# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1884_S74
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74   Proceedings of the 19th General [Synod], or

here, and there are such places even today. It is true they have no
chapel, but guests find a friendly welcome there, ample and tasty
food, clean beds, and honest treatment. We only send a small portion
of our people to an inn, in any case; our aim, rather, is to spare
them unnecessary delay and expense and to forward them onward as
quickly as possible.

    "In connection with this we would like to take the liberty of
drawing a Reverend Synod's attention to a passage in the minutes of
the last Delegate Synod of the year 1881, which reads, on page 77, as
follows: 'Through the dissolution of our former connection with the
emigrant house at New York, the provision of a house of our own, at
the sole service of our mission, has also become a necessity, for
whose speedy satisfaction many hearts and hands should open
themselves.' — This necessity has in the past three years proven
itself unavoidable, since conditions at, and our connection with,
Castle Garden have, especially of late, developed in such a way that
our missionary can only reach the immigrants assigned to him if we
have a house of our own. It is true that in past years we have
repeatedly looked around for a suitable location, and also for a
suitable man who would be ready and able to take over and run such a
house for us. But in vain. This has its great difficulties. For one
thing, the price of land and houses in the part of the city of New
York in which Castle Garden and the emigrant lodging houses are
situated is enormously high, and further, not everyone who has the
good will also has the gift of making a good landlord. Since
experience has now taught that no one has been found among us who
would have begun such a house, and the committee has also not dared,
as such, to purchase a property, since it was not authorized to do so
by the Synod; but since a house of our own for emigrants is an
absolute necessity if our work is not simply to be crippled: we
consider it called for that the Reverend Synod authorize the
committee to acquire and set up such a house in the name of the
Synod.

    "Finally, we would like to recommend to a Reverend Synod that
Pastor Keyl's salary be raised from $1200 to $1500 a year, since the
salary he has had until now, on which Pastor Keyl is solely
dependent, no longer suffices, under New York conditions, for the
bodily sustenance and necessities of his family.

    "The total receipts from May 1, 1881 to May 1, 1884 amounted to
$4798.76, and the total expenditures — including a treasury debt of
$347.04 — to $5662.55. There is accordingly at present (May 1, 1884)
a deficit of $863.79 in the treasury.