# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S103
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 99

. f God; that rather an amount of self-support work be
blessings at the college and seminaries to ease the economic
encourse the students; that such work be sought for the students
burden or f independent professions (e.g., a student works odd
along lines “iailor and learns tailoring; barbering; cabinet mak-
hours for "bat the end purpose be to produce church workers
ing; ete); self-support who, in times of depression, can work for
capable earning their own living, imitating the training, practice,
God example of the Apostle Paul, Acts 20:34.

Martin P, Simon

oa Continue High School Department

at Our Preparatory Schools

In view of the tremendous importance of our synodical colleges
for the production of pastors, missionaries, and teachers, and the
far-reaching effects of any major changes in our system, the faculty
of Concordia College, Milwaukee, Wis., respectfully submits the
following considerations and recommendations:

1. The growing desire in our Synod for the addition of two
years to our pre-theological training has crystallized in a number
of plans whose relative merits we do not Propose to debate at this
time. Some of the advocates of change, however, propose the elimi-

century-old tradition, for reasons stated in the following para-
graphs.

2. Our present pre-theological ‘schools (high school through
junior college) have kept abreast of the best in modern American
pre-professional education and have long ceased to be copies of
19th-century European Gymnasia, ; :

3. The ministry which our schools have produced in the past

a broad, well-j ntegrated, intensified preparation for work inthe