# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1878_S26
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...submit to the arrangements of the faculty regarding its teacher who
came into office in an unlawful manner. Should a congregation refuse to
do so, synodical discipline shall be imposed upon it.*

Resolved, that the sum of $30.00 annually already previously granted in
favor of the seminary's library be raised to $50.00 annually.

Whereas good instruction in physics is indispensably necessary for our
students at the teachers' seminary, since nowadays the most complete
possible education is expected of a schoolmaster with regard to physics
as well, but such instruction is fruitless as long as the physics
instruments needed for it are lacking:

Resolved, that the sum of $50.00 annually be granted to the seminary
for the purpose of acquiring the said instruments.

The question was raised whether a two-year course for the seminary
students is sufficient to impart to them the measure of knowledge
demanded of them. It was answered that the actual seminary instruction
is as a rule preceded by three years of preparatory [*Präparanden*]
instruction. A petition from the congregation at Baltimore concerning
instruction in English was read here. Among other things, the petition
states:

"Our congregations increasingly desire good and correct instruction in
the English language in their schools. Should it not therefore be
time to devote somewhat more time and resources to English at our
teachers' seminary in Addison, so that, where possible, every teacher,
before being released from the institution, would be put in a
position to speak and teach it with complete correctness? We fear
that, without this precaution, it will become ever harder for
teachers and congregations to keep the rising generation — especially
also the children of such Germans as belong to none of our
congregations — away from the public [free] schools, and to let them
share in the blessing of Christian instruction."

It was acknowledged that, as in all other subjects, so too in English
more ought to be accomplished at our teachers' seminary; but that this
is impossible with the teaching staff currently available. One must
consider that most of the young men entering the seminary come from
congregations in whose schools they received either very sparse
instruction in English or none at all, since, as is well known, some
congregations simply do not allow instruction in English. Set against
this fact, what is accomplished in English at our seminary

* This resolution shall also apply when students who have run away or
been sent away from the Synod's other educational institutions are
entrusted with a teaching post within our synodical body.