# Synodical Conference Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1890_S38
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38 Proceedings of the thirteenth convention

courts or at the ballot box, our hearty approval, just as we are also resolved to meet such legislation vigorously in other states, wherever it may be brought forward. To that end we, as the assembled delegate synod, recommend the following measures:

1. To concur in the proposals adopted by the individual district synods, "that a general commission of the Missouri Synod be appointed, which shall have the district commissions report to it, stand by them with advice, obtain opinions from eminent jurists, and publish articles in widely circulated journals."

2. To appoint to this commission the following persons proposed for it: President Schwan, President Niemann, Attorney E. C. Schwan, Teacher Leutner; as advisory members: Prof. Gräbner, Prof. Brohm, Dr. Dümling, Pastor Lindemann, Attorney Tatje, and Prof. Crull.

3. To arrange special collections to procure the necessary funds, and, among other things, to assist those districts which are too weak to bear alone the court costs arising from the struggle against such school laws.

4. To give the advice to those district synods that have not yet dealt with this school question, "to elect a commission whose task it shall be to inform itself exactly about all measures and declarations concerning the school system, to report publicly from time to time on everything important, to see to the publication of suitable articles, to conduct the necessary lawsuits in court, to take care of raising the funds required for this, to inform itself at elections about the position of the candidates, and, where the case arises, to work toward the nomination of candidates acceptable to us."

5. To instruct the general school commission to work together with a commission of the Synodical Conference [*Synodalconferenz*].

The translation into English of the foregoing five points, given by the Synod itself, reads as follows:

1. Whereas the Word of God, our rule of life, enjoins upon all
Christian parents the duty of bringing up their children in the nurt-
ure and admonition of the Lord: therefore all Christians who edu-
cate their children in schools are in duty bound to entrust their chil-
dren, who are not yet confirmed in Christian truth, to such schools
only as secure the education of children in the nurture and admoni-
tion of the Lord, while at the same time it is with us self-understood
that we are willing to make good citizens of our children, to the
utmost of our ability, and that we also endeavor to give them the
best possible schooling in the use of the English language.

2. Whereas in the non-religious public schools, wherever they
are conducted in the sense of the non-religious state, not only Chris-