# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1905_S27
# AI translation — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

11th Delegate Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States, 1905. 27

...excepted, of whom one ended in death,*) the state of health was
quite good.

"It is only to be regretted that the number of students has not
increased. In the academic year 1902 to 1903 we had 183; 1903 to 1904,
170; 1904 to 1905, 169 students. The number of candidates is as
follows: 1903: 60; 1904: 50; 1905: 57. For the next triennium,
however, a considerable increase in the number of students is now in
prospect.

"The Seminary's property has been kept in good condition, without the
expenditures for it having been unusually high. We may also report
here that, since 1903, a splendid Luther monument, a faithful copy of
the Worms monument, has adorned the square in front of the Seminary.
The Luther and Walther Memorial Society erected it, and the board
believed it should give its consent with thanks and joy. — Nor, in
these years again, have there been lacking dear Christians who have
remembered our institution in their bequests. Thus a Mrs. Boos of
Philadelphia bequeathed $236.00 to the student fund. To the Seminary
itself $1,000.00 came from the estate of the late Riesenberg of St.
Louis, and a Mrs. Hild of Gretna, La., remembered the institution with
a bequest of about $4,000.00. Also, from a gift (from an unnamed donor
from Illinois), $500.00 flowed to the student fund.

"By two deaths our institution has been quite severely visited. In
June 1904 Mr. Eduard Junghans was called away by sudden death. In him
we lost a faithful member of the board of control, who had served the
institution for five years with special skill and great self-denial.
The board has temporarily filled the vacancy by appointing Mr. H. F.
Bente of St. Louis. — In October 1903 Mr. D. Gräbner was compelled to
discontinue his lectures in order, on his doctor's advice, to seek a
milder climate. From month to month we hoped for his recovery, but God,
in his unsearchable counsel, had decreed otherwise. In December of last
year the dear man, after long and severe suffering, fell asleep in
blessedness. Much as we must thank God that he granted our Seminary the
faithful, untiring services of this richly gifted...

*) A student who entered the institution afflicted with consumption
and left it again after a short time to seek recovery in Colorado died
there.