# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1911_S78
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78 Proceedings of the 28th General or

gained a firm footing here and, thank God, are just now beginning to
spread. If, however, we look at the small number of our congregations
and schools, almost all of which are still young, then the attendance
at our institution can be called about normal and satisfactory in
comparison with that in our synod as a whole; and we have well-founded
hope that it will rise considerably further in the coming years. We
are now teaching 18 students in the three lower classes; and since
from the fall on we will again have a third-year class, which we lack
this school year, we may, with a reasonably favorable intake into the
sixth-year class, count on 25 students. We therefore have every
reason to acknowledge the Lord's blessing with gratitude and to look
into the future in full trust in the grace of God.

Finally, as for the needs of our institution, insofar as the Reverend
General Synod is concerned in them, we would have several, though
only small, requests to submit.

1. Owing to a lack of space in our institution's building, and also
for other reasons, we found ourselves compelled to rent lodging for
our director in the immediate vicinity of the institution. We ask
that the Reverend General Synod approve this step, which we took out
of necessity and after careful deliberation, and instruct its
treasurer to pay the rental costs of $25.00 per month, beginning
January 1, 1911.

2. We recommend and ask that Prof. Jonas's salary be raised to
$1,000.00 a year plus free housing, since it is not possible for him
and his family to get by on the previous salary of $65.00 a month.

3. When our director, Brohm, moved from Detroit to our institution,
the General Treasurer believed he was not authorized, without a
specific resolution of the synod, to pay out the moving costs in the
amount of $293.15. We therefore found ourselves compelled to borrow
the said sum, and now ask that this sum be reimbursed from the
General Synodical Treasury, since the moving costs must surely also
be counted as part of the professors' compensation, to which the
Reverend General Synod has obligated itself.

4. Finally, we would like to permit ourselves the modest inquiry
whether it would not be fitting to express the synod's thanks to
teacher H. G. Röcker for his selfless service in giving instruction
in singing, and perhaps also to show such thanks in the future through
a small honorarium.

In commending our institution now to the faithful love and care of the
whole synod, we ask the God of all grace that he would continue to
prosper the work of our hands among us, to the honor of his name and
the true welfare of his kingdom. —

Resolved:

1. to authorize $25.00 per month for the rent of a professor's
residence, beginning January 1, 1911;