# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S1363
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

CONVENTION MINUTES 903

tion about Concordia High School of Seward to the Board for
Higher Education and the Board of Directors for appropriate action
(T. B., p. 157, Resolution 43). The problems connected with re-
moving any injustices in connection with the provision of residences
for retiring professors was referred to the Board for Higher Edu-
cation (Resolution 44). The policy inaugurated by the Board for
Higher Education in the matter of modified service of professors
is to continue to guide the actions of the respective authorities until
1956, when further recommendations are to be presented to the
convention (Resolution 45). Synod declined to reverse its position
in the matter of retiring professors (Resolution 46).

(Committee 4, T.B., p. 108)
In the matter of State aid, Synod reaffirmed for the next trien-
nium the position taken in 1944 and 1947, which recognizes the
justice of accepting or claiming the social service program of the
State, but opposes granting of State funds for the teaching program
of the church school (Resolution 9). © :

The merger of. the Committee on Marriage, Divorce, Remar-
riage, and Related Subjects with the Committee on Marriage and
the Family, a subcommittee of the Board for Parish Education,
was ratified (Resolution 10, T.B., p. 143). The committee was in-
structed to continue its work. The Family Life Committee is to
provide suitable materials to promote Christian family life and
to provide special training opportunities for those who work with
families in the local congregations (Resolution 11). The congre-
gations were called upon to train their young people for Christian
family life, to provide opportunities to bring Christian young people
together, and especially to warn against un-Scriptural and un-
Christian marriages which add to the contractual obligations. of
spouses laid down in the Scripture or require commitments about
children. The subject of confirmation instruction is to be studied
at pastoral conferences and in essays published
Congregations are to integrate all educational work with their con-
firmation program. The Board for Parish Education is to super-
vise the production of a manual on confirmation instruction. (T. B.,
p. 144, Resolution 13). In order to stimulate attendance at Bible
classes, Synod set a goal of at least an additional 5 per cent of
communicant members in Bible classes by 1953, urged all Districts
‘to set for themselves definite goals, and instructed the Board for

Parish Education to supply effective study materials as well as
training helps for the leaders.

in our journals.

(Committee 3, T. B., p. 183, Resolution 10)
The resglution reaffirming as Scripturally correct the use of

Rom. 16:17 in our Constitution, ‘Catechism, and the Brief Statement