# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1944_S703
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

MISSIONS = 119

s.and other causes, we view with astonishment and divine
oration the great blessing that has been vouchsafed to our joint
issionary labors.. When our first missionaries went to India, they
not have a single Indian Christian nor a single Indian mission
; orker. Today, however, we are permitted to report the fol-
wing figures for India and for China.
If statistics on our foreign mission work are still less complete
they were in 1941, they show a far from discouraging picture
eroic devotion and self-sacrifice on the part of our American

In India we have: 30 male missionaries, 3 female missionaries,
5 wives of missionaries, 61 children of missionaries; total, 119.
*“*, Of national co-workers we have: 14 pastors, 13 evangelists,
97 catechists, 12 Bible women, 240 schoolteachers, 23 medical
d industrial workers; total, 499.

. Souls: About 20,000 under our care.

tatistics for China

In China we have: 7 male missionaries, 2 female missionaries,
. wives of missionaries, 5 children of missionaries; total, 16,
Of national co-workers: 7 pastors, 9 evangelists, 2 vicars,
6 schoolteachers, 6 Bible women, 17 medical employees; total, 77.
Souls: 2,000.

‘Quite naturally, the war has aggravated the usual difficulties
in maintaining our personnel on the field at necessary strength.
At their request the following missionaries were given a peaceful
elease from foreign missionary ‘service since the late Delegate
synod, in order to enable them to accept calls in the States: Dr.N.
Leckband, M. G. Kuolt, E. H. Meinzen, W. W. Gnuse, W. E. Reiser,
and H. Lachmann from our India field.

From service in our China field were released the brethren
. C. Diers, H. Klein, E. H. Thode, and L. A. Buuck. The three
st-named, as also Mrs, A. Ziegler and Missionary E. C. Zimmer-
ann and their families, had been prisoners of the Japanese and
‘later were repatriated. All of these brethren and their families
endured many of the most harrowing features of bitter warfare, but
ere mercifully spared the worst by our heavenly Father.

Against this loss of missionaries we can report only a gain
of two new missionaries to China, namely, the brethren H. Hinz
id Ralph C. Egolf.

Neither in India nor in Free China were our missionaries
hampered in their work, with the exception of necessary police
estrictions. Our missionaries in Free China have written that
their country is still the largest missionary field of which they