# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1911_S67
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13th Delegate Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States, 1911. 67

present a worship service kindling new love for our precious Church
in those present, one that will remain unforgettable to those who
took part in it.

After considering the arguments on all sides, the board of oversight
had decided to continue instruction in New York until the Christmas
vacation and only then move to the institution, which would meanwhile
be thoroughly heated. A few days before the joyful Christmas feast,
our students, with a heartfelt "God repay you!," left the homes of
their benefactors until then, in order, after a short stay in their
parents' homes, to report for new work at Concordia in Bronxville on
January 4, 1910.

But work has been done diligently not only on the exterior
construction, but also on the interior development. We would like to
make this institution accessible also to those who wish to acquire a
higher education without setting the holy preaching office as the
goal of their studies from the outset. It can only be a blessing to
the Church of God, as well as to the state, if there are quite a good
many laymen grounded in the saving truth and thoroughly equipped with
worldly knowledge. We would certainly be ill-advised and disastrously
shortsighted if we did not strive to have our higher schools produce
men who might one day, as statesmen, judges, physicians, lawyers, and
businessmen, serve the general welfare of their people — men whose
conscience is bound to God's Word, and who let themselves be guided
in their positions by the will of our eternal Judge. But if we are to
make a serious start in this direction, we are compelled to use the
English language as the medium of instruction in certain subjects in
the lower classes. Even now our professors, especially in the lower
classes, must explain most things in English. Our youth is, after
all, already more English than we often want to admit, and so we
should no longer hesitate, even at this higher school of ours, but
should, for the good of the future American Lutheran Church, grant
the English language now the right that we will have to give it
later anyway — once we have been made wise by hard experience. It
would be desirable for the delegate synod to endorse the wish of the
Atlantic District, which resolved at its last meeting: "It is the
opinion of the Atlantic District that the board of oversight of the
gymnasium at Bronxville should be authorized, as far as the use of
the English language as the medium of instruction is concerned, to
accommodate itself to the needs of the present time."

In order to offer our students as much sound instruction as possible
in the field of chemistry and physics, the board of oversight secured
the services this school year of Mr. A. Pouleur, who, after completing
his studies at Harvard University, had taught for a time in Buffalo.
Salary and rent for this seventh, and without doubt quite capable,
teacher are for the present paid by our Lutheran Education Society.