# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1878_S53
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Resolved, that from the same treasury, in favor of the mission to the Negroes, the cost of acquiring a building lot at Little Rock, Ark., and of building a small church on this lot, be defrayed.*)

Mission to the Heathen.

Although our synod at present has no mission to the heathen of its own, it is nevertheless necessary that its commission for this mission continue in existence. The mission property already on hand itself requires the continued administration of a commission appointed for it.

Resolved, that the Commission for the Mission to the Heathen continue in existence for the further administration of the mission property.

Resolved, that the Commission for the Mission to the Heathen shall, free of charge, deliver one copy each of our synod's publications, whether books or periodicals, to such missionaries of outside mission societies as request them.

Home Mission [*Innere Miſſion*].

Resolved, that the work of home mission, so richly blessed by God until now, be laid especially and urgently upon the hearts of the dear congregations of our synodical body, and that they thus be encouraged to support it ever more vigorously, with all their means, through their faithful intercession and the offering of gifts of charity.

Resolved, that the individual district synods be permitted to use the funds collected among them for home mission, as needed, also within their own districts.

Resolved, that any surplus of the mission funds of individual districts be delivered to the general treasurer from time to time.

Resolved, that those district presidents who make claims on the general mission treasury for carrying on home mission may, annually and immediately after the meeting of the district synods, report to the president of the Mission Committee how much money is necessary for the mission of their district.

Resolved, that whatever funds for home mission happen to be on hand in the general mission treasury shall be distributed by the Mission Committee according to the need of the home mission of the general synod or of the district synods.

*) In explanation of the above resolutions, let it be remembered that the conduct of the mission to the Negroes on the part of the Synodical Conference is, until its next meeting, a provisional one. It will become definitive only once all the synods have given their consent.