# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S434
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

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434 MISSIONS

by all who have used it. The translation of the Pieper-Mi
‘Christian Dogmatics by Martinho Hasse is nearly completed,

Miscellanea. — Since the Chicago Convention, 1947, tw
tricts have become self-supporting, the Southern and Texas#
tricts. When our congregations in the Florida-Georgia fiel
granted permission to organize a separate synodical Dis
their own, the Southern District found that it could carry ©
work without further subsidy. When ten congregations in T
heretofore receiving a subsidy of up to $20,000, declared that ‘tk
would, with the help of God, get along without further assis
at the beginning of the present fiscal year, it became possibl.
the Texas District to become self-supporting. Overjoyed by st
development, President O. R. Harms issued a proclamation. t
congregations of Texas, setting aside Sunday, January 8, 19504
a day of thanksgiving to the Lord, who had made this achiey
ment possible. By their splendid accomplishment the cong
tions of the Texas District have enabled the Mother Chuté
extend the borders of Christ’s kingdom to new fields with'ft
which have thus been set free. .

A Japanese mission with a resident pastor was established
the Southern California District in the Los Angeles area. :
ishing Chinese mission is conducted by the Atlantic Disir!
New York City. A Chinese mission in San Francisco is no
serious consideration.

A Day of Glorious Opportunity

Surely, as we read the above report and the reports 6
various mission departments of our beloved Church, we cannot’
join in the triumphant doxology: : “Praise God, from who
blessings flow.” Indeed, His blessings have been flowing *:
the mission program of our Church for more than 100 ye
As we permit our mission fields to pass before our mind’s ‘eye
panoramic view, as we survey the crying needs of “all men é
where,” as we contemplate the 275 vacancies within our Chur ]
we ponder the fact that our seminaries this year will not gradi

retired during the past 12 months—in short, as we look:
upon the fields so ripe for harvest and consider the scar¢i
laborers, we feel constrained to issue a Macedonian call-to.;
members of our Church to come over and help us. Truly,

Lord needs a vast army of reapers — far more than the 4,000,:n:
fessionally trained members of our ministry. He needs the 1,700,008
consecrated Christians who make wu ~The Lutheran Ch
Missouri Synod. May this convention — and may the trie