# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1938_S104
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

104 Elementary Education

and laxity in educational work will have for individual congrega-
tions and the Synod as a whole, your Board of Christian Education
believes it has every reason to take a confident view of the edu-
cational situation in Synod. “Through God we shall do valiantly,”
Ps, 60:12.
The Board

The Board of Christian Education has held monthly meetings,
including two plenary meetings a year with representatives of the
seminaries and normal schools. Particular attention, during the
past triennium, was given to home rehabilitation; to a more effec-
tive and systematic promotion of Christian education, through the
circuit Visitor in conjunction with the District Board of Education;
to the coming centennial and centennial publications; to a training
program for Sunday-school teachers, through a special committee
appointed by the President of Synod; to special Sunday-school
problems, by means of an advisory Sunday-school Conference; to
the creation of a special school extension fund and a number of
other subjects of varying importance. Some of these subjects were
committed to the Board for study by the last synodical convention,
and they will be taken up under separate headings.

Home Rehabilitation. __'The Cleveland Convention in 1935 re-
solved:

“That the Board of Christian Education be, and hereby is, instructed
to make the rehabilitation of the home, as the most important agency for
the Christian education and training of our children, one of its major
objectives for the next triennium and that the President of Synod, the
District Presidents, the Visitors, the Board of Christian Education, and
the pastors be directed to lend their full cooperation in this undertaking.”
(Proceedings, D- 99.)

Our Board immediately took up this matter in its meetings,
evolved quite an elaborate and ambitious program, repeatedly
brought the subject to the attention of the cooperating boards and
officials, and stressed the matter in the seminars of the Visitors’
Conference in 1936 and of the Centennial Conference in 1937. The
Board issued monthly articles for District papers under the title
of a “Series on the Christian Home” (both German and English).
Through the courtesy of Concordia Publishing House 200,000 copies
of Build the Family Altar (a radio sermon of Dr. Walter A. Maier)
were printed for general distribution.

Our program called for more systematic and intensive work,
but owing to lack of facilities only the very beginnings of the pro-
gram could be attempted. The matter, in our opinion, is so im-
portant that Synod should provide both money and help to carry
on an adequate and permanent home department, to issue a parents’
magazine, and in general to safeguard and strengthen what Synod