# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S388
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388 INTERSYNODICAL AND DOCTRINAL MATTERS:

auxiliary office, which is attached to the ministry of pr
Walther stated that the office of schoolteacher, of almoner;‘
of precentor in public worship, and other similar offices, we
be regarded as sacred offices of the Church. He pointed
each of these has a portion of the one office of the Church
aids to the ministry of preaching.® ;

Teachers in the Constitution of 1855. — The synodical
tution of 1855 again classified the teachers as advisory mer
Synod.?. Teachers coming from an unorthodox church. }
wanting to be taken into membership in Synod had to hay,
loquium just like the pastors.8

The relation of the teacher to the pastor. —In 1863. 1
discussed the relations of the teacher to the pastor in Le
Wehre. He asserted that the teacher was an assistant of th
in the handling of God’s children for the purpose of teae
training and that the pastor had official supervision of
in these two fields.2 According to Sihler, there was no p
tween the pastor and the teacher, but a definite subordinat
teacher to the leadership of the pastor. Sihler emphasi;
ever, that this subordination of the teacher to the pastor she
for both pastor and teacher a schooling in humility.’ In his re
with his assistant in caring for the lambs of Christ, the pastg
follow the general instructions of the Holy Spirit, who thre
Paul emphasizes the principle of “in honor preferring one ai
The pastor should recognize and honor the teacher’s spiri
he should give him merited recognition for faithfulness ‘ani
in the use of these gifts; he should stand by him in his |
tions and with the sweet comfort of God’s Word lighten:
crosses he would have to bear as a teacher.

On the other hand, Sihler emphasized that in h
teacher should recognize the pastor as his superior and ih
be misled because in this or that formal knowledge or s
excel the pastor.!! Sihler urged that the teachers get the:
advise them with respect to discipline in the school. Hep
that it could easily happen that there would be too mutch

6 Walther, Kirche und Amt, 1852 ed., p.387; 1911 ed., p. 943},
and the Church, pp. 71—86.

7 Constitution of 1855, chap. III, Part 2.

8 Ibid., Part 2.

9 WwW. Sihler, “Ueber das evangelische Verhalten einés
gesinnten Gemeindeschullehrers theils gegen seine Schulkini

gegen die Gemeinde, theils gegen den Pastor.” Lehre und
(January, 1863), p.1

10 Ibid., p.12.
11 Ibid., pp. 12, 13.