# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S394
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

394 INTERSYNODICAL AND DOCTRINAL MATTERS

to say to himself: ‘I have often failed; I should often hg;
better and could have done better with greater foresight a
fulness.’ He should, therefore, seek forgiveness from. G
necessary also from the children and their parents), should
fort himself in faith with the merit of the Teacher of all.ms
Jesus Christ, and begin anew in His power and name his
but also richly blessed work, until his Lord and Master.
home and bids him to enter into his Master’s joy.” 31
The teacher’s office as a part of the pastorate. —In
delivered to the convention of the Canada District in 188
mann emphasized that the teacher’s office was not in-th
category as the Sunday school teacher’s. He condemned th
tice of Sunday school superintendents’ addressing children;
ing the Word of God to them, and having ex corde prayers
stated that Sunday school teachers were not called to pert
function of the pastorate (Predigtamt). Then he added:.;
regularly called parochial school teacher, the situation. is:
different. He has had conferred on him a part of the ‘pas
namely, that he should teach the children, especially the:
God.” 32

The teacher should be pledged to the Confessions. —
Dr. C. F. W. Walther delivered the essay at the Iowa District
vention. In discussing the chief responsibilities of the Synigg
emphasized that the first duty of the Synod was to remain {
the Confessions of the Lutheran Church. In this connect
pointed out that the Synod should accept into membershi
those pastors, teachers, and congregations that were true"t@
Confessions of the Lutheran Church. He asserted that tig
should be ordained unless he had been examined and it w:
that he would and could proclaim the pure doctrine of
of God.

Walther pointed to the following confession and pled
manded of those who were to be ordained or installed: “i
the three Ecumenical Creeds, the Unaltered Augsburg
and the Apology of the Augsburg Confession, the Smalcal
the two Catechisms of Martin Luther, andthe Formula of:
as the pure and unadulterated explanation and expositi
Word and His will, and I accept them as my own confess
will execute my office: until my death faithfully and dilig
accordance with these Confessions” (Kirchen-Agenda fuer:
Luth. Gemeinden, St. Louis, 1866, p. 240).

31 I[bid., p. 335.

32 W. Linsenmann, “Ueber den Beruf zum heiligen -Pr
(Pfarramt).” Proceedings, Canada District, II (1880), p. 20.