# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S1050
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dition, he stated

308 PARISH EDUCATION
Since the teacher’s offic
e, next to that of the
most mubortant office in the church, a person should th
fe) ce if he stepped into the pastorate itself, or if h Mm nly leave

gregation. In proof of this claim, he cited 1 Cor 12:
counted the teachers among the “helps.” For this r ;
: at the teacher had a divine office and that he we ne as.
in this office so long as it pleased God. * was to Stay

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him accordingly.
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PARISH EDUCATION 509

“emphasized further that the teacher’s office, as it exists
us, is seriously harmed by the teacher himself when he be-
dolent because he has a lifelong call, when he does not
Hy continue in his studies, when he does not stay within the
ies of his position and wants to be looked upon as a kind
Hitional pastor in the congregation, and when he does not live
mes a servant of the Word.38 :
i complaint that teachers were charged special dues without
itted to vote. — In 1899 it was reported that some teach-
complained about being expected to contribute two dollars
for Synod’s administrative expenses, for which they also
4yed the synodical reports free. The complaint urged that this
t¢-:bution had been imposed on a minority which had no vote.
4d refused to entertain the validity of the claim and pointed
‘put that the contribution was demanded by Synod’s Constitution,
‘adt by majority vote.%
4 The teacher’s office as a branch of the pastorate.—In 1907
there appeared in Lehre und Wehre an article on the teacher's
office written by L. Dornseif. Dornseif emphasized that the office
~ of the teacher was one that was branched off from the pastorate
and was a part of the pastorate. He stated that the office of the
teacher was an auxiliary office to the public ministry and that
teachers were public servants of the Word. He argued that inas~
much as the congregation utilized the priesthood of all believers
to create a special position and to call another besides the pastor
to teach the children God’s Word and to give them Christian trairi-
ing, the congregation therefore created a branch office or an
auxiliary office to the public ministry. The incumbent of this office
discharges a part of the public ministry in that he publicly teaches
the children God’s Word and seeks to give them Christian training.
Through the call of the congregation to this office and through the
discharge of the duties involved in it, the teacher becomes a public
servant of the Word. .

Dornseif emphasized that the teacher’s office is a divine office,
not in the sense that God has established it in exactly this form,
but because the office is a part and a branch of the public ministry,
which God did found and ordain, and because God calls the in-
cumbent through the congregation. The teachers who have been
called by the congregation are in a divine calling; they are called
by God, because they are co-workers with the pastors in Word and

88 H. S d, “Thesen, den Beruf der Gemeindeschullehrer un-
serer Synode und die Anstellung von Lehrerinnen innerhalb derselben
betreffend.” Schulblatt, XXXII (Nov., 1897), pp. 330—32.

89 Proceedings, Mo. Synod, XXIV (1899), pp. 127—29.

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