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LCMS Convention Proceedings St. Louis, Missouri — 1935, Page 101

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Ey, Luth. Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States. 1935. 101

school with Saturday-schools, summer-schools, and week-day religious
instruction; ;

3. That pastors be held to prepare their lay members for work
in their Sunday-school and that pastors and congregations make such
provisions for the training of Sunday-school teachers, so that the time
may soon come when no teacher will teach in a Missouri Synod
Sunday-school who has not received at least some training;

4. That congregations be urged to provide a two-year course
preparatory to confirmation for all children who do not attend a

parochial school.
Miscellaneous.
Be it resolved: —

1. That the visiting circuits be asked to take a more active part
in the furtherance of educational matters than is now commonly the
case and that this be done according to a method devised by the
Visitors themselves in conjunction with the District President-and the
District Board of Education;

2. That congregations be encouraged to place upon the regular
order of business for their annual voters’ meetings a report on the
educational institutions of the congregation;

3. That Synod continue to urge pastors, teachers, and parents to
send an adequate number of boys to our teachers’ colleges, since our
schools will suffer if teachers are not available for them and since
a drop in the enrolment of our teachers’ colleges may cause a repeti-
tion of past experiences, when there was a serious shortage of
teachers;

4, That Synod instruct the Committee on Higher Education and
the Curriculum Committee to see to it that the suggestion offered
in Memorial 204 be subjected to a comprehensive study and to present
its report and, if it deems it advisable, also a detailed working plan
to the next convention ;

5. That Synod approve the action of the Board of Christian
Education in deferring the calling of an Executive Secretary and that
further action in this matter be left to the discrimination of the.
Board of Christian Education and the Board of Directors;

6. That the faculties of our theological seminaries and our
teachers’ seminaries be represented on the Board of Christian Educa-
tion; that each faculty elect one of its members to serve for a period
of three years, that these faculty representatives be advisory members
of the Board, and that they attend the meetings of the Board at least
twice a year;

7. That the memorial recommending the creation of a parochial-
school extension fund, submitted by the Rev. P.G.Prokopy (un-