# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1929_S68
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

& synodical, a group interest in them.

3. There seems to be a growing laxity, when congregations are
received into Synod, in the matter of insisting on a so-called school
paragraph; likewise, when missionaries or pastors are called, with

4. While it must be gratefully acknowledged that our mission
boards in general insist on schools, we still have comparatively small
appropriations for Christian schools issi
mission activity too often leaves out

D. Growth of the School System Too Slow.

1. Every year over half of the children confirmed and receiy
into membership of our congregations and Synod have not had th
advantages of a Lutheran school and, notable exceptions cheerfy]]

as they should be,

2. The growth of our school system has been steady since 1920,
but it has not made up for the great losses which it sustained during :
a number of decades of the past, and it is therefore -far behind the *
status which could have been recorded had it kept pace with the
growth of Synod during the last thirty years,

Prof. em. J. Herzer also submitted an overture urging greater
zeal for parochial schools. He based hig argumentation on the
clear command of the Scriptures, on the admonitions of Luther, and
on the position of Walther, of the Missouri Synod, and of the
Synodical Conference. The overture urged Synod to order the 4
publication of more articles in Der Lutheraner and the Lutheran ©
Witness, warning parents, pastors, and congregations to send their

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