# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1944_S670
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

IV. MISSIONS

Report of the Secretary of Missions

If there ever was a triennium of new developments, of rap

times immediate a

violence, of lust and greed
“the Word of God is not bound.” 2 Tim. 2:
on earth nor in hell that can hinder its course.

The War and the Status Quo of Our Missions. — What a ter
rible spectacle it is that unfolds before uS as we
the ravages of war, its devastating influence also
of the Church and its mission!
are hurried to the grave and to eternity to face

forces, No further news has reached us from Mr. Pedlar and
church work in Cornwall, England.

In China and in India our work is much disturbed due to the e

present crisis. Amid many hardships and Privations our mis.

Missions, in these perilous times
workers both in China and in