# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S389
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

INTERSYNODICAL AND DOCTRINAL MATTERS 889

discipline, or that there would be the utilization of ill-
red means of discipline and the use of legalistic measures.}2
the other hand, Sihler pointed out that the relationship of
tq pastor included not only cordial respect, but also
y love, and this accounts for the fact that the respect of the
does not turn into cautious timidity. Both pastor and
jér are children of the same heavenly Father in Christ and are,
fore, brothers in the Lord. One does not have more or less of
an the other. Both have essentially the same noble and
calling with the final objective to use the Word of God to
young and old to salvation in Christ. In seeking to reach this
tor and teacher should be bound together in intimate

love that the teacher should show his pastor includes
Wy admonition and comfort. It could happen that in younger
gations, particularly those that were geographically isolated,
ould be so close to the pastor as the teacher of the congre-
i.Should the pastor blunder in his relations with the congre-
‘with impatience, anger, or unwise remarks, the teacher
‘have the obligation to give the pastor a brotherly admonition.
her should also seek to comfort his pastor when crosses and
‘bother him in his heart, in the home, and in the congre-

finition of the teacher’s office. — An article from the Schul-
867, defines the office of the teacher in the following words:
‘real office of teacher in a parochial school consists of
fiat they take baptized children who are teachable and not
firmed and teach them God’s Word, help them to acquire
ef parts of Christian doctrine and the story of God’s king-
earth, help them to learn to read so that they search the
and find Christ therein, and help them to acquire Bible
ymns, and skill in singing, so. that in later years they can
“themselves and with the congregation of adults sing God’s
id glory. 714

to be noted that the function of the teacher as here con-
ointed entirely to the teaching of religion, both as a sub-
ool and as a justification of the other things that he
The same article pointed out that the teachers, because
ight God’s Word, were servants of the Word and spiritual

tor und Schullehrer. ” (This series of articles, though un-
apparently by J. C. W. Lindemann.) Schulblatt II (Jan., 1867),

ry