# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S99
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 95

ctfully petition Synod to grant to the
Tex Sune Fel of Lutheran Concordia College at Austin, Tex.,
Board of : oto inaugurate co-education on the junior college level
the author curriculum include the courses necessary for the
an ine “of women teachers and parish workers.
Tue Texas District
Pau C. Exrert, Secretary

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Synodical Educational Institution in Southeast of U.S.

J. The Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod has in the United
States two theological seminaries, two normal schools, and nine
preparatory schools of higher education, and not one of these is
located in the southeastern section of our country.

2. In square miles of productive land the southeastern section
of our country embraces approximately one fourth of the whole,
with population in about the same proportion, while that territory
during the last 50 years has made progress in business, educational
and social development comparable to that of any other section
of the country.

3. Even though the population contains only a small portion
of the members of The Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod, still
the Church has many congregations, most of which are ‘mission
congregations, in that territory. These member congregations com-
prise two Districts in their entirety, and two others in part.

4. The policy of our Church has been and still is to carry on
its mission work in every land through the establishment of edu-
cational institutions for the purpose of training the young men
and women of those mission fields to become trained workers for
the Lord’s vineyard. Examples in addition to our own country:
South America, India, China, Africa.

5. The Roman Catholic Church, doing mission work in any par-
ticular field and hoping to capture that field for its organization,
will invariably back up its work with a strong educational institu-
tion. Their policy seems to be: “Educate or perish.”

6. In order to obtain a reasonable number of the sons of the
congregations located in the southeastern section of our country
as future workers for the Church — pastors, teachers, laymen —
it stands to reason that we as a Church shall have to provide the
facilities, even though the policy may not be a paying one at

7. The congregations of that territory have furnished many
able workers for the Church, both ministers and laymen, but these