# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1944_S51
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

2 “was to” educate’ ministers
a y concurs with’ our Saylog

also ridiculous for praying - Christians to speak the ‘Second Petition :
of the Lord's’ Prayer,. if at. the same. time ‘a church organization
would, sponsor * principles whereby such a prayer may ‘be seriously -
hampered or éven nullified. -

- 4:°To close. an institution of. this kind 6 on the pretext of Chris-.. we

tian stewardship, when moneys. are. available. ‘onan: unprecedented:
scale would, in our. estimation, bespeak a false economy.

5. In view of the marvelous blessings’ which have ‘come: to our
' Synod. through the medium of. Springfield Concordia,. despite’ the.
fact’ that the. Seminary ‘has: always’ ‘been. treated in the. spirit of:.an ° =
_orphan, we contend that. the time has. Sally. come: when it should _ .
be fostered properly. rather than closed.”

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