# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S397
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INTERSYNODICAL AND DOCTRINAL MATTERS 397

» that the teacher was not in the public ministry, but
lic servant of the Word.— An article by Speckhard in
att of 1897 also discussed the teacher’s office. Speckhard
‘that the teacher was not in the public ministry or the
He was not a pastor, but he was a public servant of the
peckhard thus assumed that a person can be a public serv-
ne Word without being a pastor. He maintained that all
ifusion about the office of the teacher had come from con-
a thing in the abstract which did not exist in the abstract.
rted that one can speak of the ministry in the abstract,
‘a Christian congregation from the time of its organization
Pfarramt in the abstract, since it has God’s command to
. the pastorate according to divine regulation.

ard maintained that one cannot speak of the teacher’s -
the abstract because it does not exist in the congregation
ecial office in the abstract. He asserted that the Bible no-
ommanded a congregation to establish the office of the
and nowhere did it treat of the qualifications, rights, etc.,
ffice. Speckhard called the teacher’s office ‘a divine call,
he congregation, in the exercise of its Christian liberty and
building of the church, had established the office according
will of God. He stated that the teacher should not doubt
has a divine call. ;
khard stated that the teacher’s office, as it exists among
riously harmed by the pastor if he does not recognize the
as his fellow servant in the Word and does not deal with

mphasized that the teacher’s office, as it exists among us,
y harmed by the congregation, among other ways, when
u good reason they appoint women teachers. He stressed the
ance and blessing of trained teachers and of teachers who
e teaching their lifework. The first of these conditions, he
ras seldom met by our women teachers; the second con-
he stated, could never be met, because God had directed
§ a'‘different calling as their real calling.

, emphasized further that the teacher’s office, as it exists
, is seriously harmed by the teacher himself when he be-
‘indolent because he has a lifelong call, when he does not
ly continue in his studies, when he does not stay within the
ies of his position and wants to be looked upon as a kind
tional pastor in the congregation, and when he does not live
mies a servant of the Word.38

iodo und di “Thesen, den Beruf der Gemeindeschullehrer un-
e und die Anstellung von Lehrerinnen innerhalb derselben
” Schulblatt, XXXII (Nov., 1897), pp. 330—32.