# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S391
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'INTERSYNODICAL AND DOCTRINAL MATTERS 391

were pledged to the Symbolical Books and especially to
Sburg Confession.?¢

twofold calling of the teacher.— In the following issue of
Ablatt, Lindemann presented the idea that the Lutheran
s a twofold calling. He has indeed a spiritual office, but
¥also a civic or worldly office in which he teaches his pupils
that concern only secular things and that are not bound
i God’s Word at all. Lindemann pointed out that arithmetic,
‘ history, nature study, geography, grammar, and the like,
ich secular subjects that the teacher taught according to his

ichers are not absolute masters of their schools. —In a later
demann deplored the fact that many teachers consider
ves “lords of the.schools” (Herren der Schule), in which
ould have free choice of textbooks and be independent of
“‘supervision.21. He refers to the fact that the German
f the first half of the 19th century had fought for such
ence. He points out that also Christian teachers have
Ided to this temptation. Lindemann again and again de-
the subjectivism of the teacher.22

still later article, Lindemann pointed out that the school-
jath. was a part, a very important part, of the pastor’s flock,
at,"in his work of teaching, the teacher was the assistant of
r and his representative.?3

teachers of the Missouri Synod are members of the clergy.
cle by C. A. T. Selle in the Schulblatt, in 1869, argued that
ther belongs to the clergy. One of the arguments advanced
le in this connection was the fact that the teachers in Ger-
bad the same privileged position under the consistory as the
He draws a parallel between that and the Missouri Synod
as follows:

a en as here in America in our Missouri Synod we testify to
tthe teachers belong to the so-called clergy group; be-
rding to our synodical Constitution, there are regulations
examination, after which, like the pastors, they are con-
and declared to be regular members of the Synod.” 24

: declared that the public teaching of the Word of God was
“of the public ministry in the narrower sense (Pfarramt).

» p. 138.

id. (Feb., 1867), p. 165.

id. (July, 1867), pp. 334—39.
(Aug., 1867), p. 364.

A. T. Selle, “Das Amt des Pastors als Schulaufseher,” Schul-
Jan., 1869), p. 139.

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