# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1911_S215
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Memorials for the Delegate Synod 1911.

Reports of the boards of control of our schools.

Concordia Seminary at St. Louis, Mo.

The board of control of the seminary at St. Louis submits the
following report to the Reverend General Synod on the past
triennium.

By God's grace our seminary has, in this triennium too, served
the purpose for which it was originally founded. Praise and thanks
be to God for that. Indeed, we have particular cause for such praise
of God when we consider how greatly the school is now fulfilling its
purpose. The number of students is in fact almost a third larger
than it was at the time of the last report. In the school year
1908–1909 it rose to 243, in 1909–1910 to 281, and this school
year we count as many as 296 students. Correspondingly, in 1909
61 left the school for the holy preaching office, in 1910 there were
87, and the number of this year's candidates is 86. On the whole,
one also notices that the young men keep their goal before their
eyes and devote themselves wholly to preparing for it. One can see
that one is dealing with men who fear God and love their Savior.
Naturally there is no lack of faults and failings in this regard; but
that we can say no gross excesses have occurred is certainly cause
for thanks, especially in view of the large number.

There are no changes to report in the personnel of the faculty.
Every subject of the theological course is staffed by exceedingly able
and capable teachers, who fear God's Word and do not spare
themselves but serve God's cause at our school with the full exertion
of their powers. And God has evidently blessed their work richly.
Unfortunately a disruption occurred this school year in systematic
theology, the chief subject of the course of instruction, in that Dr.
Pieper, soon after its start, was compelled by his weakened health to
discontinue his lectures on dogmatics, and up to this date he has not
been able to resume them. On the doctor's advice he traveled to
California to recover, and after his return in February he has
ventured to give only pastoral theology. What had long been feared
has come to pass: that the double office would demand more of the
man's strength than he possesses, to the detriment not so much of
the Synod's business — for