# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1851_S177
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Resolutions of the Synod concerning the above mission
report.

Since it is not possible at this time to employ a missionary and interpreter for the Frankenmuth mission, the Christian Indians there should be advised to move with their families to one of the stations of missionaries Auch or Baierlein; failing that, the latter should care for them.

Since the estimate of 400 dollars for a dwelling for missionary Auch might seem too high, he should be asked to report why a house could not be built more cheaply. The Synod would like to see the estimate reduced from $400 to $300. In all other respects the mission report was accepted.

Concordia College.

From a submission by Mr. Barthel to the board of oversight concerning the endowment of Concordia College, it emerged how meagerly this institution has been supported so far, since the other congregations belonging to the Synod have, in proportion to the St. Louis congregation, done extremely little. The preachers of our Synod are therefore urged to encourage their congregations toward greater participation, to make them more willing through the presentation of God's word, and themselves to go ahead with active example. In particular the board of oversight was instructed to publish an appeal for support of Concordia College in the *Lutheraner*. Since $55.00 had been sent in by Pastor Seidel in Neuendettelsau for the building fund of our seminaries, and since a deficit exists in the building fund of Concordia College that must be covered at once, the sum of $55.00 was designated for the latter.

Political Newspaper.

This matter came up for discussion as a result of a motion from Pastor Gruber. He had recommended establishing a monthly or semimonthly paper that would combine political news with Christian content, on the grounds that the lack of such a paper forces even Christians who do not wish to remain entirely ignorant of current events to draw on papers that spew out the most disgusting poison of blasphemy against God.

Although the Synod agreed wholeheartedly that one must work in all earnestness against the political press, which especially in the hands of German editors seeks to tear down all religion and morality, it nevertheless considered it unfitting to establish a periodical of mixed content; it spoke out instead for a purely political newspaper, to be overseen only by a Christian spirit — for the point was less to awaken and promote Christian sentiment through such a paper, since that is the task of purely Christian papers, than rather to avert offense. A paper with no other purpose than to inform readers of current events, while keeping itself within the bounds of a Christian spirit, would find an incomparably larger readership than if any religious tendency were mixed into it, since many who

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