# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1941_S137
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

Elementary Education 185
Resolved:

1. That we, the Texas Triennial Conference, petition Synod
_ to establish a fund to support needy students of Mexican birth and
‘citizenship who are to be prepared for the work in Mexico;
2. That only such students be accepted and supported as are
recommended by the Texas District Mission Board. ‘
Respectfully submitted,
ArtuHurR Repp, Chairman
FRANK HEINTZEN, Secretary

Report of Committee 1

; Your Committee recommends that the establishment of such
“a fund be declined.

Action of Synod: This recommendation was adopted.

Suggestion to Refer Closing of Colleges to Board of Directors
(Unprinted Memorial 53)
This memorial requests Synod to empower the Board of
Directors to decide which college (colleges) or seminary (sem-
inaries) shall be discontinued.

Recommendation of Committee 1
We recommend that this request be rejected.
Action of Synod: This recommendation was adopted.

Il. ELEMENTARY EDUCATION

Report of the Board of Christian Education
(Memorial 201)

The Lutheran philosophy of education is predicated on the
Scriptural principle that there can be no true education unless
it is based upon, and permeated by, the Word of- God, centered
solely in. Christ, and focused upon heaven’s glory. Our Synod
has always recognized the correctness of this principle in deed
as well as in word. The members of our Synod have provided
such educational facilities and agencies as would assure our
children a training in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
It is true, our Synod’s educational standard for the religious
training of our youth is high. But we cannot lower the standard,
which is based on Scriptural principles. We cannot circumvent
the Lord’s injunction concerning the training of our children, nor
do we as Christians want to do this. Our Christians desire to
bring our educational practice into conformity with sound theory.
and the Christian philosophy of education. Our policies in Chris-
tian education dare never be dictated by local sentiment, personal

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