# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S937
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SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 239

7. The unified yet partially diversified program suggested in
this recommendation will be favorable to achieve a desired spiritual
conditioning. The educational environment will -be normal and
natural and will approximate those circumstances under which the
future pastors will be engaged in Gospel preaching and the cure

of souls. Facutty or Concorpia Seminary, St. Louis, Mo.

THE SENIOR COLLEGE
(Memorial 139)

Since it is advisable that there be many well-trained church
workers besides those in the ministry or teaching professions; and

Since future pastors ought not to be trained .in monastical
fashion, nor as a special class, but as a portion of the universal
priesthood; and

Since transfer from other institutions to ours ought to be
made as easy as possible to facilitate the gaining of students and
to guard against the dangers of inbreeding; and

Since many members of Synod believe the pre-seminary train-
ing ought to be not specialized, but of a general and varied nature
fitting all Christians for intensive work in the Kingdom;

Therefore, Synod is hereby petitioned to adopt the following
resolutions to guide the Board of Higher Education:

1, That the senior college be coeducational.

2. That it be located near a State university for the sake of
added facilities and courses.

3. That all students be required to major or at least minor
in Christianity, to the extent possible under a system of ac-
creditation. 7

4. That our system of religious courses be most thoroughly
revised and expanded, so that religion becomes truly the first con-
cern of the curriculum, of the extracurricular training, and of the
personal lives. “

5. That practical experience in church work and soul winning
be required in connection with the religious curriculum, so that
theory and practice may join.

6. That for this purpose the college be located near a large
population.

7. That the pattern of Bible institutes be drawn upon for the
best in training for practical church work,

8. That the Walther League be encouraged to make systematic
efforts at recruiting our young people for such education and
for full-time church work.

9. That no attempt be made to limit “production” of church
workers for fear of “oversupply,” lest we may be limiting the