# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1935_S100
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88 Proceedings of Thirty-Sixth Regular Convention,

Fire Prevention and Fire and Wind-Storm Insurance,
(Unprinted Memorials 40 (Fire Prevention: Mr. Hoeck], 46 and 4
{Fire and Wind-storm Protection: Nazareth Church and Hope Churel
Milwaukee], and 50 [Fire Insurance: Bethlehem Church, Milwaukee].
Report of Committee 1:—

Your Committee recommends that this matter be referred to the
Board of Directors for further study.

Action of Synod.
This report was adopted, :

Zoning of Synod in the Interest of Colleges,

Report of Committee 1:—

The Suggestion to zone Synod for the purpose of soliciting stu-
dents for our educational institutions in order that no unethical com-
petition may arise, prompts your Committee to call attention to the
undesired rivalry that may develop between some schools, which must

not be countenanced,
Action of Synod.

This declaration was adopted,

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II. ELEMENTARY EDUCATION.

Report of the Board of Christian Education,
(Memorial 201.)

The Board of Christian Education, according to the resolution of
Synod at its Milwaukee Convention, has been located at St. Louis dur-
ing the past triennium. With deep gratitude to God we can report
that the new arrangement of having one Board and One office for the
entire work has been distinctly a step in the right direction,

Soon after the close of the last Convention the Rev. Wn. H. Luke,
Sunday-schoo] Editor, fell sick while on a vacation. He returned to
St. Louis in a: serious condition and died in triumphant faith Octo-
ber 11, 1932, at the youthful age of thirty-six, He was an indefat-
igable worker in behalf of Christ’s little ones, an ardent champion of
the cause of Christian ‘education, During five years of zealous work
as Secretary of Sunday-schools he had amply demonstrated how hig
splendid endowments could serve the cause of our children. During
the vacancy created by his untimely death the work in the Sunday-