# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1941_S435
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

Two Radio Addresses 435

The. Missouri Synod is dead set against the tendency to
arize education. I think it is worth noting that this emphasis
been prevalent in all of the great denominational assemblies
e I have been broadcasting during the past several weeks.
ag may surprise you to learn that these Lutherans, at great personal
nd financial sacrifice, have maintained, and still maintain, a
mber of parochial schools for the religious education of their
th. Twenty-seven per cent. of Lutheran youth is trained in
@ religious schools. But from this 27 per cent. the pre-
heological colleges of this denomination enroll 62 per cent. of
ir students.
These Lutherans have also been quick to avail themselves of
e opportunities for spiritual training of the so-called released
time for religious instruction of children attending public schools.
The opinon is held by some that the use of released time by
Lutherans constituted an unwarranted joining of Church and
te. It was pointed out, however, that the authority for released-
time instruction was derived from the same Supreme Court de-
ion from which the authorization of Lutheran parochial schools
has been derived. It is insisted, however, that released time for
eligious instruction be utilized only in accordance with Lutheran
principles and practice. ,
Here is a platform upon which all good citizens can stand
‘together regardless of differences about doctrine and faith. The
world has come to grief because peoples and nations everywhere
“have to a greater or lesser degree divorced God and the funda-
mental truths of religion from the formal instruction in which the
young people of today have been reared. Not until we get down
to the solemn business of putting religion into science and philos-
ophy and chemistry and engineering, will the world be delivered
from the madness in which it is now enmeshed.

I spoke of the flags adorning the Convention Hall where the
Missouri Synod is meeting. These flags are not mere decorations.
They symbolize the world mission of this denomination. Into
many of the countries represented by these national emblems
these Lutherans have gone. They have gone with the same zeal
and heroism with which the Apostle Paul traveled over the
Mediterranean world. Large sums of money have been laid upon
Lutheran altars, and during the hundred years since Pastor Wyne-
ken opened up this missionary trail in the wilderness, many hun-
dreds of missionaries of the Missouri Synod have crossed seas and
continents to implant upon the hillsides of a secular and wayward
_ world the Cross of Christ. One of the high-lights of the Conven-
tion came when two thousand people jammed their way into the
Concordia College Gymnasium to pay tribute to these Lutheran