# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1926_S97
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Ev. Luth. Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States. 1926. 83

a) It is manifestly impossible to have Sunday-school teaching on
the basis of prepared material alone.

b) We should like to ask Synod to urge all pastors and congre-
gations having Sunday-schools to have regular meetings for the
Sunday-school teachers, preferably weekly, and that more attention
be given to these meetings. Their object is to prepare for the coming
lessons in order that no kind of false doctrine or error be promulgated
by any teacher. In addition to such preparatory lessons we recom-
mend ‘the establishment of evening classes in larger centers of our
Church, on the order of the present institutes now being successfully
operated in a number of large cities. We recommend that these in-
stitutes be placed under some sort of supervision, preferably that of
the conference or of the District in which they are situated.

¢) For the sake of such teachers as have no opportunity to receive
special training we have instituted a Correspondence Course, which
has from the beginning been self-sustaining. It is our conviction that
this course may be of great value in giving such fundamental train-
ing as will enable the Sunday-school teachers of our Synod to do their
work with a greater degree of efficiency.

6. Finally, we desire to call Synod’s attention to the great amount
of work handled by the General Sunday-school Board, as may be seen
from the following : —

a) The present editor of the material from the Primary to the
Senior leaflets can devote only a small part of his time to this editorial
work since he is employed by Concordia Publishing House. The
editor of the Junior Bible Student and the Sunday-school Teachers’
Quarterly performs this duty in addition to his work as teacher at the
Seminary, an arrangement which in no sense of the word is satis-
factory.

b) The correspondence of the Board is becoming more voluminous
and should, as a matter of fact, grow still more in order to control
the character of our Sunday-schools.

ec) If the extension work established by the General Sunday-
school Board is to serve the best interests of the kingdom of God,
it requires much more attention on the part of some person fitted for
the task.

In this connection we recommend that the General Sunday-school
Board, outside of the secretary, be increased by one more, the entire
number thereby becoming five members,

We should like to ask Synod to have the new members of the
General Sunday-school Board begin their work on J anuary 1, 1927.

Respectfully submitted,
THe GeneraL Sunpay-Scuoon Boarp,

by P. E. Krerzmann, Secretary.