# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1947_S898
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

398 MISSIONS

g. Development of a Sound Lutheran Literature in Danish

The theological position of the Danish State Church pre-
cludes our use of any of the literature published for church use
in Denmark. If we are to foster an aggressive missionary move-
ment in Denmark, we must be prepared to provide sound Lutheran
literature, either by translating proper German and American
devotional and theological books or by modernizing and printing
such older Danish books as have the proper doctrinal content,

h. A Church Building on the Island of Langeland, Denmark

This is the most promising and mission-minded congregation in
the Danish Free Church. A church building which can become
the center of the missionary activity on this Island is an im-
mediately essential project.

i. The Purchase of Property in Antwerp, Belgium

The necessity for this purchase has already been referred to
in a previous section of this report.

j. Support for Foreign Students in Colleges and Seminaries
in the United States

In order to provide for the replacement of present pastors in
France, Belgium, and Finland, some of whom are nearing the age
of retirement, and in order to provide manpower for the expansion
of the work, it will be necessary to provide for the training of
replacements. Such replacements should for obvious reasons be
natives of the countries served. Because of the political conditions
it would not be wise to train these men at the seminary in Ger-
many. It will therefore be necessary to recruit young men who
will be willing to take their training, both college and seminary,
in the respective schools of the United States and to furnish the
financial assistance to make this training possible. Already there
are prospects that at least four such students will be ready to
begin their training in the near future.

A European Representative Necessary

3. A program of the magnitude outlined above could not have
been conceived, planned, nor presented by your Board without
a full-time worker, much less can it be put into effect without one.
For that reason your Board has for the past year employed the
Rev. Walter C. Daib as its European representative.

It is the duty of this representative to visit Europe periodically
for longer periods of time in order to carry out the policies and
the programs which your Board has adopted. That this visitation

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