# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1926_S29
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Ev. Luth. Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States. 1926. 29

Report of the Building Committee of Concordia’ Seminary
to Delegate Synod, St. Louis, June 9-18, 1926.

The Building Committee of Concordia Seminary is able to
. Yeport with fervent thanks to the Lord of the Church that the new
plant of our St. Louis Seminary will be ready for occupancy by
. students and professors at the opening of the new scholastic year.
e All honor and glory for this successful completion of the largest
. building operation in the history of the Lutheran Church is due to
_ God alone. With His gracious help we have surmounted all diffi-
culties, He has preserved us from outward interference by the

elements and by man, and has protected those who labored on the
" plant, so that not a single case-of fatal injury has occurred. These
buildings stand as a monument of faith in divine help and of the
gratitude of a gréat Church for the blessings which it has received
' from a Christian, an orthodox Lutheran, ministry.

It is not out of place, I believe, at this time to express thé
_ Committee’s heartfelt thanks for certain services which have been
rendered by others, services indispensable for the successful execu-
' tion of the synodical resolution of 1923, which directed that Plan A
» be executed at a cost of $2,500,000. We refer, above all, to the
. services of the Ways and Means Committee, which in 1923—24
_ directed the collection of the amounts necessary for the triennium’s
Building Program. The efficient, yet evangelical, manner in which
_ this committee performed its task resulted in the great outpouring
-. of gifts, which has enabled Synod’s officers to carry out the program
: adopted at Fort Wayne.

Again, the Committee desires to express its thanks to the many

hundreds of members of Synod, laymen as well as pastors, who have
aided us with counsel and suggestions. Their names are too many
to mention here, but we beg leave to assure them that their interest
, and thoughtful advice has been of great, yes, of material help in
- many details of the Committee’s work.

° Nor shall we refrain from giving utterance here to our appre-
: giation of the work of our architects and contractors. It is true that
z, these men have been paid for their work. But the cooperation which
: we have received both from Mr. Klauder’s office and from our
- builders and equipment firms has been so notable, and in so many
ways has it gone beyond that which could be demanded under the
. contracts, that also in this connection we can truly speak of a debt
of gratitude. They, no less than the committee, were aware of the
‘ limitation which Synod had placed upon our expenditures, and they
have been unstinting in their efforts to give us a plant of college
buildings which cannot be duplicated anywhere for practical useful-

- ness, permanence, and low maintenance cost, combined with a design
be.