Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-08-16
CONTROLS LARGE
SCHOOL SYSTEM
General Council Of Lutheran Church
Which Meets Here sooa Is
Important Body.
soTnsTEN WRITES OF IT'S WORK
Has 20 Higher Institutions 81 Learn
lag in Sorth America 81 Which
Augu4tana Is One
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The Lutheran church almanac for
1915, published annually ]u Phi}adsl-
phia. gives the total number of Luth-
eral higher institutions Of learning iH
North America aa 1872. classified as
follows Theological seuinarias, q.
colleges. a. aead emiez - and ladies'
colleges and semiGaries DO. Most of
the colleges and academies are CO.
educational DIT these Institutions 49,
847 young men and Eomen were
studying Of tue beginning at 1915. Of
these institutions of learning tire gen
eral council whose convention VIII
soon be held here. controls q. CLASH
fed as follows theological seminar
les. s colleges. @: academies, z. and
fades colleges and seminaries. J. The
total number ri students at the be-
ginning Of 1915 was 5035.
The theological semiuaries are To-
Gated an Philadelphia. Pa Rock Is
land. haywood 6NHicagot H. Seattle.
Wash and Waterloo. Ontario, Can.
The colleges are located at Allentown.
Pa. Greenville Pa Llndsborg. Kan
Rochester, r. r.. Rock Island. Ill. ST.
Peter. Mimi Eerilworth. Il. J. Null
berry. Ind ana Saskatoon SasE- Can,
The academies are found at Allentown.
Pa. Waho0. %sh, Fergus Falls. MIMI
Minneapolis. MINI. Occur d Alene,
Idaho. Warren. Mimi and Round
Rock, Texas. while The ladies' college
is located at Philadelphia, Pa. Six of
the colleges and silk of fbe academies
are co-educatonal
The councils schools have property
worth S29s3150 and a combined en-
dowmeut Of SI458,236 The bulk Of
the income Of the schools comes. how
ever, from regular communicate mem-
bership assessments among the mem
bers of the controlling syuods, and
from free viii offerings.
Many Parochlai Schools.
In addition TO tile institutions of
higher education we must also men
ton the vast number Of parochial
schools. Sunday schools and coniTma-
lion schools. The Lutheran church
lays much stress on thorough indoc-
trinatiou of the children. and no
means are sighted to accomplish this
end. In the Luther league movement
the educational idea Is very prOmi-
nent The topics prepared for the
use of the young peoples societies are
nearly all doctrinal historical and
missionary. The Lutheran church was
the pioneer in the preparation Of
complete graded system of text books
for use in the Sunday schools The
system Of instruction consists of
series of IA text books for use in the
early years in the home, in the Sun
day school from the primary depart
ment TO the bible class. and in the
teacher training class.
In this connection the periodical lit
erature OF the Lutheran church might
be mentioned. for this is also an edu-
cational institution. The total for all
sypods is PCS periodicals. published in
English, German, Swedish. Norwegian, +
Danish, Icelandi6, Finnish. Slovenian, /
Lettish, Esthonian. Polish. P0rtu-
guese and Lithuanian, OF these y are
published by the general council Its
two large publishing houses are I0cat- +
ed at Rock Island and Philadelphia,
Pa. respectively.
In conclusion we will also mention
the foreign mission work, which is so
largely educational in character The
Lutheran church in America conducts
its work in foreign missions through
u boards in the following countries:
India, Burma, Japan, Africa. China,
Madagascar and Kurdistan Mission
work Is also carried on in Portl Rico
and South America. Two hundred
and eight ordained missionaries are
supported abroad, not counting those
in Porto Rico and South America. The
general council supports Al mission
aries in foreign .elds and six in Porto
Rico. besides about coo native help
ers. Eleven missionaries under ap-
pointment viii be consecrated at the
Sunday evening service during the
coming council meeting. They viii !
go to Indian and Japan. Two of these /
missionaries are from this locality +
Rev. sigfrid Blomgren, son Of Prot. c. /
A. Blomgren, Pm. p. OF Auggstana col /
iege, and Miss Hilma Levine of Gales /
burg.
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