# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1947_S858
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

856 MISSIONS

these most trying conditions, and has also been with our executive
secretaries and given His holy angels charge over them in all their
perilous ways, so that they could overcome every difficulty and re-
turn safely to their loved ones and their work at home; and.

Wuereas, The Lord has opened to us new doors of opportunity
in every field of our endeavors in Home Missions, so that we have
to confess: “The harvest truly is plenteous, but the laborers are
few,” and since this bountiful, undeserved blessing of the Lord
must move every Christian to humbly confess: “Lord, we are not
worthy of all the mercy and of all the truth which Thou hast be-
stowed upon Thy servants”; therefore be it

Resolved, That this Centennial Convention humbly acknowl-
edge the merciful guidance and protection of our God and Father
and our blessed Redeemer Jesus Christ, and that we express this
gratitude with a humble and joyful doxology at this Centennial
Convention and that we prove this gratitude in a firm resolve to
go joyously forward in our mission endeavors into the second
century. ;

Forward in Missions

Wuereas, All reports and personal experiences of our mission~
aries and representatives in our mission fields in South America,
Philippines, China, India, and Europe indicate that the Lord has
placed before us an open door for His blessed Gospel; and

Wuereas, The present-day world conditions in transportation
and communications has made a much more rapid spread of this
Gospel possible by radio and airplane; and

Wuereas, The Lord has entrusted this Gospel to us and granted
us the grace to keep it unadulterated during the past century; and

Wuereas, This grace of our heavenly Father in Christ Jesus
should move us to boundless gratitude that should express itself
in working diligently and zealously in these last evil days, when
many false Christs and false prophets proclaim their pernicious
and deceitful doctrines; therefore be it _

Resolved, That this Centennial Convention firmly resolve,
under God, to expand the mission activities in all our present fields
and that we enter upon any new fields which the Lord may open
to us with holy courage and in steadfast faith that the Lord of the
Church will bless us according to His promise “I have set before
thee an open door, because thou hast kept My Word.”

Training Native Ministry for South America
Wuereas, Our work in South America (Brazil and Argentine
Districts) has been bountifully blessed and the Lord is constantly
opening new doors to us, which we should enter joyfully and
speedily; and