# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1899_S120
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120 Proceedings of the 24th General, or

"It would well be possible for the members of the boards of control
of the Synod's various educational institutions to submit proposals
to the Reverend Synod, following the aforesaid principle, for setting
the salaries of the various professors. The Reverend Synod should
likewise proceed by the same principle in the granting of pensions
and the like." (Petition of the pastoral conference of the Central
District.)

"To a Reverend Delegate Synod the Committee, which was given the
task of reviewing and regulating the salaries of the professors at the
Synod's educational institutions, as well as the pensions, hereby
reports as follows:

"Your Committee has, in the regrettably short time allotted to it,
sought to carry out the task given it by the Reverend Synod, using
every means available to it (such as counsel, information on the
circumstances of the individual professors), with great earnestness
and conscientiousness.

"Your Committee has been guided by the rules recognized by a Reverend
Synod according to which salarying is to be conducted, and has acted
on the principle of love — 1 Tim. 5:17: 'Let the elders that rule
well' etc., and Rom. 15:27: 'For if the Gentiles have been made
partakers of their spiritual things, their duty is also to minister
unto them in carnal things' — it has taken particular note of whether
these are men who have grown gray in the Synod's service, indeed are
almost consumed in and through faithful service.

"Your Committee has also acted on the principle of justice, resting
on 1 Tim. 5:18: 'The labourer is worthy of his reward'; further, it
has not failed to weigh the needs of the individual professors'
families, and has accordingly taken into consideration whether a
large or small family has been granted by God, whether provisions are
cheap or dear in the place concerned, whether the family is often or
will be visited with the beloved cross of sickness, etc., and whether
filial duties toward aged parents must be fulfilled, etc.

"Your Committee has also strictly observed whether the professors
serve at full institutions or preparatory institutions (at seminaries
and gymnasia, or pro-seminaries and pro-gymnasia)." (Excerpt from the
report of the Committee for the purpose of fixing the professors'
salaries and pensions.)

Resolved, that the salaries at the full institutions — St. Louis,
Springfield, Fort Wayne, Milwaukee, and Addison — be left continuing
as they were granted to the individuals by synodical resolution, with
the exception of the director of the institution at Fort Wayne, who
formerly had $1300.00 and shall now receive $1200.00, so as to place
him on an equal footing with the directors of the other full
institutions.

Resolved, that the following salaries be fixed for the named
professors at the preparatory institutions: 1. St. Paul: Director
Bünger $1100.00; Prof. Arndt $1000.00; Prof. Jürgensen $900.00. —