# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1884_S68
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68   Proceedings of the 19th General [Synod], or

Armenian — this man had earlier learned German in Berlin and had
studied theology there — and considered that this man, who had since
also become a member of the Lutheran Church, was a suitable person to
carry on a successful mission among his countrymen. The Synod, too,
saw and heard this Armenian — his name is Tschopurian — who attended
the Synod as a guest.

    The Synod, however, could not bring itself to resume the conduct
of the heathen mission just yet. After mature deliberation it
therefore issued the following declaration: However much, on the one
hand, we rejoice from our hearts that among us too the love for the
work of the heathen mission commanded by the Lord to his Christendom
is warm and alive, and however gladly we would like to take up
mission work among the heathen at once, we must, on the other hand,
just as strongly express our regret that, given the great amount of
mission work to which God has thus far directed us, we are not able
at this time to foresee how we may dare, under present circumstances,
to seek out a new mission field for whose conduct we have no
indication from God.

    As for the treasury administered by the Mission Commission, it
had a balance in May 1881 of $202.34. From that time the Commission
took in $4212.17 for lands; other receipts $175.25; of this it
delivered $4159.17 to the General Treasurer; expenses for
publications of the Synod, sent to such missionaries of foreign
societies as asked for them (see the report of the General Synod of
the year 1881, p. 77), amounted to $435.63; other expenses $21.31; the
total receipts thus amounted to $4589.76 and the total expenditure to
$4616.11, leaving an advance of $26.35. — The amounts outstanding for
the last mission lands sold come to about $1200. No unsold lands
remain.

                Jewish Mission.

    "Already at the last General Synod the importance of the Jewish
mission was duly emphasized, but the right man for it was lacking.
The dear Lord has also had that man, and led him from far off in
Turkey to New York — namely the Jewish-mission worker Daniel
Landsmann — after Pastor S. Keyl had for some time been in
correspondence with him. The Emigrant Mission Commission reported on
this to the New York local conference, which also had the Jewish
mission at heart, but wanted first to be certain of having a
faithfully Lutheran missionary. The conference therefore resolved to
send Daniel Landsmann to Springfield for a time, so that he might
become more familiar with Lutheran doctrine and