# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1860_S70
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It was thereupon resolved that the two mission stations the Synod has
be retained, and that work on them be continued.

Missionary Miessler was given the charge to follow the Indians who
have moved from Bethany to Isabella County, without, however, cutting
off the possibility of returning to Bethany should it become
necessary, and the Mission Commission was left to arrange everything
needful for this.

Missionary Cloeter in Minnesota is to be written to by the Mission
Commission that we are prepared to continue supporting him as well,
if he recognizes it as God's will that he continue working there. He
should not, however, persevere at his post merely because we charge
him to, for he must also have, for himself, cheerfulness for
persevering. He should therefore examine himself; if he has this
cheerfulness, or gains it through our testimony, he should confidently
carry on. We would, incidentally, not let the station lapse even if
he himself should come to recognize that he was not the right man for
it. Missionary Cloeter is furthermore to be asked how, in his own
judgment, given his circumstances, we could best assist him, and the
Mission Commission is to be authorized to carry out his wishes.

Let it be noted here, as the most fitting place, that missionary
Miessler, at the wish of many delegates, gave an address in the
Chippewa language at the close of the ninth session, which was
interpreted by Mr. Heinrich Cramer.

Mission Among Our Scattered Fellow Believers.

Two letters to the Synod concerning home missions were read aloud:
one from Pastor Selle, in which he put to the Synod the question
whether it might not be possible for it to provide assistant
preachers to pastors to whom a wider mission field has opened up, and
to support them, at least at the beginning of their work; the other
from Pastor Doescher, in which he asked the Synod, since he already
had to preach in 17 different places and also hold school in his home
congregation at Iowa City, making it impossible for him to expand a
sphere of work already covering some 300 miles, to provide him an
assistant (perhaps the seminary student Lossner of Fort Wayne) who,
while residing in Iowa City, would be bound neither to that
congregation nor to any other, so that he could undertake mission
journeys, including longer ones, from there as from a central point.
These letters prompted further discussion of the necessity, and the
most suitable way, of carrying on home missions. It was recognized
that the most suitable way to do this, short of sending out dedicated
evangelists, was for pastors who have opportunity for mission work to
be given assistants, who should be given support as needed. Dr.
Sihler reported that Pastor Rupprecht, who is presently without a
charge, could serve as a traveling preacher if he were supported.