# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1941_S90
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

88 Seminaries and Colleges. — Individual Institutions

Report of Committee 1
Concerning the request for a new professor, Committee 1
brought in the following recommendation:
Committee 1 recommends the granting of one professor as
" requested,
Action of Synod: This recommendation was adopted,

Request for Instruction in Spanish at Austin
(Memorial 122)

Wuerras, The Church’s future mission expansion will of neces-
sity be conditioned by the said trend; and

Wuergas, Upon the basis of presently available information we
can draw only this conclusion: many fields of European and Asiatic
mission endeavor may be closed to us, but there will be, in the
immediate future, an opportunity in the other Americas which
staggers the imagination of those who realize its enormity; and

leges and seminaries an facilities to prepare a single worker for
work in a field which now appears to be the sreatest of our future
fields of foreign-mission endeavor; and

Wuereas, It would be at least eight years before the Church
could get benefits from a Spanish Program if we were to begin the
teaching of this language, history, and culture in one or some of
our schools now; and

WueEREAS, We do have in the State of Texas 1) the greatest