# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1911_S77
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13th Delegate Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States, 1911. 77

California Concordia Gymnasium at East Oakland, Cal.

The board of oversight of this institution, which belongs to the
California and Nevada District, reported to the General Synod as
follows:

The above institution is admittedly still the property of the
California and Nevada District, which endeavors, to the best of its
judgment and means, to provide for its outward needs. But since the
Reverend General Synod has obligated itself to choose and pay the
teaching staff at this, our youngest school of the prophets, it is
certainly not only right and proper, but also necessary and
desirable, that we, on the occasion of its meeting, give a brief
report and thus lay before the whole synod, and lay to its heart, the
welfare, the achievements, and the needs of this institution.

With praise and thanks to the Giver of all gifts and strength, we can
first of all testify that the work at our institution made, during
the past triennium, if not a spectacular advance, still a quiet and
prosperous progress. The few, and for the most part still small,
congregations of our district have made it their honest concern to
further the welfare of this their tender foster child with their
support, so that we suffered no want whatsoever in bodily and earthly
things. In particular, through the institution of two fixed days of
giving each year, our institution has not only had rich blessing flow
to it, but interest in our work has also thereby been awakened and
kept alive in all our circles, as is evident from the fact that in
cash alone, over $4,000.00 came in from our congregations in the last
triennium. In this we may also experience, through God's grace, that
this blessing flows back again into our congregations, in that,
precisely as a result of caring for our pro-gymnasium, they gain more
understanding of, and also take a greater part in, the overall work of
our synod, whose center is, after all, geographically so distant from
them.

Our two dear professors show diligence and faithfulness, zeal and
skill in their work, and the Lord's help and blessing is visibly with
them, so that they discharge their difficult task of teaching four
classes in all the necessary subjects to our full satisfaction. It is
especially worth noting that Christian discipline at the institution
is excellent, and that the relationship between teachers and students
is thoroughly cordial. It should also be gratefully mentioned here
that teacher H. G. Röcker in Oakland has so far given instruction in
singing at our pro-gymnasium without charge.

As for the attendance at our institution, we ask above all that it be
kept in mind that our dear fellow Christians in our district stood,
until recently, rather distant from our system of higher schools, and
must therefore first be educated to appreciate it. It must also be
taken into account that our parish schools, from which we must draw
our students, have only in recent years gained a firm footing here