# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1911_S226
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of Adam come to light. To the honor of God, however, we can also
testify that among the students there prevails a spirit that submits
to the discipline of God's Word.

The practice school, attended by 79 children and standing under
the direction of Professors H. Fehner and J. Link, is proving itself
more and more a beneficial institution for our seminarians; at the
same time it also meets every requirement that may be set for a
well-ordered parish school.

So much by way of review. Now a few requests concerning the
needs of our school which we would have to lay before a Reverend
Synod.

1. May the Reverend Synod, at this convention, grant our
request already made three years ago, namely to raise our
professors' salaries in keeping with present-day conditions. Your
board of control unfortunately found itself obliged last year to ask
the General Treasurer for provisional assistance.

2. May the Reverend Synod grant the sum of $1650.00 for
installing steam heating in the old dormitory. What drives us to
this request is the constant fire danger to which students and
property are exposed through stove heating. The sum just given
will, according to the testimony of experts, cover all costs.

3. Our third request concerns the erection of a music building
of our own. That we venture to bring this petition before the
Reverend Synod has a twofold reason: first, the great necessity of
such a building, which surely no one will dispute once he hears, a.,
that the musical instruments stand in a dank, damp basement —
what that means for a piano, anyone who owns one knows; b., that
the basement is divided into small rooms by simple board partitions,
so that the sound of one instrument carries into the next student's
room, which is very disturbing to those practicing; c., that there is
also no other place available to put the instruments. Since, then,
music instruction in a teachers' seminary is no incidental or even
superfluous matter but a very necessary one — for it is demanded of
our teachers, who are trained here, that they meet the musical
requirements placed on them in church and school — everyone must,
on the strength of the facts stated above, grant that a music
building of its own for Seward is no luxury but an urgent necessity,
needed to remedy a wretched state of affairs.

The Nebraska District of our Reverend Synod has likewise
recognized this, and accordingly resolved, at its convention last
October, to grant $10,000.00 for the erection of such a building.
Even if this whole sum will not be raised within our district, certainly
the greater part of it will be.