# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1923_S11
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Ey. Luth. Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States. 1923. 11

prings, La.; Cand. H. E. Wallner, Isle of Pines, Cuba; Cand. K.
‘fmand, Albany, Ala. . ;

Texas. DISTRICT. — Pastor: W. Seidel, Rhea, Tex..  -

Western District. — Pastors: Arnold H. L. Gebhardt, Foreign
Missions; Cand. L. W. Wickham, St. Louis, Mo.; Cand. J. G. Elser,
Tp., Mo.; Cand. W. Keisker, Flat River, Mo.; Cand. Frank
J: Zixbel, Waldenburg, Ark.

EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS.

I. General Resolutions.
‘(German Report, p. 28 f.).

_Course of Study.

The Survey Committee reported that the preparation of a plan
of instruction for our higher educational institutions given into the
hands of representatives of various colleges, the St. Louis Seminary,
and the Survey Committee by the convention of 1920 could not be ©
fully carried out. This committee was continued until this work will
have been completed.

Board of Education and Educational Secretary.

The proposal to create a Board of Education with a paid Edu-
-eational Secretary to supervise the work of the higher educational
institutions was rejected.

Conference of President of Synod and Directors of Educational
Institutions.

Synod resolved that the Directors of the various colleges and
seminaries shall meet with the President of’ Synod immediately pre-
ceding the professors’ conference to consult about governing the
institutions and executing Synod’s resolutions.

Ladies’ Seminary.

Synod declined to erect a Ladies’ Seminary. Instead, “the Dis-
tricts were urged to provide Lutheran Centers and chapels in the
Ammediate vicinity of a number of colleges and universities.

Higher Education of Our Young People. .

1. Recognizing the grave dangers to Christian corisciousness ~
which the trend of our time is bringing with it, Synod declared
‘itself of the opinion that our young people ought ‘at least to attend
a Lutheran elementary, or parochial, ‘school.

2. Synod acknowledged that the welfare of the Church would be