# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S1021
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SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 823

tands to reason that we as a Church shall have to provide the

ties, even though the policy may not be a paying one at
first.

dst. We greatly fear that another generation will tell a dif-
erent tale.

8. When a nucleus of weak congregations in the southeast
nocked at the door of our Synod in the year 1892, they came
ringing with them an educational institution, even though small.
fruits of that institution we still have many able pastors and
lany more consecrated laymen at work in the Church.

9. When in 1935 an effort was made to reduce the financial
urden of Synod by the elimination of four educational institu-
ons, the elimination of the lone weakest one, viz., Conover, N. C.,
_not make even a noticeable change in the synodical budget.
are making no complaint about the retention of Springfield,
ncordia, and Portland, but the history of our Church in the
! utheast territory during the past 15 years convinces us that the
abandonment of Conover was a mistake, a mistake not too late
yet to rectify.

10. In response to the calls of the church at large the con-
€regations and individuals of the southeast territory have been
making generous contributions both in finances and personal

rvice, but unless an equitable distribution is made of the working
units of the Church, it is only natural to suppose that this ardor
will cool in the course of time.
v1. The time when our Church is inaugurating a “Building for

; Tomorrow” program seems to be an appropriate time for Synod
to give serious consideration to the advisability of re-establishing
_ and maintaining a synodical educational institution in this south-
. eastern section of our country. In order to supply the future needs
of the Church for men, there will have to be a marked increase in
** production. An addition of one new school will naturally help
to solve this problem.

12. We, therefore, members of the Conover Concordia
E Alumni-ae Association, do petition The Lutheran Church — Mis-
- souri Synod, in 1950 convention assembled in Milwaukee, Wis.,
to give serious and prayerful consideration to the re-establishment

of such an institution in said territory.

Conover ConcorpiA ALUMNI-AE ASSOCIATION
Rev. J. FRANKLIN Yount, President
Mrs. Lois KREINHEDER-BoRNMANN, Secretary

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