# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1926_S134
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120 Proceedings of Thirty-Third Regular Convention,

League and the Walther League, at the solicitation of the Committee,
generously agreed to contribute a maximum of $500 each for two
years. The full amount was required the first year; about half will
be sufficient for this year. Two thousand students are now on the
mailing-list. .
The publication of the Lutheran Student led to a movement to
unite all our students and alumni more closely through the formation
of a league. In August, 1925, representatives from ten universities
met under the hospitable roof of the River Forest Seminary; but the
available time proved too brief for the solution of all the problems
involved. The Lutheran Student League’ will probably become a
reality this summer. A University Pastors’ Conference has been
formed to meet annually for the discussion of matters of common
interest. There are, at the present time, five pastors who are wholly
or primarily student pastors, and a considerable number of others
carry on systematic student work. ;
The results of the efforts made so far are more than encouraging. ©
Most of our students are sincerely desirous to remain faithful to
their confirmation vows. It would, of course, be unreasonable to -
expect that all will be kept with the Church ; but there is good ground -
to believe that with systematic student work fully as large a propor-
tion of our student youth will remain faithful as of the youth in the.
average city congregation. .
If our student work, however, is to improve its opportunities
and to confer on the Church the blessings of which it is capable, it :
seems imperative that Synod now adopt a more far-reaching policy.
The work has long since grown over the heads of the Committee,
and they have found themselves unable to do it justice in addition

to their other duties.

Action.

On recommendation of Committee 22, Synod passed the following
resolutions : — '

1. That Synod definitely and unreservedly acknowledge the spir
jtual care of our students at non-synodical institutions of learning
as a duty of the Church. .

2, That Synod call on its Districts to make provision for the
students at institutions within the territory of each through the Inner
Mission boards or otherwise. ,

3. That correlation of effort be secured through the Student We
fare Committee acting in an advisory capacity to the District boards “4
or through other boards elected for this purpose.

4. a) That Synod approve the calling of a General Student 4
Pastor, who shall devote his full time.to general student work under %
the direction of the Student Welfare Committee;