# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1935_S74
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

74 Proceedings of Thirty-Sixth Regular Convention,

tion to settlers, Humanly speaking, the outlook for the Pacific North-
west is an era of Prosperity and a great influx of people. Many
families have already arrived, and among them are some whose sons
are now continuing their studies at our college, studies begun at one
or. the other of our Eastern institutions, to which the parents did
not feel able to continue sending them from this distant region. We
expect the number of such to increase.

These things mean large missionary opportunities for our Church,
and these, in turn, mean the need of candidates, candidates born and
raised in these parts, familiar with, and used to, prevailing condi-
tions — small flocks, widely scattered, and primitive living conditions.

Also, our people in this large, far-flung District should have the
opportunity to let their boys study for the ministry and teaching
profession, and the nearest college, aside from Portland, is too far
away to attract boys of the tender age of thirteen or fourteen years.
Besides, the parents are loath to send them such a distance (Oakland
is 750 miles from Portland, over 1,000 miles from Bellingham and
Spokane).

Synod did not close its existing colleges in former periods of
depression; it founded new ones — Seward, St. Paul! And God
blessed these undertakings marvelously. Let us not make radical
changes in abnormal times.

In the name of the Board of Control,

J.A.Rrtpacu, Chairman.

Committee 1 reported: —

Your Committee recommends that the recommendation of the
Committee on Higher Education be declined. and the college at Port-
land be continued,

; Action of Synod.

This recommendation was adopted.

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