# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1941_S162
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160 Elementary Education

school lessons should be made available in cloth-bound books,
paper-bound books, and in quarterly or monthly issues.

c) The mechanical make-up of our literature should be im-
proved (good paper, large, clear type, better pictures, etc.).

d) The lesson for any given Sunday should contain all the
material required for that particular day: hymns, prayers, re-
sponsive readings, the lesson proper, memory work, and provision
for written answers.

e) Lessons should run parallel for any given Sunday for all
departments from Primary to Senior Department.

f) In those departments in which children are required to
remain for two years two sets of lessons should be provided.

g) The placing of a child into its appropriate department should
be determined by its grade in day~school and not by its age.

h) The revised literature should furnish lessons for the fol-
lowing departments: Home, Nursery, Beginners’, Primary, Junior,
Intermediate, Senior and several Bible classes, making it unneces-
sary for local groups to produce their own material without
synodical censorship.

i) Suitable periodicals for distribution among Sunday-school
pupils and members of junior Bible classes should be provided.

j) A complete Sunday-school teachers’ manual should be
published.

k) Materials for vacation Bible-schools and week-day religious
education should be provided.

1) A manual for adult-membership classes should be supplied.

m) Prices to be charged for the various items of new literature
are to be such that the cost of production will be fully covered and
that a reasonable profit will be realized by Concordia Publishing
House. The new literature is not to receive a subsidy, nor is it to
subsidize other publications which are being produced at a loss.

Respectfully submitted,
Harry E, OLSEN A. H. A. LoeBer E. T. BernTHaL

Detroit, Mich., April 9, 1941

Report of Committee 4

We recognize that the Board of Christian Education has done
commendable work in publishing and improving our Sunday-school
literature. We recommend that they continue this revision, which
shall include a long-term and a stop-gap program. In regard to
Point 3 of the memorial we recommend that action be deferred in
view of the proposal to establish the office of the Secretary of Chris-
tian Education and to refer the details under Point 4 ta the Board
of Christian Education for possible incorporation into their program.

Action of Synod: This report was adopted.

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