# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1944_S134
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134 Elementary Education

‘Because it ig most unwise for the Church to-accept: such sub-
sidy‘for its teaching program, even though the right: to control has

- been waived by- the State, we as citizens “should ‘not “agitate for _
State support but oppose the grariting of ‘State. funds for sec-

Miscellaneous
A separate subcommittee was appointed by your Board to.
study the question of religious education in state-supported schools.
This committee has not completed its findings and is not ready to
report at this time. ;
Synod in 1941 authorized and instructed your Board to compose
a comprehensive treatise of the Lutheran point of view in educa-
tion to be presented by competent authorities in this field and to
be published by your Board. While the study of this subject has
been begun by a committee and by members. of the office, no report
can be made at this time. The very nature of the topic will require
continued and extensive study before a treatise can be published.
We respectfully call attention to the fact that the resolution
of 1938 and 1941 to appropriate $1,000 per annum for research in
-the field of elementary Christian education was not carried out
because the money was not made available.
F. E. Mayer, Chairman
H.A.Drrrmar, Secretary

ACTION
On the subject of State support of church schools, Committee 4
recommended that the report of the special committee which was
appointed by the Board for Parish Education to study this program
‘(see pp. 75—77) ‘be adopted as operative for the next three years.
Synod so resolved. \ ‘
Miscellaneous
As to items in the report of the Board under “Miscellaneous,”
Committee 4 submitted the following resolutions:
1. Wuereas, Synod has adopted the resolutions concerning the
establishment: and maintenance ‘of Lutheran . high: schools; and
Wuereas, The Board for Parish Education has been in-
structed to give active support to a program of general education

on the high school level; and :
Wuereas, The sphere of (adult. education/has also been as-
signed to the Board for Parish Education; be it

Resolved, That the Board for Parish Education be authorized
‘to appoint special committees to take care of these _assi ents
and that the Board of Directors of Synod be instructed. to provide

the necessary funds to carry out these projects.