# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1902_S48
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48 Proceedings of the 25th General, or

Second Teachers' Seminary at Seward, Nebr.

"'The LORD hath done great things for us,' so we must boast and confess,
as we set about giving the Reverend General Synod a report on the last
triennium of our institution. We have, indeed, only pleasing things to
report. Three years of our seminary, blessed by God, lie behind us. The
teachers were granted good health in which to attend to their calling,
which they have also done with conscientiousness and faithfulness
according to the gifts bestowed on them.

"As regards the state of health of our students, we can report that it
was excellent; only two cases of serious illness have occurred. The moral
conduct of the students, too, gives no occasion for complaint; a godly
spirit prevails among them. It is a particular joy to us to be able to
report that the number of students has grown steadily and now stands at
51; of these, 35 entered at the beginning of the school year now drawing
to a close.

"As for the external affairs of our institution, we have put up an
addition to the main building, for the erection of which the Reverend
Synod, at its last convention, granted $2000.00. Since, however, the
Board of Control could not have built anything suitable for the purpose
with this sum, the Nebraska District offered to take up collections for
this building. So the building (24 by 44 feet) was undertaken. Although
its cost exceeds the sum granted by the Reverend Synod by $1175.34, this
excess expenditure has, through the willing sacrifice of the Nebraska
District, not only been covered but has even left a surplus of $44.14 to
record. In this addition there is a large hall used both as an assembly
hall and as a lecture hall for combined classes, two living rooms, a
spacious dormitory, and finally a newly furnished washroom on the ground
floor. Although the Board of Control had to incur debt to build this new
washroom, it was nevertheless an unavoidable necessity, since the old
washroom, owing to the growing number of students, had become not only
far too small but was altogether of the most primitive arrangement. The
cost of building the new washroom — cistern, water piping, cementing of
the floor, and washbasins — came to $423.03. The debt still outstanding on
it amounts to $378.89. The Board of Control asks the Reverend Synod to
approve this excess expenditure and to grant the above sum to cover the
debt.

"With that we have already fallen into asking; but we give the assurance
at once, in advance, that they are only modest requests with which we
still come before the Reverend Synod in what follows.

"1. First, we ask the Reverend Synod for the permanent appointment of a
third teacher for our institution; we leave it to the Synod's discretion
whether it wishes to confirm the present assistant teacher or order an
election.