# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S398
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

398 INTERSYNODICAL AND DOCTRINAL MATTERS

A complaint that teachers were charged special dues
being permitted to vote. —In 1899 it was reported that. s
ers had complained about being expected to contribute
a year for Synod’s administrative expenses, for which
received the synodical reports free. The complaint urge i
contribution had been imposed on a minority which had:
Synod refused to entertain the validity of the claim and
out that the contribution was demanded by Synod’s Const
not by majority vote.39

The teacher’s office as a branch of the pastorate,
there appeared in Lehre und Wehre an article on the

‘office written by L. Dornseif. Dornseif emphasized that
of the teacher was one that was branched off from thé
and was a part of the pastorate. He stated that the offices;
teacher was an auxiliary office to the public ministry “arg
teachers were public servants of the Word. He argued
much as the congregation utilized the priesthood of all.
to create a special position and to call another besides. 4
to teach the children God’s Word and to give them Chris
ing, the congregation therefore created a branch office’
auxiliary office to the public ministry. The incumbent of.th
discharges a part of the public ministry in that he publicly
. the children God’s Word and seeks to give them Christian’
Through the call of the congregation to this office and thro
discharge of the duties involved in it, the teacher becomes
servant of the Word.

Dornseif emphasized that the teacher’s office is a di
not in the sense that God has established it in exactly
but because the office is a part and a branch of the publ.
which God did found and ordain, and because God calls:
cumbent through the congregation. The teachers who
called by the congregation are in a divine calling; they
by God, because they are co-workers with the pastors in |
doctrine. They are servants of the Word to children, and
undershepherds of the shepherd of the congregation.49

Teachers are servants of the church but not in the pub
istry. — In 1914 F. Pieper discussed in Lehre und Wehr
tion whether a Christian congregation should not appoi
who would not teach and rule the entire congregation
tivities, but who would have outstanding gifts to serve th
gation as rulers and elders, as teachers, and as almoners

som,

OY

39 Proceedings, Mo. Synod, XXIV (1899), pp. 127—29.. .
40 L. Dornseif, “Die Stellung des Pastors und‘ Lehrers zueit
Lehre und Wehre (June, 1907), p. 246. .