# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S408
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

408 INTERSYNODICAL AND DOCTRINAL MATTERS

4. What is the status of the woman teacher?

comparable to those of the regular male teacher, with:
both personal faith and character and professional tre
competence. Her calling does differ in certain respects,
from the call of the male teacher or pastor.

ordinarily involves lifetime tenure, the appointment of thé
woman teacher leaves her free to marry and to assume
responsibilities of married life, though this new status will
make it necessary for her to terminate her professional. s¢
the Church. The conditions of her service are, therefore}:
forth in a “Solemn Agreement,” which remains in force ind
unless dissolved by common consent or for valid reasons |
party. The form of Solemn Agreement now in use in our
states: “Nothing in this appointment and agreement :
construed as interfering with the rights and prerogaté
a woman to terminate her service as a teacher at the end
school year in order to enter upon a woman’s higher. ¢
matrimony and other household duties or to transfer to:
school for good and valid reasons.” Since the Solemn
encourages a tenure continuing at least over a period «
it is advantageous to both the congregation and the teache:
woman teacher may, however, serve under the terms of a
“appointment,” or “contract,” renewable by common co

The congregation obligates itself in this same agr
respect the woman teacher “as a participant in the pub
formance of the office of the ministry,” subject to the ‘Ji
placed upon the members of her sex in 1 Cor. 14:34:
women keep silence in the churches; for it is not permi
them to speak, but they are commanded to be under“o
as also saith the Law,” and 1 Tim. 2:11, 12: “Let the wom
in silence with all subjection. But I suffer not a woman %
nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence

5. What is the status of the Lutheran high school teach

Lutheran high schools are essentially extensions o!
cational program of the regular eight-grade Lutherani
schools. As such they teach and apply the doctrines an
enjoined in God’s Word and the Lutheran Confessions in:
the ‘same manner and with the same objectives in vie
such an advanced program of ‘education cannot ord