# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1944_S701
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

MISSIONS 117

children; and be it further

Resolved, That Synod encourage all our pastors living in or
ities where State schools for the blind are located to invite

. Boarp or Missions To Dear AND BLIND
; and
O. C. ScHRoEDER, Minister to the Blind

409] |
Petition to Appoint a Special Mission Board
for the Blind

:  Wuergas, The vast difference between the deaf and the blind
makes it impossible to combine mission work effectively among
th; and

Wuereas, This vast difference reaches deep into the life of
# both and into their character and their disposition; the deaf soon
# flocking together, since other deaf people are the only people with
“whom the deaf can exchange thoughts, and our missionaries have
) difficulty in gathering them into groups and in building up con-
gregations among them, while the blind do not flock together, their
ing out is very restricted and limited, and even then they must
have a guide or leader, they cannot be gathered together into
groups for regular services; and
‘Wuereas, The blind are totally cut off from books printed with
ink and all other literature and must learn to read by their sense
‘of touch, which the missionary also must learn; and

‘

Wuereas, Mission work among the deaf requires: very much
time to be absent from home and in traveling to and from the many
and often far-flung mission stations and in the preparation for
instruction and sermons in the sign language, while the mission
work among the blind needs all the missionary’s time in a totally
different way at his desk, and now more so with the added work
‘for the Lutheran Library for the Blind, and, the Lord willing, it
can be expected to be increased still more with the proposed addi-
tion of Lutheran literature in Spanish Braille for the blind in
Mexico, South and Central American countries, and the added
work for the proposed establishment of the Lutheran school for
blind children; and

Wuereas, The only connection with by far the most of our
blind people both in our own country and in foreign lands for
the present time is now through correspondence in Braille only,
therefore

are located, who have looked after the religious education of