The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-08-19


of the Joint Synod are anticipating
with interest the proceedings of the
biennial assembly of the body, which
meets in convention at Dayton, Ohio,
Thursday, and continues it's sessions
until next Tuesday. The Rev. A. J.
Feeger, pastor of ST. Johns church.
this city, leaves for Dayton tomorrow,
where, as president of the Wernle Or
phans' Home, he is member of the pre-
liminary committee, which will ar
range the business of the convention.
Delegates from all the states Of the
Union and from all the Canadian pro-
vinces will be in attendance. Import
ant measures are scheduled for the
gathering, several of which were dis
cussed at Richmond two years ago,
when the synod met in ST. Johns con
gregation. The problem of foreign
mission work in India, which the
Richmond convention referred to the
districts comprising the national body
to ascertain the sentiment OF the
church as a whole, will be definitely
settled at Dayton.
The question of seggregating the
theological seminary and the collegl-
ate department of Capital university,
Columbus, O., and the advisabillty OF
securing field agent for the institu-
ton, it is expected will provike
warm debate. Opinions are divided
and the weekly religious papers of the
synod have been filled lately with ex
pressions of members supporting and
opposing the measures.
The Richmond convention two years
ago closed the theological school,
which was connected with the Pacific
seminary at Olympia, Wash, it being
held by the national body that one
seminary at Columbus, o., and one at
st. Paul, Mimi, would suffice for the
needs Of the church.
II. c. Pechert, of Tacoma, Wash,
a member of the board of trustees of
the Olympia institution, was in Rich
mond today enroute to Dayton. He
said The board of the school and the
Washington district would request the
synod to reopen the theological semi
nary and to give the institution an
other professor.
Interest attaches to the request of
the authorities of the Lutheran semi
nary at ST. Paul, Mimi, flourishing
institution, whose graduates have
gathered and organized hundreds of
congregations in the Northwest and
Canada, that the faculty be increased.
The collegiate department of the
school is modelled after the German
gymnasium" and is rated one of the
strong institutions of the Northwest.
DR.. H. Ernst, president of the semi
nary, will be in Richmond next Sun
day and is one of the speakers who
will address st. Johns congregation.
The publication board of the synod
will appear before the body with re-
quest that an editor be appointed for
a weekly Sunday school paper and
that this office be combined with that
of general treasurer of the synod,
and an official be selected to devote
his whole time to this work. At pre-
sent these offices are filled by men
who perform the work gratuitously.
Richmond residents will be interest
ed in the report which the officials of
the Wernle Orphans Home will pre-
creased cost of living has prompted
the president of the board to ask for
a greater annual appropriation for the
orphanage An extra appropriation
for the construction of septic tank
will also be presented to the national
body.
Attention is called in the report to
the complimentary opinion expressed
on the home by member Of the In
diana state board of health, who in
spected the orphanage last year. I'm
this connection" the report states,
I'VE mention matter that has been
great credit to our institution. After
an official of the state board of health
had made an inspection, he not only
stated to me personally, but also ex-
pressed publicly in one of the Rich
mond newspapers his full satisfaction
with conditions at the home He de-
clared that with respect to sanitation,
arrangements of the building, discip-
line and order among the inmates, the
Wernle Home is the best equipped
and conducted private institution in
Indiana
The report of the Rev. A ]. Feeger,
president of the board, follows in
part:
There are seventy-six children in
the home, thirty-nine boys and thirty
seven girls. We received thirty-three
children in the past two years and re-
turned eleven children to their rela-
tives and guardians. There are now
ten children, under the jurisdiction of
the home, who are in Christian homes
within our synod. Three orphans
have been legally adopted by families.
Two inmates attained legal age in the
last two years and were dismissed
from the institution. Minnie Hawk
was remanded to the institution for
feeble minded persons at Fort Wayne.
F. Stadleman, who completed course
in the Woodville Normal school, has
accepted call as parochial school
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