# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1947_S257
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 255

courage supported students to do labor at the institutions and
provide such opportunities for labor, while others do not; and
Wuereas, Such lack of uniformity has created the highly em-
barrassing situation that students from Districts which are seeking
to carry out Synod’s suggested regulations and are giving labor to
the college, are in attendance at the same schools with supported
students from other Districts who have not even been requested to
give such labor and are therefore justified in feeling that they have
been improperly discriminated against; therefore we respectfully
Recommend, That Synod take this matter under advisement
at this convention, to the end that some arrangement for uni-
formity in the administration of said regulations of Synod relative
to student support be set up or, if that is considered unwise, that
the regulations referred to in this overture be changed or removed.

NortHERN Itirnois District StrupENtT Ar CoMMISSION
A. T. Krerzmann, Chairman

Wo. Krascet, Secretary
Joun P. WILLE

ACTION
Upon recommendation of Committee 1 Synod resolved:
That this memorial be referred to the Board for Higher Edu-
cation for study and action.

The Spiritual Training at Our Preparatory Schools
(Memorial 147)

Wuereas, Synod maintains its own pretheological schools in
order to exert a spiritual influence upon the personal life of stu-
dents preparing for the ministry; and

Wuereas, Every effort should be devoted to the molding and
strengthening of Christian character and to deepening the stu-
dent’s consecration to Christ and His cause on earth; therefore be it

Resolved, That we petition Synod, in furtherance of this aim,
to instruct the proper authorities

1. That the directors of these schools be relieved, as far as
possible, of all administrative duties, so that they may concentrate
on the spiritual aims of the institutions and serve as Seelsorger
and counselor to the individual student in his spiritual problems,
his personal devotions, and his life objectives. This task ought
not to be delegated to one or more of the professors, or to a stu-
dent pastor, but as the chief objective of the school it should be
the principal duty and ever the deepest concern of its head.

2. That preseminary courses in religion receive greater em-