# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S1073
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

PARISH EDUCATION . 875

ducation, and they will not receive a Christian education until
re enrolled in Christian schools. While Protestant churches
ect the Christian education of the young and endeavor to
gain adults who should never have been lost to the Church, the
tholic Church continues to grow because it has a vast system of
rochial schools. As long as the Catholic Church maintains its
hools, it will continue to increase its membership despite the
al weapons used to arrest its growth.
Liberal Protestants make an idol of the public school, and they
bound to oppose the Christian school movement. But it is to
hoped that the majority of conservative Protestants see the
andwriting on the wall and will in growing numbers be planning
equate program of Christian education for their children.
We can successfully combat Romanism only by making many
mg and loyal Protestant Christians, who know why they are
pristians and why they are evangelical or Protestant. This means
fereased attention to Christian education by whatever means it
be offered.. There are essentially two alternatives open to
tiem in the implementation of this suggestion: (1) the support
n effective program of released-time instruction; (2) the
ding of full-time Christian schools. The most effective way
roviding it is through full-time Christian schools.

Special Assignments and Activities of the Board for Parish

Education
sts and Measurements

The synodical convention of 1947 authorized the Board for
sh Education to establish a Lutheran Educational ‘Measure-
ts Bureau. After careful consideration of the needs and costs,
organization and function of such a program, the Board decided
the problem involved the need for careful exploration. For
purpose the Board appointed the following committee on Tests
11 Measurements: Dr. H. J. Boettcher, Prof. W. O. Kraeft,
r. Theodore G. Stelzer, Mr. Elmer Pflieger, and Mr. A. L. Miller,

This Committee did considerable exploratory work on the pos-
ities of meeting the distinctive needs of Lutheran schools and
ational agencies for tests. The scope of the committee’s work
S outlined by them is threefold:

1. To develop tests on aspects of Christian growth.