Evening star., 1937-01-11
COLLECESARE TOLD
NOT TO TRA|[ STATE|
Popular Mind Puts Politics
Over God, Convening
Churchmen Hear.

Churchmen and teachers represent
ing % Protestant denominations and
the Catholic Church gathered in
Washington today for the opening
sessions of the twenty-sixth annual
meeting of the Council of Church
Boards Of Education and the annual
meeting of the National Conference
of Church Related Colleges. The con-
ventions. which continue through
Friday. are being held at the May
flower Hotel.
The National Luthern Educational
Conference and the Presbyterian
College Union, the first groups to meet,
assembled at 10 am. The former dis
cussed the general question of THE
Christian College and American Citi-
zenship" under the direction of its
president, Dr. Conrad Bergendoff,
president of Augustana College and
Theological Seminary, Rock Island, III.
THE task of the Christian college
in the present day is not blindly to
be following the leadership of the
State, but to act as the conscience and
the direction finder for the State"
Bergendoff declared.
Religion in the modern mind, he
said, is less important than politics.
This is still day in which the State
is being defied by many who will
recognize no other God. he went on.
Business Session Opens.
The Lutherans' business session
opened at HIS am. with the report
OF the secretary-treasurer, DR.. H. J.
Arnold of Wittenberg College. Rev.
j. c. K. PreusS, D. D., educational
director and executive secretary Of the
Board of Education, United Norwegian
Church, was to preside at a fellow
ship luncheon meeting at 1890 pm.
The question Of THE Christian Col
lege and Citizenship" was proposed
for discussion at the second general
session this afternoon, with DR.. B.
j. Pershing. professor of church his
tory at HANNA Divinity School,
Springfield, Ohio, leading the talk.
Two Washington churchmen-Rev.
Gerhard E. Lenski. pastor of Grace
Church, and Rev. Oscar F. Black
welder, pastor of the Church OF the
Reformation-were to take part in
sectional meeting symposium on the
subject of THE Function of the
Church in Social Adjustment" at
3:45 pm.
Consul General to Speak.
The Lutheran delegates were sched-
uled to assemble at the Young
Womens Christian Association for
dinner at $50 pm. to hear Baron Won
Tippelskirch, German consul general
at Boston.
Tomorrow's sessions Of the Council
Of Church Boards of Education in
clude five separate meetings-the As
sociaton Of Presidents and Principals
of Northern Baptist Schools and Col
leges, the Church of the Brethren
General Board of Education, the Five
Years Meeting Of Friends Board of
Education, the National Lutheran Ed
ucational Conference, and the Presby-
terian Colleges, who will hold a con-
vocation to consider the sesquicenten-
nial fund for Christian education.
The National Conference of Church.
Related Colleges opens its sessions
Wednesday afternoon, while the
Council of Church Boards of Educa-
ton concludes its meetings the morn
ing of the same day.
Delegates Speak.
Several of the Lutheran delegates
spoke in Washington pulpits yester-
day, among them H. w. A. Hanson,
president of Gettysburg College, Get
tysburg, Pa, who sounded the con-
ference keynote:
THE church Is vitality interested in
what is being taught to the youth Of
our country. 1t is well that the
church should be interested, for no
single area Of American life stands
to lose more or gain more than the
church by this all-important matter"