# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1935_S105
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Ev. Luth. Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States. 1935. 93

meetings or conferences of various kinds. Although limited by reason
of Synod’s financial condition, our Secretary of Schools nevertheless
attended many conferences and meetings in the interest of our schools.
Needless to say, our School Department carried on an extensive cor-
respondence on many phases of the work relating to Christian train-
ing of children and to the work of our schools and our teachers.
Besides, Mr. Stellhorn served on Synod’s Catechism Committee, was
asked to examine numerous text-books, conference papers, and re-
ports, was asked to assist in the establishment of schools, and co-
operated in the matter of our Summer-school for Teachers. Through
our School Department we were thus able to be of service to many
groups and individuals and could assist in furthering the cause of our
Christian schools.

_The committee in charge of curricula for our Lutheran schools is
composed of the following: A.H.C. Both, P.T. Buszin, A. E. Die-
sing, Alfred Schmieding, H.M.Zurstadt. The following curricula
have been published to date: Art, Church History, German, Lan-
guage, Science; others are in preparation.

Sunday-Schools.

The growing needs of our increasing Sunday-school constituency
make ever greater demands upon the Board and upon the Sunday-
school Department. The average increase in Sunday-school enrol-
- ment has been 10,000 a year for the last six years. The figures for
1933 are: 3,240 Sunday-schools, with 24,514 teachers and 244,133
pupils. It may be mentioned that not all the pupils enrolled are of
school age, many thousands being of preschool, other thousands of
postconfirmation age. Two major tasks engaged the time and atten-
tion of our Sunday-school Department: the editing of suitable Sun-
day-school literature and the work of promoting teacher-training.
The sickness and death of our Pastor Wm. Luke seriously affected
the Board’s work in behalf of the Sunday-schools, retarding a number
of progressive steps that had been planned. Our new editor, the Rev.
A. CO. Mueller, is working faithfully. He is ably assisted by Mr. L.
Braeunig. At present, work is being done for the following publica-
tions, edited regularly under the auspices of the Board: Concordia
Primary Leaflets, Junior Lessons, Intermediate Lessons, Senior Les-
sons, Concordia Bible Student (formerly Junior Bible Student), and
the Sunday-school Teachers’ Quarterly. Lesson Helps for the Con-
cordia Bible Student are also supplied for the Workers Quarterly of
the Walther League. Great care is being exercised in the preparation
of our Sunday-school literature. All suggestions that come to the
office are carefully filed and, if they are of value, are acted upon, and
improvements and emendations are being made. Little change has
been made in the lesson schedule during the past three years. Our