# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1941_S144
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

142 Elementary Education

gations report weekly or biweekly teachers’ meetings, 552 report
monthly meetings, 145 report meetings every two or three months,
1,245 report no teachers’ meetings; 1,542 report teacher-training,
2,057 report no teacher-training. In the interest of better teaching
and higher educational standards Synod should encourage’ all
pastors to hold regular and frequent teachers’ meetings. Synod
should likewise encourage all pastors to introduce teacher-training
and to give our synodical training program the preference. We dare
not temporize or neglect the training of our teachers, for the
spiritual and eternal welfare of our children is involved. The
quality of our teaching in Sunday-school will be in the ratio in
which our teachers are prepared for this important work.

Literature

The Concordia Series of Sunday-school lessons is enjoying
the widest circulation in its history. In order to meet the request
for more stories and the demand for correlation, our series has
been made uniform. Pastors and teachers have heartily approved
this change as a step in the right direction. The Teachers’ Quarterly
has been enlarged so as to allow more space for lesson helps and
editorials. The Quarterly is being used by a growing number of
teachers and is considered indispensable. Our Sunday-schools are
characterized by conservatism and progress, two factors which
are due in no small measure to our adherence to the Scriptures.
The Sunday-school materials have been praised because they are
soundly Scriptural, and as far as can be determined, the teachers
experience success in using them. Special studies are being made
with a view to improving the series and bringing out other materials
that are needed. The nursery age and summer-school and week-
day religious instruction are being studied with this in mind.
During these years the editorial work has been done by the editor,
Rev. A. C. Mueller, assisted by Mr. L. Braeunig. In June of 1938
Dr. J. M. Weidenschilling entered the employment of Concordia
Publishing House and was assigned to the junior Bible class de-
partment. An increasing number of laymen is now teaching in
Bible classes, and special helps were deemed necessary. Antici-
pating the need, Concordia Publishing House added the Concordia
Bible Teacher to its long list of publications. The Bible Student
and Bible Teacher are prepared by Dr. Weidenschilling. Though
there has been a revival of interest in Bible-study and new classes
have been organized, the relatively small number in Bible classes
is entirely out of proportion to the number of young people in
our Church. We believe the spiritual care and nurture of our
adolescents should be a special concern of Synod. In an age in
which false'and dangerous philosophies have found their way into