Synodical Conference Convention Proceedings St. Louis, Missouri — 1950, Page 123

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Ev, Luth. Synodical Conference of North America. 1950 128

children, This is not enough for the many Negro children of high
school age in the city. Because of this unfortunate condition some
of our Lutheran children attend Catholic high schools and a high
school of another church body. — At present two additional very
large Catholic high schools for Negro children are being built in
the city. It is feared that our own Lutheran children will attend
these Catholic high schools if no Lutheran High School is provided
for them. It is also feared that such attendance of Catholic high
schools will lead to some loss.

Whereas we have in the past made the happy experience that
most of our Lutheran boys and girls who have attended Catholic
high schools have stood up for Jesus and for their Lutheran
Church in their classrooms, in their religious compositions, and
otherwise, even in the face of persecution by Catholic teachers
and pupils; yet we have also made the sad experience of having
lost children because they have attended heterodox high schools.
Others, we have found, had absorbed the false teachings so much
that it required much time and patience to undo the harm that
had been done to their religious well-being.

Reason 3. A Lutheran High School in New Orleans is of great
necessity, so that we may gain boys and girls for workers in our
churches and schools.

If ever, we must today see to it that gifted boys and girls will
be prepared at Selma, Ala., and at Greensboro, N.C., for the
teaching profession, and that gifted boys will be prepared at
Greensboro, N.C., for the holy ministry. If we do not see to this
today, the day will soon be upon us when we will have no workers
for our expanding work. .

But if we are to get boys and girls to attend our institutions
at Selma, Ala., and at Greensboro, N.C., it is of paramount im-
portance that a steppingstone to these institutions be provided here
in New Orleans. Parents often refuse to let their boys and girls
attend our schools in Alabama and in North Carolina because of
their tender age when they finish our day schools. “They are
too young to be so far away from home,” we hear very frequently.
The result is that many a gifted boy and girl is lost for our work
in the Church and school. ;

In order that a Lutheran High School may be founded in the
city of New Orleans, the workers and delegates from our New
Orleans congregations of the Synodical Conference, assembled at
St. Paul’s Church, have resolved the following:

1, To sound out the congregations during the coming months,
to determine te what extent they are able and willing to support
such a project;

2. To petition the honorable Synodical Conference, assembled
this year at Fort Wayne, Ind., to express its willingness to assist
our congregations in making plans for founding an accredited and
up-to-date Lutheran High School in the city of New Orleans, La.;

3. To bring the above petition before the congregations, so that
they may affix their names to it, if this petition expresses also their

desire. Respectfully submitted,
Tae ComMITrEE

‘ E. H. Witpcrusg G. M. Kramer
D. Rosrnson