# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1947_S902
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

402 MISSIONS

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Number of stations 0 — 250 239 260
Voting members 237 317 387
Communicants _ 2,648 2,906 2,911
Communed — 7,204 8,161 8,856
So naan 4,980 5,939 5,607
Confirmed (children) cee 60 73 37
Confirmed (adults) _._.. 121 100 94
Baptized (children) __. 74 95 96
Baptized (adults) _——— 40 55 44
Marriages . ——- 80 72 76
Burials ———____.. 55 60 63
Number of services 2,558 2,756 2,815
Periods of instructions 2,477 3,090 2,481
Children under instruction _ 792 809 998
Pastoral and missionary calls —— 8,684 7,840 7,347

Total contributions from missions
for all purposes __. $21,037.19 $36,002.71 $42,005.12

lL. The Past Our Lutheran Mission to the Blind

Our Lutheran Mission to the Blind was organized in January,
1927, when the first issue of the Lutheran Messenger for the Blind
appeared in Braille. A few years later the Lutheran Herald for the
Blind was published in Moon type. This was the beginning of our
Lutheran Mission to the Blind, which is now twenty years old.

During these twenty years two magazines have been pub-
lished regularly — the Lutheran Messenger, a monthly magazine in
Braille, and the Lutheran Herald, a quarterly magazine in Moon
type. A library for the blind has been established, which now has
more than 800 volumes in Braille and Moon. At one time Der
Lutherische Bote, a quarterly magazine in German Braille, was
published; likewise, a bulletin in Spanish Braille, Buena Noticias
para los Ciegos. These, however, have been discontinued tem-
porarily, .

Quite a number of our sighted Christians has been trained in
Braille transcribing. Many of our Christian books have been tran-
scribed into Braille by them, and these books are now part of our
library for the blind. A library building was purchased in Chi-
cago, Il, a few years ago, which is also the residence of the
librarian.

In addition to the library, the following books are published and
are sold to the blind at cost: In Braille—The Lutheran Hymnal
(100 hymns), Old Testament Bible History, New Testament Bible
History, The Lutheran Catechism (by Dr. Wm. Dallmann), The
Prayer Book, The Life of Dr. Martin Luther; in Moon type — The
Lutheran Hymnal (selected hymns) and The Prayer Book.

_ ‘Thus for twenty years our Church has published Christian

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