# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1935_S109
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Ev. Luth. Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States. 1935. 97

majority of schools cannot be opened: without such aggressive and
willing work on the part of pastors and since many pastors in smaller
charges have the necessary tinie to teach.

7%, That congregations be asked to revert to the policy of calling
teacher-candidates permanently, since temporary calling is: not only
an irregularity among us, but keeps the school cause as well as the
schools and teachers in an undesirable suspense. (There are at present
173 candidates temporarily called.)

8. That the visiting circuit be asked to take a more active part in
the furtherance of educational matters than now is commonly the
case and that this be done according to a system or method devised
and adopted by the Visitors themselves in conjunction with the Dis-
trict President and the District Board of Education. ;

9. That: congregations be advised to supplement Sunday-school
instruction with Saturday-schools, summer-schools, week-day religious
instruction, and a two-year course preparatory to confirmation.

10. That pastors be held to prepare their lay members for work in
the Sunday-school and that pastors and congregations make such pro-
visions for the training of Sunday-school teachers, so that the time
may soon come when no teacher will teach in a Missouri Synod Sun-
day-school who has not received at least some training.

11. That more Districts call superintendents to supervise the work
in schools, Sunday-schools,.and other agencies of child-training or in
some other manner to provide for systematic supervision by present
officers.

12. That, since the home is the bulwark not only of the nation,
but also of the Church, we aim to maintain or secure the moral back-
ing and sympathetic support of every home for the work in schools,
Sunday-schools, confirmation instruction, and church services and
that the winning of the unchurched parents of children in our schools
and Sunday-schools be made a major aim in the missionary program
of every local congregation.

13. That congregations be encouraged to place upon the regular
order of business for their voters’ meetings a report on the educational
institutions of the congregation.

14, Since our schools will suffer if teachers are not available for
them, and since a drop in the enrolment of our teachers’ colleges may
cause a repetition of past experiences, when there was a serious short-
age of teachers, that Synod continue to urge pastors, teachers, and
parents to send an adequate number of boys to our teachers’ colleges.

Tue Boarp or CuHristiaN Epucation.
St. Louis, April 9, 1938. Paut Kognie, Chairman.
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