# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1914_S37
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14th Delegate Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States, 1914. 37

Concordia Gymnasium [preparatory school], Fort Wayne, Ind.

The worthy board of control of this institution felt obliged to send
the Synod the following very detailed communications:

Our institution has, during the past three years, had a richly
blessed course by God's grace.

1. Enrollment during these three years was higher than in the
previous triennium. It stood at 269 in 1911/12; 292 in 1912/13, the
highest number in the institution's history; and 266 in 1913/14.

To be lamented is the large number of students who give up their
studies again without cause.

2. The students have, in general, submitted to the discipline of
God's word. This is, to be sure, not to say that many faults of the
flesh, indeed even grave falls into sin, have not occurred. Even
disciplinary cases requiring the removal of some students from the
institution have not been spared the institution. — Every Christian
knows that in those of youthful age, the flesh lusts especially
strongly against the spirit. When, then, among so large a company of
young men at our institution, gross outbreaks of the flesh are
recorded in only a small number, and when in most students the
spirit wages the fight against the flesh, that is something for
which we must thank God. Indeed, we have good cause, first, to thank
God for exposing impure spirits so that they can be removed; second,
to pray still more earnestly for this and all our educational
institutions; and third, to bring to our institutions only such
students as show a Christian, obedient disposition and a genuine
earnestness in sanctification.

3. The state of the students' health was very good. Two students,
however, were called out of this life by what we may confidently
hope was a blessed death.

4. The so-called military system at our institution has again
proven itself excellent during these three years.

5. We can testify of the faculty that it attends to its office
conscientiously and faithfully and confronts, with one mind and in
the right spirit, the deficiencies and shortcomings of the
institution that come to light, as well as the individual students'
offenses. — Director Lücke has used the right means of education,
namely God's word, not only in the religion classes assigned to him
but also in his oversight of the students and in all his dealings
with them; he has shown himself a true pastor and father of the
household to the institution, and has, under God's gracious help,
visibly administered his difficult, responsible office to the
institution's benefit.

6. To our great regret we must report that an important and
long-serving member of the faculty, our dear