# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1938_S102
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

102 Elementary Education

9. That Synod consider the desirability of

a. A more intensive study of the problems of the preschool age;

b. Encourage the work of adult education.

3. That in the new election an effort be made to elect or ap-
point to each one of the boards at least one member who has made
a special study of the work of that respective area.

4, That each Board be empowered to select representation from
its midst to serve for a period of three years on the proposed
Council of Christian Education.

5. That the committees and the Council of Christian Education
propose to Synod for ratification further regulations governing their
organization and activities.

This overture of the Northern Illinois District Board of Educa-
tion was, on recommendation of Committee 1, referred to the Board
for Higher Education, the Board of Christian Education, and the
Young People’s Board for further study.

This action also disposes of Memorial No. 147, an overture of
the Northern Illinois District requesting Synod “to appoint a com-
mittee to study the problem of the integration of the educational
work throughout Synod.”

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Il. ELEMENT ARY EDUCATION

(Memorial 201)
Report of the Board of Christian Education

The centennial of the Saxon immigration is also the centennial
of Christian education in our Church. It was the concern for the
future of their children with respect to church and school that
constituted the strongest motive for the emigration of the Saxon
Lutherans to America. A few days after their arrival in St. Louis
a school was opened. The log seminary which was erected shortly
after their removal from St. Louis to Perry County, Mo., might well
be taken as a symbol of the educational ideal of the Church which,
under God, owes its existence to the stalwart confessionalism and
indomitable courage of the founding fathers. According to the
Constitution of the Synod, which was organized in 1847, two of the
purposes of Synod are “the training of ministers and teachers” and
“the furtherance of parochial schools and thorough instruction for
confirmation.” Convinced that the welfare of their Church would
be dependent upon Christian instruction and training, they were
determined to provide for elementary and higher education.
A school as well as a church was established in every parish in