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LCMS Convention Proceedings St. Louis, Missouri — 1935, Page 96

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96 Proceedings of Thirty-Sixth Regular Convention,

children.’ With at least 115,000 of our own children in the public
schools, we should have five times the enrolment that is reported for
either Saturday--or summer-school. 7
Christian education is almost unthinkable without some kind of
cooperation on the part of the home. It is true that the Church must
often proceed on the assumption that it will have to counteract and
overcome the negative influences of the home. But this gives us all
the more reason to bend every effort to right the home, to win the
parents, or at least to enlist their support and cooperation. Educators
in Protestant denominations of our country have deplored the fact
that the Church has gone out after the children, but to a large extent
has ignored the parents. We of the Missouri Synod have also failed
in our duty towards the parents. More attention should be paid to
the homes and greater efforts expended in winning the unchurched
parents. Experience has shown that the school which has the child
every day has a much greater hold upon the home than any other
institution. By all means let us in our mission-work seek to win the
home over at the earliest possible moment and make it a power for
good, a backer for the work we are doing for the children, lest our
miissionary endeavors for the children be of doubtful value.

The Board of Christian Education respectfully submits the fol-
lowing recommendations: —

1. That we acknowledge, with gratitude to God, the faithful, self-
sacrificing work of pastors, teachers, and lay members of our congre-
gations in behalf of the Christian education of our children espe-
cially in schools and Sunday-schools.

2. That Synod approve the action of the Board in deferring the
calling of an executive secretary.

3. That the parochial school be stressed in the mission program
of the Church as a vital factor for the upbuilding of Christ’s kingdom
and that this apply to self-supporting congregations as well as to
mission-congregations and new fields.

4. That Synod urge upon Districts to continue not to receive con-
gregations into Synod without advising such congregations to include
in their constitution or by-laws a provision which calls for the opening
and maintaining of a Christian school at the earliest possible moment.

_ -Nore.— While this resolution does not have in mind legalistic mea-
sures, it does; intend to place the responsibility for not having a school
squarely upon the individual congregation.

5. That the services of. available ministerial candidates or stu-
‘dents be used’ to: open: and conduct schools.

6. That pastors*bé encouraged to open and teach school, since ‘the