# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1944_S874
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

PUBLICATION MATTERS 291

other means of reading devotional booklets except in Braille by
- their sense of touch; and

Wuereas, A number of non-Lutheran blind and deaf- blind
readers also have expressed this desire for our Lutheran devo-
tional booklet, therefore

The undersigned and other blind fellow members of the Hon.
Missouri Synod do hereby request the following of the Hon. Synod:

That the mission board for the blind be authorized to have the
English semiquarterly devotional booklet published in Braille, so
that the blind and the deaf-blind also may enjoy and find strength
- and comfort in these booklets of devotion. FREDERICK GRAEPP

[716]
_Pablication of Lutheran Literature in Spanish Braille
for the Blind of Latin America

Waereas, The Lutheran Hour reply mail from Latin America,
namely, from Mexico, South and Central America, has given
ample and overwhelming proof that a great, almost entirely un-
explored and untouched mission field still lies in wait for our Lu-
theran Church among the millions of people in the neighboring
‘nations below the Rio Grande River; and

Wuereas, Reliable reports show that there are estimated to be
some 200,000 blind in South America alone, to say nothing of the
unestimated number of blind in Mexico and Central America; and

Wuereas, Willing helpers can be found among our fellow
Christians of this country, who after brief training will be ready
to assist in transcribing the treasures of our Lutheran literature
into Spanish Braille for the blind of Latin American nations;
therefore

I, Frederick Graepp, one of the founders of, and now a blind
‘ Lutheran volunteer worker for, the Lutheran Library for the
Blind, which was adopted as the Hon. Synod’s own institution at
the 1941 convention, do hereby urgently request the Hon. Synod
to permit and sponsor the publication of Lutheran literature in
Spanish Braille for the. blind of Latin America, in the name and
to the glory of our common God and Savior, under the auspices of
- the Hon. Synod and under the supervision of the Hon. Synod’s
Mission Board for the Blind. A. Freperick GRagpr (blind)

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