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LCMS Convention Proceedings St. Louis, Missouri — 1935, Page 94

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94 ' Proceedings of Thirty-Sixth Regular Convention,

Bible-stories, all of which are found in the Comprehensive Bible His-
tory, are arranged according to the church-year, and the chronology
of the Bible is observed. The primary consideration in the prepara-
tion of the schedule is that the plan of salvation is clearly taught,
so that the teachers may be led to emphasize the vicarious atonement
whether teaching lessons from the Old Testament or from the New.
Many of the lessons are either introduced or concluded with a ref-
erence to the Catechism, and where this is not the case, the teacher
may still find in the Lesson Helps references and hints for the employ-
ment of the Catechism in the teaching of the Bible-story. The total
circulation of our literature has increased from 242,246 in 1932 to
255,867 in 1934, an encouraging sign of loyalty on the part of our
pastors and Sunday-schools; but it is also an indication to the Board
of the great. responsibility resting upon the editorial office. In 1934
the new Graded Memory Course for Lutheran Sunday-schools and
Other Institutions was published. This was.one of the projects be-
gun by Pastor Luke. It was completed by Mr. A.C. Stellhorn, our
Secretary of Schools. During the vacancy in the editorial depart-
ment the chairman of the Board assumed the active direction of the
office. During this time also.Pastors A.C. Mueller, Richard Caem-
merer, A. P. Marutz, and O. H. Schmidt prepared individual numbers
of the Concordia Bible Student. Since .October, 1933, the present
editor has furnished the -manuscript. also for the. Concordia Bible
Student. Lo :
Teacher-training is an important part of Sunday-school work.
No teacher should instruct little ones in our Sunday-schools who has
not had at least some previous training for his work. This presents
one of the most serious problems resting.on the individual congre-
gation. Next to the local teachers’ meeting the most important train-
ing has been carried on in institutes conducted by circuit and District
ussociations of Sunday-schools. -.No exact: data:on the number and
frequency of such institutes are available. Their number has been in-
creasing, however, and the Board has been active in giving directions
for organizing associations and in suggesting programs. The direct
supervision of associations and institutes has definitely come to be
a function of the District Visitors and the District boards of edu-
cation. For years a correspondence school for Sunday-school teachers
has been conducted under the auspices of the Board. Many indi-
viduals and groups have been served. by means of this correspondence
school, the acting director of which is the editor of the Sunday-school
literature. The total number of. active students in March, 1935, was
200. Of this number only 26 students are: working individually, the
rest in groups, under the leadership of the local pastor. —A new
impetus was given the work of Sunday-school'teachér training by the
Sunday-school Teachers’ Institute at River Forest; July 16—21, 1934.