# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S1020
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822 SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

ACTION
Upon recommendation of Committee 1, Synod resolved:

Resolution 56

Wuergas, The special committee appointed “to study tre
in school enrollments; to propose adequate facilities for the prop
training of our future teachers; and to propose plans for the judi
cious recruiting of students for our teachers’ colleges” has subs
mitted a comprehensive report; and

Wuereas, Many proposals advanced in this report refer”
matters with which our Board for Higher Education is asked.
concern itself continuously; therefore be it

Resolved, That the entire report be assigned to the Boa
for Higher Education for consideration and for action.

Synodical Educational Institution in Southeast of U.S;
(Memorial 138)

1. The Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod has in the Unit
States two theological seminaries, two normal schools, and niii
preparatory schools of higher education, and not one of these ig
located in the southeastern section of our country.

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

3. Even though the population contains only a small porti
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 co:
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 a
its mission work in every land through the establishment of edu-'s
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. 1

~ 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 —