# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1902_S47
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Tenth Delegate Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States, 1902. 47

...brought to a proper understanding. Reading French, too, should be
practiced, for the sake of pronunciation.

"All our institutions, especially the Gymnasiums, have over time been
furnished with fine, well-stocked natural-science cabinets. How does
matters stand with this at Addison? It is precisely to this area of
instruction at the Addison seminary that quite special attention ought to
be given. The teacher who is to teach these subjects, who is to bring home
to the children, by means of reading pieces or in geography lessons, the
beauty of nature and the wise ordering of God within it, knows too little
of natural science unless he has, through self-study, learned more than
the seminary's curriculum prescribes. The whole situation at the seminary,
too, especially its location, would make it exceedingly pleasant for the
student if, in his leisure hours, he could occupy himself with studies for
which he would find guidance in the natural-science cabinet. So much for
our urgent request.

"This request may, to be sure, appear in some points to be pitched rather
high; but whoever has followed school conditions in our country must
recognize that, as regards instruction in the secular branches, we may
not remain at the old standpoint and content ourselves with the barest
necessities. Here, if anywhere, the word holds true: 'Adapt yourselves to
the times.' Our parish school is a salt in this land whose worth we
cannot value highly enough, a jewel that requires the utmost care.
Therefore everything should also be done to train capable men who know
how to preside well over our parish schools in every respect. Then our
congregations, too, will all the more willingly bring the sacrifices
necessary for the upkeep of our schools." (Petition of the Fort
Wayne Pastoral and Teachers' Conference.)

1. Resolved, that $3000.00 be granted for procuring an entirely new
organ to replace the one, thirty-three years old and worn out with age,
"in the old assembly hall" — and for rebuilding the "new organ in the new
assembly hall."

2. Resolved, that the seminary at Addison be granted, with regard to
its library and natural-science cabinet, the same privileges that have
been granted to the Synod's other educational institutions.

3. Resolved, that the foregoing petition of the Fort Wayne Pastoral
and Teachers' Conference be placed, for preliminary deliberation, in the
hands of a committee of 7 persons to be appointed by the Praesidium — the
seventh person to be the General President himself — with the charge that
this committee report to the next Delegate Synod, or submit whatever
proposals it may have.