# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S386
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

386 INTERSYNODICAL AND DOCTRINAL MATTERS

classified as advisory members.! The relation of Synod:
teachers was described in the followirig objects of Synod: 8
supervision of the pastors and teachers of Synod with regard:
performance of their official duties. 2. The conscientious é;
nation of candidates for the office of pastor and of teacher, 3
training of pastors and teachers for the service of the Churck:
to be noted that in each of these matters both pastors and tes
are mentioned.?

According to the Constitution of Synod, the individual
had considerable authority in examining candidates for the po
of teacher in the congregation. It was assumed that the Pasta;
perfectly competent to conduct such an examination.

The regulations of Synod stated that each new school
was to be installed in his office in a public and solemn service3

It was also provided that the President himself was to super
by personal visitation, the teaching and official activities of:
pastors and teachers of Synod.

It was further made the duty of the teachers as well as
pastors to pay at least one dollar a year into the synodical trea
This money was to be used for the running expenses of Synod,
for synodical institutions.® ?

Walther’s “Kirche und Amt.” —In 1851 Dr. C. F. W. Wa
submitted to the Fifth Convention of the Missouri Synod the’
of the treatise entitled “The Voice of Our Church on the Quest
Concerning the Church and the Ministry.” This essay “we
counterattack on the charge that the Missouri Synod, whic ‘
been organized on the basis of congregational sovereignty; :

theran clericalism. The 1851 synodical convention una
voted its approval of Walther’s essay and ordered its pub
The first edition of Kirche und Amt appeared the following

It is not relevant to our study of the historical backgrou
the teacher’s status to indicate Walther’s theses on the Church
pertinent, however, to list his theses on the ministry. These
following:

Thesis I—The holy ministry, or the pastoral office, sf
office distinct from the priestly office, which belongs to all beli

1 Lutheraner IIL (Sept. 5, 1846), p.3.
_ 2 Ibid., p.3.

3 Ibid., p. 4.

4 Ibid., p.4.

5 Ibid., p.6.