# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1878_S25
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...create serious obstacles. 2. Nevertheless it must be admitted that
cases do occasionally arise in which sending out a student to assist is
urgently called for. 3. Establishing governing principles does not seem
advisable. The elasticity from which regulations of this kind suffer
would necessarily defeat their purpose. Specifying particular cases
proves impracticable, if only because of the great variety of
circumstances to be taken into account in any individual case. 4. The
decision in an individual case should be left to the faculty at Addison
together with the institution's president, and must, in every case, at
the same time be made dependent on the willingness of the student in
question, respectively the consent of his parents or guardians. In the
case of a student's prolonged absence, it should moreover be left to
the faculty's discretion whether the missed instructional time is to be
counted against his term of schooling or not." (See the report of the
Illinois District of 1876, p. 82.)

Resolved, that the foregoing resolutions passed in Quincy concerning
the lending of seminary students to congregations be approved, with an
amendment to point 4.

Resolved, that the wording of point 4 be amended to read: "The
decision in an individual case shall be left to the faculty at Addison
together with the institution's president. Should a student, however,
be requested for assistance for a period longer than a quarter year,
making it necessary to extend his term at the seminary, then the
consent of the student in question, as well as of his parents or
guardians, should be obtained for this."

Whereas it has occurred that congregations within the Synod have
without further ado hired as teachers students who had been dismissed
from the institution — a practice that without question implies
disrespect toward the Synod and its officers —;

whereas it must also necessarily be assumed that, in doing so, the
faculty is most grossly maligned by those responsible;

and whereas, finally, discipline at the institution must necessarily
suffer as a result:

Resolved, that such students as have left the seminary of their own
accord, or who have been dismissed from the seminary, may be entrusted
with a teaching post by a synodical congregation only if the faculty
gives its consent to it. In some cases it will be necessary for the
student concerned to return to the seminary; but in all cases the
consent of the teaching staff to such students' taking up teaching
posts is indispensable. Should a congregation act contrary to this
resolution, it shall be issued a serious reprimand, and it shall
further be required, after the fact, to