# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1887_S66
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66 Proceedings of the 20th General or

"The itemized statement of income and expenditure of the treasury
entrusted to us is shown in the appendix. According to it, the
Commission had, on May 7, 1884, a deficit of $26.35 in its treasury. The
receipts (mostly from mission lands sold) came to $1486.26; the
expenditures (mostly cash remittances to the General Treasurer) to
$1401.99, so that a cash balance of $79.27 is presently in our hands.

"It should be noted here that all former outstanding amounts for
lands sold have now been paid in full, and that, after turning over the
above cash balance of $79.27 to the General Treasurer, a Mission
Commission for the administration and disposal of real property no
longer appears necessary, since no such property remains.

"The expenditures for Synod publications sent to missionaries of
outside mission societies who annually submitted a request for them
came to $129.69.

"It should further be reported that the Commission considered it
necessary to provide the still-preserved Indian cemetery at Bethany,
Mich. — where many Indians who fell asleep in the faith lie buried,
together with others who had been committed to our mission — with a
new, substantial enclosure (picket fence) and gravestones, as well as a
colossal cross, for which $102.25 was paid from the mission treasury and
$20.00 by the former missionary and now Dr. med. E. S. Mießler of
Chicago." (Report of the Commission for Foreign Missions.)

Resolved, that the General Synod authorizes its Commission for the
Heathen Mission to take preliminary steps toward the goal that the work
of the heathen mission may also be undertaken by it, the Synod, outside
our own country. It therefore charges the said Commission to survey the
fields that would be suitable for our Synod's undertaking of such a
heathen mission, and in particular to consider the island of Ceylon, on
which Lutherans who have already immigrated from other missions are
to be found. — The Synod further charges its Commission to look for a
suitable man under whose direction the mission could be set to work,
and to look out for capable young men who would be willing to have
themselves sent out as missionaries among the heathen. On these points
the Synod hopes that its Commission will in due course submit fuller
particulars for further resolution.

"Resolved, that the sum of $4000.00 be transferred from the treasury
for the heathen mission to the Commission for the Negro Mission for
the establishment of a new station in New Orleans.

"Resolved, that the congregation at Saginaw City, Mich., be
requested by the Synod — regarding what is still on hand and has heretofore
belonged to the heathen-

[SCAN: faint word-fragments show through on the right margin from the facing page (p-073); not transcribed.]