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LCMS Convention Proceedings St. Louis, Missouri — 1935, Sheet 106

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Ev. Luth. Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States. 1935. 99°

Wuereas, The educational program of a Church without a Chris-
tian day-school, to meet the demands of the times, requires the full
time of a trained educator; therefore be it

Resalved, That the Atlantic District petition Synod at its con-
vention in June, 1935, to make provision at one or both of its teachers’
seminaries for the training of “directors of Christian education,” who
will be equipped to serve congregations that have no Christian day-
school as instructors in week-day religious schools, as superintendents
of Sunday- and Bible-schools,.as church. organists and choir directors,
and as missionaries particularly. to the children.

Report of Committee 6: —

The report of your Committee is based upon the following reports
and memorials: the report of the Board of Christian Education (201) ;
printed Memorials 203 and 204, unprinted Memorials 16 and 32, and
the recommendations of the Educational Conference.

Your Committee begs leave to submit the following resolution : —

That Synod acknowledge with gratitude to God the faithful, self-
sacrificing work of the Board of Christian Education and its exec-
utives.

Your Committee wishes to call your attention especially to that
part of the report submitted by Synod’s Board of Christian Educa-
tion found on page 79 of Reports and Memorials. There we read in
the first paragraph: “Our schools have ever been a mighty factor,” etc.

Synod’s Board of Christian Education, which is in contact with
all parts of Synod and therefore knows the conditions prevailing in
our midst with regard to the Christian education and training of the
young, must have had a good reason for sounding such a warning
and call to action.

As the matter of Christian education is of greatest importance
for the welfare of the home, the Church, and the country, permit us
in response to the appeal of Synod’s Board of Christian Education to
submit, or rather reiterate, a few facts and resolutions for your dis-
cussion and adoption: —

The Christian Home.

The Lord has placed the first and foremost responsibility for the
Christian education of children upon their parents.

‘In view of this fact be it resolved that the Board of Christian
Education be, and hereby is, instructed to make the rehabilitation of
the home, as the most important agency for the Christian education
and training of our children, one of its major objectives for the next
triennium and that the President of Synod, the District Presidents,
the Visitors, the boards of ‘Christian education, and. the pastors be
directed :to lend their full:cooperation-in this undertaking.