# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1911_S253
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written papers that the professor must check in the evening — with Professor Wessel, for example, no fewer than six hundred — and this without even counting certain weekly tests.

3. Given the sheer number of different subjects, class hours, and written papers, our professors, under this strain — indeed overstrain — of their energies, can scarcely keep up with current scholarship in their various disciplines, let alone continue their own studies. How, then — however greatly to be desired it is — are they to find time besides to look into other theological fields and further their own development?

That this state of affairs cannot turn out well for our professors, our students, and our whole church is easy to see. Not only must thorough work at our school suffer, but our teachers are also being worn out before their time and repeatedly driven to the brink of nervous breakdown.

We are convinced that our Synod, by and large, does not know how heavily our teachers at Springfield are burdened with work, how high — indeed too high — the demands placed on them are. We fear no contradiction when we say that scarcely anything like this is expected of teachers at any of the Synod's other institutions of higher learning.

By establishing a sixth professorship, our seminary teachers would be noticeably relieved, their strength preserved and increased for the church, and thereby an invaluable service rendered to the cause of our institution, which is, after all, the institution of our glorious Savior.

In all modesty, the Central Illinois District hereby asks the Honorable Delegate Synod for the establishment of a new, sixth professorship at their theological seminary at Springfield, Ill.

With due respect, signed on behalf and by commission of the Central Illinois District,
E. Berthold, Secretary.
Friedr. Brand, President.
Springfield, Ill., March 15, 1911.

Relocation of the Seminary Department at Addison.

To the Honorable Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States, assembled as the 13th Delegate Synod at St. Louis, Mo., from May 10 to 20, 1911.

Honored and beloved fathers and brothers!

With great joy we perceive with what interest, in every part of the Synod, eyes are turning toward Addison, and how in every heart the conviction is making headway: that for this, our oldest teachers' seminary, something quite special must finally happen,