoLuEcE
Mitwavker, WISCONSIN
P. F. Kornnexe, Secretary

THE PasroraL CoNFERENCE OF THE SouTH WIscoNnsINn DIstRIctT
endorsed this memorial.