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LCMS Convention Proceedings St. Louis, Missouri — 1926, Page 80

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80 Proceedings of Thirty-Third Regular Convention,

Series as revised by our Executive Secretary. A committee is now .
engaged in preparing a list of Supplementary Reading. A series of
practical articles on school-teaching was begun, but could not be con-
tinued owing to other pressing business. In order to be of assistance
to congregations which are contemplating the erection of new schools,
the Board is planning to prepare pictures and plans of school-
buildings.

The Executive Secretary has done diligent and faithful work.
Besides his routine work he has written a number of articles on
Christian education, visited a number of District synods and con-
ferences, conferred with the school superintendents of various Dis-
tricts, and attended the meetings of the Curriculum Committee. The
new Elementary Bible History was prepared by him and Superinten-
dent Kuehnert. He has also revised the Baker and Baker series of
Readers.

At the four joint meetings with the General Sunday-school

Board, essays on the following topics were read and discussed: | °

“Cooperation of Sunday-school and Day-school”; “The Lutheran
Child in the Publie School”; “The Pedagogical Work Done at
St. Louis and Springfield”; “Children of Other Denominations in
Our Schools’ and Sunday-schools”; “The Underlying Reasons for
the Opposition to the Sunday-school”; “Vacation Bible and Summer
Schools”; “Jurisdiction in Regard to the Home Department” ;
“Supervised Home Study of Religion”; “The Import of the Joint

‘Meetings and Their Influence on the Actions of Those Attending

Them”; “The Choosing and Calling of Sunday-school Teachers” ;
“The Summer School.”

The various recommendations of.the School Board were sum-
marized in the following report of Committee 5, which was adopted :—

“Your Committee is pleased to call your attention to the fact
that the General School Board of Synod is able to point out in its
report, on pages 102—108 of the Hingaben, Book of Memorials, that
our Christian day-school system is progressing satisfactorily and that
in all parts of Synod new zeal for the important work is noticeable,
a state of affairs for which we owe to God deep gratitude, which ought
to manifest itself not only in words, but also in deeds.

We should furthermore like to bring to your attention the mani-
fold and important work of the General School Board, carried on by
its faithful Executive Secretary. .

“Note in the report the many meetings held; the work done in

and for the different synodical Districts and with the General Sun- ja

day-school Board; the valuable monthly News Service as published
in the School Journal; the attention given to bills presented in legis-
latures; the preparing and publishing of valuable tracts; the issuing
of a. special Reference Catalog; the revision of a series of Readers