# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1944_S41
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ited bp Synod. One home off the campus, at. 15 Atierdéen Pla
. Louis, Mo,, was purchased by. Synod in 1943 at a. cost: ‘of $12, 000:
In -accord - with’ the resolution: of | Synod. (Proceedings, 19!
45); the. Graduate School. ‘was: te-organized in 1938. "Co
have been offered both for full-time and part-time graduate 4
ents. ‘The Graduate School’ Committee has. also: carried out
‘mandate of Synod . (Proceedings, 1935, p. 44) to institute summ
ools and pastors’ institutes... Extension. work is: offered at
Forest: under the. direction, of Concordia Seminary.
“Concordia Seminary: ‘should : become. the center ‘of Luther
‘graduate students. Its ‘aim’ is to, train. scholarly theologians. who
later life become the ‘theological. leaders, in’ their. conferences,
‘Districts, and Synod; to prepare future professors. at our. synddical
: institutions; to equip the missionaries. who are to be the theological -
leaders in foreign fields; and to develop men for specific tasks: as.
* the occasion may arise. ~~
-In conjunction: with the Board for Foteign Missions the. faculty:
has taken - ‘the initial. steps in establishing ‘a ‘Mission. ‘Department.
- according to a synodical resolution of 1938. (Proceedings, p 150). fi
~ In the fall of 1941 the following courses were added in the Graduate’ .
School: History of Missions, Missionary Methods, Comparative | Re-..
ligion, Oriental History; Chinese, and Malayalam. ‘In addition. to.
members of the faculty, Dr. F. Brand, Rev. O. H. Schmidt, and Mis="
' sionaries (on furlough).-A. .T. Koehler, E. C. Zimmermann, and
-A. R. Raasch have taught classes during the past triennium... ‘The .
. .Emergency Planning Council: is financing the teaching of Russian |
.. and Spanish introduced in the ‘current year, with twelve.and forty~ <!
two students in the respective classes. Four candidates attended ,
in "19411942; five in 1942—1948; seven in 1943-—1944° (two: m
- isterial candidates, three normal school candidates, and two mis
’ sionaries on:furlough from the ‘American Lutheran Church). The

students organized a voluntary. Foreign Missionary Society under. ‘|

the sponsorship of. the: faculty: during the current year to stimulate : ‘
interest in Foreign ‘Missions -arid ‘to study the lands, peoples; ‘cuss
toms, and languages of China, India, Africa, South: ‘America, Russia,
and Japan. -

The project ‘has now ‘passed the experimental, stage, and the.
Faculty and the Board. are prepared. to- make the following recom-:.:
“mendations for, placing’ the ‘Mission Department : ona permanent +
- basis and for expanding. the: work: as ain 4

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‘ ‘1. ‘That: Synod erect: a: mission - -house on- the campus: of Con- oy
cordia Seminary ‘as soon as feasible: ‘This. mission house‘is:to in-
mission. library, ,conference rooms, «furnished - apartments
for: qissionaries on furlough and for. candidates. ‘The: cost of: the
Iding.should not. exceed: $75,000.00 00. . ‘Furnishing, equipment, and. ;