# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1854_S288
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the material duly covered and a method suited to the subject matter be
followed.

§ 3. Should his reminders on this point go unheeded, he is to report
this, as the supervisory body sees fit. Should even such a report
remain fruitless, notice is first to be given to the general Präses
and, if necessary thereafter, to the general Synod.

§ 4. He has the paternal governance over the students, and general
oversight of the director of the gymnasium as such.

§ 5. The director of the gymnasium has oversight of the pupils of
this department with regard to discipline and conduct, honest
diligence during study hours, behavior during play and recreation
hours, cleanliness and order, and observance of the house rules
generally.

St. Louis, Mo., July 1, A.D. 1854.

F. W. Husmann, Secretary of the Synod.

The Academy Matter.

Concerning the planned academy at Fort Wayne, the writer of these
minutes read aloud a proposal, drawn up on behalf of the committee
appointed last year for this matter, for the establishment of such an
institution, accompanied by a few remarks.

The Synod again expressed its conviction that such an institution
was timely and desirable; it also declared that it recognized Fort
Wayne as the most suitable place for its establishment, and
encouraged the committee to continue the work it had begun. The wish
and hope were expressed that the Synod's preachers, especially in its
eastern part, even if not their entire congregations (which, given
the necessary increase in the salaries of the professors at our
church educational institutions, as well as the currently planned
increase in teaching staff there, would likely already be called upon
heavily enough) — that at least the well-off, means-having members of
those congregations be encouraged toward active and energetic
participation in the establishment and founding of the institution,
and then, in the course of the year, report to the relevant committee
on the success of their efforts, so as to give it a certain material
basis on which to found its further steps. The Synod also believed
that, given the importance of such an institution and the success to
be expected under God's blessing, it would be no presumption, if
necessary, to borrow a small amount of capital for it. The Synod
resolved to have 500 to 1000 copies of the written proposal
communicated to it printed and distributed among the preachers and
other synodical members.

Mission Report.

The mission commission had submitted to the Synod a very thorough
report on the condition and needs of our mission among the Indians in
the State of Michigan, which was handed over to a committee for
examination and report. — From this report of the mission commission
it emerges that our mission to the heathen in the State of Michigan
has been reduced to a single station, namely Bethany. — The commission
carried out the resolution adopted by the Synod at last year's
convention to propose to the Indians at Shebahyonk that they resettle
at Bethany, because there they could more easily and better be
reached by the preaching of the