# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1849_S86
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...oversight of the synod. In response, the mission commission this year
received a deed of transfer, signed by the board of the Evangelical
Lutheran Mission at Leipzig and by the Reverend Pastor Löhe, in which
they declare "that they transfer the direction of the German Lutheran
mission stations in Michigan to the Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and other
States, in the expectation that it will do everything in its power to
further the mission work begun there," etc. The mission commission
had also, on the synod's instructions, entered into correspondence with
the administrative committee of the Protestant Central Mission Society
for Bavaria, and received two letters from it in the course of the past
synodical year. The commission regrets that the Central Mission
Society declined the request to cooperate with us in brotherly fellowship
on the basis of the one confession; the synod recognized, however, that
the Central Society as such could hardly act otherwise, but expressed
the hope that, under the freer civil conditions now prevailing in
Germany, the Lutheran members of that society would withdraw from
it and constitute themselves as a purely Lutheran mission society.

The commission further reports that its secretary has learned that
the missionaries Auch and Maier, who were formerly connected with
the Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Michigan, have expressed their
decision to join our synod.

Regarding the mission in the West, the chairman of the commission
has endeavored to obtain more precise information. As much as he
could learn at the Superintendency for Indian Affairs in St. Louis,
mission stations have already been established by the [various] sects
among the Indian tribes living on the borders of Missouri and Iowa.
Those tribes that do not yet have mission stations among them, such as
the Kickapoos and some others, have declared themselves decidedly
against all mission work. As for Oregon, the war formerly raging there
has now ended.

Proposals.

The synod should declare that it will take over the Lutheran mission
stations in Michigan and the responsibility for their maintenance. Their
needs are as follows:

A. Frankenmuth.

The costs for the half-yearly maintenance of this station are:

1. The interpreter's wage ....................................................... $150.00
2. The maidservant's wage ....................................................      12.00
3. The physician's fee ..........................................................       5.00
4. Contribution toward the support of 10–12 children, who are also
   otherwise supported by the local Ev. Lutheran congregation ........      50.00
                                                                                ———————
                    Total ......................................................... $217.00

B. Bethany.

The Bethany station presently has debts of over 100 dollars; but
Missionary Baierlein believes these should be covered from Germany,
since he sent in the budget concerning them already several months ago.