# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S93 # Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration) %::For its own perpetuation and growth the Church must Ba specially for a well-educated and doctrinally sound min- f preaching and teaching. With reference to the phenomenal population growth, as e commercial, industrial, and cultural expansion of the Coast during the last decade, the following observations are Missionary opportunities on the Paci 2atest anywhere. ; The mission work of our Church has not been able to keep th these opportunities, ~ For their development the support of the Church as a whole uired. ‘Present facilities for higher education in the West are wholly te for the purposes of our Church. tis self-evident that the future of the Church in the West ted. only by the vision of those who one hundred years from fic slope are among onsideration t facilities and population trends would indicate that both y and a terminal teacher-training institution should be CaLirornia Concorpia COLLEGE A. H. WESSLING, Secretary of the Faculty Epwin MEEsgE, Jr., Secretary of the Board of Control Oe . ‘Addition of Auxiliary Courses at Concordia College, Edmonton , Repeated resolutions of our District conventions show or the establishment of more parochial schools; and ‘It has become app ms has to a large extent been frustrated by an acute will meet the require- Department of Education in Alberta; and