# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1911_S73
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13th Delegate Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States, 1911. 73

acquire. The girls are on the institution's premises only during class
hours. As other lodging, we had rented a dormitory last year for the
girls from our circles, where a Lutheran matron had charge. Since,
however, we do not have a sufficient number of girls for this this
year, we have placed them in private homes.

Had these departments (the Business Department and coeducation) not
already been connected with the institution as a secondary purpose,
we probably would not have introduced them. But now we thought:
"Don't spoil it; there may be a blessing in it!" And in this view we
have, over time, despite some misgivings, become more and more
confirmed, so that the Kansas District, at its last session, resolved
to ask the General Synod to retain these existing arrangements (the
Business Department and coeducation).

In this way we would to some extent meet the needs of our time. We
would offer our growing youth the opportunity to receive further
sound instruction here for this life; and we would also protect them
from the poison of unbelief and false belief and from the spirit of
the world that prevails in the state institutions, high schools, and
business colleges of the world, guiding them to the fear of God,
which is the beginning of all wisdom, and so help keep them for the
Church.

One More Resolution of the Kansas District, and Some Recommendations
of the Board of Oversight.

In view of the resolution of the last General Synod, "to encourage
the Kansas District to take charge of this institution for the coming
triennium," and since continued maintenance of the institution
alongside its large mission field is becoming too heavy a burden for
the district, and since it is also, in the district's judgment, in
the institution's best interest, the Kansas District at its last
session unanimously adopted the following resolution:

"Resolved, to ask and move the General Synod, at its session in May
1911, to take St. John's College entirely into its own care and
keeping, like the other full gymnasiums in the individual districts;
but that the Kansas District retain responsibility for paying off any
debts, with the exception of the sum of $983.06 (now $918.06)
authorized by the General Board of Oversight for the furnace."

The synod should now also elect its own board of oversight for the
institution.

We, the board of oversight, consider it our duty to bring a few more
of the institution's needs to the attention of the Reverend General
Synod: