# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1941_S97
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

Seminaries and Colleges. — Individual Institutions 95

Brazil, including Argentinians, there being no sign at all that this
policy will be changed in the future; and

Wuereas, Altogether apart from this, instruction of our students
in Brazil has gone over almost entirely into Portuguese, while the
work in Argentina is going over into Spanish almost as rapidly, so
that Argentinian students in Porto Alegre no longer get what they
need but instead get something that in most cases ruins their
Spanish; and

Wuereas, It is becoming even more expensive to send students
to a foreign country, tending to make it impossible for some of our
. best present and prospective students to get any theological edu-
cation, thus diminishing our hopes of getting sufficient native pastors
in a reasonable time; and

Wuereas, It is, after all, a detriment to our work to have the
future Argentinians spend three of their most important years in
a country with conditions radically different from those under which
we expect them later to work; therefore

We respectfully ask Synod:

1. To add a theological department to the preparatory and peda-
gogical department at Crespo, Argentina;

2. To establish two theological professorships for this course of
instruction, one of these professors to be called for the school-year
beginning February, 1942, the second for the school-year beginning
March, 1944;

3. To provide for the housing of these additional students.

Tue Boarp oF CONTROL OF COLEGIO ConcorDIA,
Crespo, ARGENTINA
Rev. Geruarp Hursner, President of the Argentina District
Pror. Fr. LANGE, Secretary of the Argentina District

Report of Committee 1

In this connection the Committee also considered a letter from
President Heine of the Brazilian District (Unprinted Memorial 125),
addressed to Dr. Behnken, concerning the establishment of a theo~-
logical department at Crespo, Argentina.

Concerning the above-mentioned requests, Committee 1, after
careful consideration, recommended:

1.:That the requested theological department be established;

2. That it be kept separate from the institution at Crespo;

3. That provisions be made to establish it in the outlying dis-
trict of a larger city; ;

4. That a dwelling be rented sufficiently large to house one pro-
fessor and his family and the four students now to be enrolled;

5. That one professor be called to teach the theological branches;

6. That necessary changes be made as conditions develop.

Action of Synod: These recommendations were adopted.