# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1905_S169
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11th Delegate Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States, 1905. 169

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"Once our committee had satisfied itself that enough material had been sent in for a good school exhibit, the question arose of how best to house and display it. We had already earlier applied to the World's Fair officials for space. This was also readily granted us, to which it contributed no little that Messrs. ex-Mayor J. Koch of Milwaukee, Governor La Follette, and Senator Spooner of Wisconsin, and Senator Hopkins of Illinois, spoke up vigorously on our behalf. Indeed, we found the officials of the World's Fair friendly and accommodating at every turn, more so than we had expected. We were pleasantly surprised that, when the space was allotted in December 1903, we received official notice that we had been assigned one of the best locations in the Palace of Education.

"It now remained to have the space assigned to us fitted out for our exhibit. In doing so, certain regulations set by the exposition's officials naturally had to be followed, and we succeeded in having a modest but tasteful exhibition booth built, which received the approval of the exposition authorities. On opening day we were among the few exhibitors in the Palace of Education whose exhibit was, for the most part, finished.

"What, then, did we actually exhibit, and what principles did we follow in gathering the material?

"Above all, our school exhibit was meant to be a resounding testimony to God's goodness and grace, which gave our Synod this great treasure, a Christian school and Christian schooling. And indeed, this purpose was achieved. Among all the many exhibits of all the nations, ours was the only exhibit of a Christian school system. And on the walls, in the schoolbooks, from the Synod's publications laid out for inspection, every visitor could see that we have a Christian school system richly blessed by our God, and that we give him praise and thanks for it. The many thousands of pupils' papers on one of the Bible stories or on a section of the catechism spoke to this just as loudly. Two pamphlets as well, one in German and the other in English, on the origin and development of our Lutheran school system, bore witness to this.