# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1947_S842
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

258 SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

Annual Allowance of $200 for College Laboratories
(Memorial 150) :

The Faculty of Concordia College, St.Paul, Minn., hereby
requests Synod to set aside $200 annually per school for laboratory
purposes in addition to the fees collected by the schools from the
students. Artur C. Streurert, Secretary

ACTION

Committee 1 brought in the following report, which was
adopted by Synod:

“The former arrangement of allotting a lump sum to each
school, irrespective of needs, was rescinded by the Saginaw Con-
vention. Under the present regulations each school presents a
budget for its needs through the Board for Higher Education to
the Board of Directors.”

Concerning the Study of Hebrew and Greek
at Our Preparatory Schools
(Memorial 151)

Be it resolved to reinstate the study of the Hebrew language of
the Old Testament at our preparatory schools for the holy min-
istry, and that for a period of four years of not less than four
hours a week,

Be it furthermore resolved that the courses in Latin and Ger-
man be reduced to the very minimum of two years High School,
in order to make room and time for the Hebrew. If any special
reading is to be done in Latin or German, let it be the Bible, the
Vulgate, and Luther’s German translation of the Bible respectively.
No man preparing to be a messenger for God can become too well
acquainted with the One Book God has given, that has the One
Message he is to bring to all.

- Be it furthermore resolved that instead of all the heathen
authors that are in Greek, that they at once concentrate on the
reading of only the New Testament, also for a period of four years
and not less than four hours a week.

Why waste the precious little time and energy God gives our
boys with the dead heathen authors and their idolatrous philosophy,
which is not required by God to be His messenger, and is never
used by them later on in any of their work? What God requires
is Spirit-filled men to do His work, men full of the Holy Ghost
and power, whose wisdom no man will be able to resist. And
God has told us that this Spirit of His comes to us through only
one channel, God’s holy Word. “Sanctify them through Thy
Truth, Thy Word is Truth” (John 17 317). If Hebrew and Greek