# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1956_S296
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

PARISH EDUCATION 295

substitution of achievement tests for the quarterly reviews.
Teachers who are using the tests are very much pleased with
results.

The Children’s Hymnal. — This hymnal was published in 1955
and is already enjoying a good circulation. In keeping with instruc-
tions from Synod, the. committee made a large selection of hymns
from The Lutheran Hymnal, about 60 per cent of the total. Hymns
of good quality, many of them simpler hymns suited to children,
complete the selection. There is a special section entitled “Re-
sources for Worship” containing liturgies, creeds, psalms and
Scripture readings, Luther’s Small Catechism, and prayers for
Sunday school and private use.

Missionary Education. — Beginning with the July 1956 issue
of the Concordia Sunday School Teacher, mission-story talks will
be provided for the children on two levels. These mission materials
are provided in co-operation with the Department of Stewardship,
Missionary Education and Promotion. These talks are intended to
promote the observance of a monthly Mission Sunday. The
purpose of the talks is to acquaint the children with the great
missionary enterprises of our church and to train them for their
threefold missionary prerogative: praying, giving, soul-winning.
Weekly offering envelopes, introduced some years ago, have become
increasingly popular. They are listed in the Concordia Publishing
House Catalog. These envelopes are an efficient means of training
children to practice regular and planned giving to the church.

Memory Courses. — One of the problems of the Sunday school
teacher is to induce children to memorize precious gems of truth
and thereby to accumulate a priceless treasure for their journey
through life. Some memory materials are offered in the Sunday
school lessons, but they do not constitute a planned memory course.
Besides, memory drill and review prove difficult when the materials
are scattered throughout the pupil’s book. To encourage systematic
memory work, the Board has published memory courses at various
times. Three such courses are listed in the catalog. A brightly
illustrated memory book for four- and five-year-olds, entitled
Jesus Loves Me, is also available.

Sunday School Associations. — For many years the Board has
advocated circuit Sunday school associations throughout all Dis-
tricts, and it is happy to report that meetings are being held
regularly in most circuits. The success of these meetings depends
on the quality of the programs offered by the program committee.
Two source books were prepared in 1950 and 1951 to help com-
mittees in planning. So successful were these source books that
the Board decided to publish materials each year for the spring