# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1902_S58
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58 Proceedings of the 25th General, or

into a full Gymnasium, and as to the Board of Control's grounds for
this request, the Synod declared that it would gladly fulfill this
request if circumstances absolutely required it. The latter, however,
did not yet seem to be the case. The matter apparently stood at present
so that it would suffice for the time being if a fourth class, the
Tertia, were added to the existing three classes. At its meeting three
years hence the Synod could then act further in this matter as
circumstances required. Therefore

3. Resolved, that the Synod decline the motion to expand the
Progymnasium at St. Paul into a full Gymnasium already now, but order
that a further class, namely the fourth — the Tertia — be established at
once.

4. Resolved, that for the appropriate fitting out — see 2c of the
report — of the large three-story building already present at the
purchase of the property, the sum of $5000.00 be granted.

5. Resolved, that the wish of the Board of Control expressed under No. 3
of the report be given consideration later on the occasion of another
matter. (See p. 136.)

6. Resolved, that the construction of professors' dwellings be
dispensed with for this time.

St. Paul's Progymnasium at Concordia, Mo.

"In place of the former Prof. E. A. Pankow, who submitted his
resignation — which was also accepted —, Prof. A. Bäpler, most
recently pastor of the congregation at Little Rock, Ark., has been called
and, as the 'Lutheraner' [Der Lutheraner, the Synod's German church
paper] reported at the time, was installed in his office in October 1899
by P. Fr. Rohlfing.

"God has given us in the person of Prof. Bäpler a capable and
conscientious teacher. But not only of him, but also of all the
professors of our institution, the assurance can be given that, to our
best knowledge, they labor under God's blessing with diligence,
faithfulness, conscientiousness, and skill, as we have well satisfied
ourselves through frequent visits to each teacher's instruction hours.
God has also kept all three in good health.

"Likewise the state of health in the institution among the pupils has,
praise God, been an excellent one. God has kept the institution entirely
free of serious illnesses, and even the lighter ailments have been
relatively few.

"The spirit prevailing among the pupils is, thanks to God's grace, such
as one expects where God's Word holds sway.