# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1884_S25
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Fourth Delegate Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States. 1884.   25

York several times. How highly people even outside our circles there
regard our emigrant pastor is shown, among other things, by the fact
that the well-known "German Society" [*Deutsche Gesellschaft*] there
offered him an important and very advantageous position, and then sent
a letter to our Synod's General Presidency with the urgent request that
no obstacles be placed in the way of calling Pastor Keyl into their
service. His lectures on the emigrant cause have awakened renewed zeal
in many congregations. He should therefore be asked to make such
circuit tours as often as possible.
As for the relationship to the emigrant house on State Street, I am,
from what I myself saw and heard there, fully convinced that our
commission could not have acted otherwise than it did; but also that we
ought, in some way, to establish an emigrant home of our own, should
the stream of immigration not perhaps seek other destinations, and
should it become at all possible to obtain the right people and the
necessary means. I therefore take the liberty of recommending the
commission's motion to that effect, as well as the other one concerning
a salary increase. — Time unfortunately did not allow me, during my
stay, to accompany our missionary in Baltimore in his work as well. But
the report submitted from there gives sufficient testimony that there,
too, the immigrants have been received, provided for, and forwarded on
in the best way. — Let us, then, not grow weary of securing for these
newcomers, through our gifts, the many benefits they have so far
received abundantly in both places!

The mission to Black Americans [*Negermission*] belongs, it is
true, not to our Synod alone but to the whole Synodical Conference; but
since I learn that support for it is beginning to fall off in a truly
worrying way, I cannot fail to say at least this much here: that, to the
best of my knowledge, this work still deserves, even now, the same
confidence it has always had, in full measure.

The wish to be allowed to bring the Gospel to the Jews as well,
which the last synod expressed, has been fulfilled unexpectedly soon. A
report to be presented will give very gratifying details of the beginning
and progress of the mission to the Jews in New York.

That our activity for the mission to the heathen [*Heidenmission*]
has come to a complete halt for so long a time is certainly a matter of
regret to us all. We do, after all, have not altogether insignificant funds
for it in our hands; our congregations are, for the most part, especially
willing to give for this very purpose; and more and more the wish is
being voiced that we should make a fresh start with it. Now it would,
of course, be foolish if, merely to satisfy this urge, we wanted to rush
blindly into something, anywhere. But neither should we, simply
because we as yet see no open doors, stop