# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S891
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

46 SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

to attend graduate classes. We have also continued
students from Lutheran synods outside the Synodical:
and from conservative Protestant bodies and foreign:
such as Germany, Australia, and Japan.

Year I Semester II Semester

1950—1951 eB 61
1951—1952 51
1952—1953 6 44

Needs for Further Development

1. Our greatest need for expansion of our Graduate.
an increase in the faculty of Concordia Seminary so tha
are available to offer courses on the graduate level.

2. Attractive scholarships should be provided for*
affiliated churches and missions abroad and for promis;
men in our own midst for the training of future schol:

3. Congregations and mission boards should. be enc
provide financial aid to their pastors and workers, m
sible for them to take refresher courses. -

4. Instructors at our colleges, preparatory schoo .
schools should be encouraged and given some. financiz
graduate study of theology. There are compelling ;
this should be done.

a. We must always be mindful that the instructo:
preparatory schools are laying the foundation for th
training of our future clergy. Most of our instructors
ough theological education in their younger years, and
them had occasion to continue their theological studies..-Bt
have not. These have, of necessity, been so imme
secular subjects of their respective fields of instruction”
find little time for the study of theology. Yet it is highh
that all our instructors be and remain good theologians.

b. We must not overlook the fact that a profound’
taken place in our colleges during the past few de
about 25 or 30 years ago nearly all our instructors r
entire education in our own schools. That is no longe
Today practically all of them have done some work:
colleges or universities, and many of them have spent’
in these secular schools than they did at our own co.
are to be commended for their eagerness to improve
for their respective fields of instruction, and our
richly benefited from it. However, it must also bead
there is danger that in the course of time this may affé
of our schools and the character of our theology:
pened in other church-related colleges, and we must