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38 Verhandlungen der dreizehnten Verſammlung

Gerichten, ſei es am Stimmkaſten, aufgenommen und bisher geführt haben,
unſere herzliche Billigung gewähren, wie wir auch entſchloſſen ſind, in an⸗
dern Staaten, wo immer ſolcherlei Geſetzgebung auf die Bahn gebracht
werden mag, derſelben kräftig zu begegnen. Zu dem Ende empfehlen wir
als verſammelte Delegatenſynode folgende Maßnahmen:

1. Den von den einzelnen Diſtrictsſynoden angenommenen Vorſchlägen
beizuſtimmen, „daß eine allgemeine Commiſſion der Miſſouriſynode ernannt
werde, die ſich von den Diſtrictscommiſſionen Bericht erſtatten laſſe, den⸗
ſelben berathend zur Seite ſtehen, von hervorragenden Juriſten Gutachten
einholen und in weitverbreiteten Journalen Artikel veröffentlichen ſoll“.

2. Die folgenden für dieſe Commiſſion in Vorſchlag gebrachten Per⸗
ſonen dazu zu ernennen: Präſes Schwan, Präſes Niemann, Advokat E. C.
Schwan, Lehrer Leutner; als berathende Glieder: Prof. Gräbner, Prof.
Brohm, Dr. Dümling, P. Lindemann, Advokat Tatje und Prof. Crull.

3. Zur Beſchaffung der nöthigen Gelder beſondere Sammlungen zu
veranſtalten und unter anderen ſolche Diſtricte zu unterſtützen, welche zu
ſchwach ſind, die aus der Bekämpfung ſolcher Schulgeſetze erwachſenden
Gerichtskoſten allein zu tragen.

4. Denjenigen Diſtrictsſynoden, welche dieſe Schulfrage noch nicht
behandelt haben, den Rath zu ertheilen, „eine Commiſſion zu erwählen,
deren Aufgabe es ſein ſoll, ſich über alle das Schulweſen betreffenden Maß⸗
regeln und Erklärungen genau zu informiren, über alles Wichtige von Zeit
zu Zeit öffentlich zu berichten, für Veröffentlichung paſſender Artikel zu
ſorgen, die nöthigen Proceſſe vor Gericht zu führen, für Aufbringung der
dazu erforderlichen Gelder Sorge zu tragen, ſich bei Wahlen über die
Stellung der Candidaten in Kenntniß zu ſetzen und gegebenen Falls dahin
zu wirken, daß uns genehme Candidaten aufgeſtellt werden“.

5. Die allgemeine Schulcommiſſion zu beauftragen, mit einer Com⸗
miſſion der Synodalconferenz zuſammenzuwirken.

Die von der Synode ſelbſt gegebene Ueberſetzung der vorſtehenden fünf
Punkte in's Engliſche lautet, wie folgt:

1. Whereas the Word of God, our rule of life, enjoins upon all
Christian parents the duty of bringing up their children in the nurt-
ure and admonition of the Lord: therefore all Christians who edu-
cate their children in schools are in duty bound to entrust their chil-
dren, who are not yet confirmed in Christian truth, to such schools
only as secure the education of children in the nurture and admoni-
tion of the Lord, while at the same time it is with us self-understood
that we are willing to make good citizens of our children, to the
utmost of our ability, and that we also endeavor to give them the
best possible schooling in the use of the English language.

2. Whereas in the non-religious public schools, wherever they
are conducted in the sense of the non-religious state, not only Chris-

38 Proceedings of the thirteenth convention

courts or at the ballot box, our hearty approval, just as we are also resolved to meet such legislation vigorously in other states, wherever it may be brought forward. To that end we, as the assembled delegate synod, recommend the following measures:

1. To concur in the proposals adopted by the individual district synods, "that a general commission of the Missouri Synod be appointed, which shall have the district commissions report to it, stand by them with advice, obtain opinions from eminent jurists, and publish articles in widely circulated journals."

2. To appoint to this commission the following persons proposed for it: President Schwan, President Niemann, Attorney E. C. Schwan, Teacher Leutner; as advisory members: Prof. Gräbner, Prof. Brohm, Dr. Dümling, Pastor Lindemann, Attorney Tatje, and Prof. Crull.

3. To arrange special collections to procure the necessary funds, and, among other things, to assist those districts which are too weak to bear alone the court costs arising from the struggle against such school laws.

4. To give the advice to those district synods that have not yet dealt with this school question, "to elect a commission whose task it shall be to inform itself exactly about all measures and declarations concerning the school system, to report publicly from time to time on everything important, to see to the publication of suitable articles, to conduct the necessary lawsuits in court, to take care of raising the funds required for this, to inform itself at elections about the position of the candidates, and, where the case arises, to work toward the nomination of candidates acceptable to us."

5. To instruct the general school commission to work together with a commission of the Synodical Conference [*Synodalconferenz*].

The translation into English of the foregoing five points, given by the Synod itself, reads as follows:

1. Whereas the Word of God, our rule of life, enjoins upon all
Christian parents the duty of bringing up their children in the nurt-
ure and admonition of the Lord: therefore all Christians who edu-
cate their children in schools are in duty bound to entrust their chil-
dren, who are not yet confirmed in Christian truth, to such schools
only as secure the education of children in the nurture and admoni-
tion of the Lord, while at the same time it is with us self-understood
that we are willing to make good citizens of our children, to the
utmost of our ability, and that we also endeavor to give them the
best possible schooling in the use of the English language.

2. Whereas in the non-religious public schools, wherever they
are conducted in the sense of the non-religious state, not only Chris-