# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1887_S74
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74 Proceedings of the 20th General or

the time will probably come when the work supports itself and can,
moreover, generously remember the truly poor.

"10. Our co-worker W. Vopel in Bremen, engaged and salaried by our
Emigrant Mission, labors tirelessly in his faithful way, as before. He
finds himself, to be sure, hindered in many ways, because he lacks
the state license for the full exercise of his office. But since this
cannot be obtained without maintaining a house of our own for
emigrants in Bremen, or without a bond of 50,000 Marks, and since
both are impracticable for us, we are rightly glad of the work he is
able to carry out. Our Saxon brethren have gladly agreed to visit him
and audit his books, for which the Synod's thanks will certainly be
due them.

"11. The Lutheran Emigration Commission in Hamburg also works hand
in hand with us. Although, in keeping with its task, it is just as
ready to serve other church bodies as it is us, not the slightest
favoritism toward us can be detected. It therefore deserves our
fullest confidence, just as it has, despite much slander, kept an
unchanged confidence in us.

"So may this work, pleasing to God, on behalf of strangers, be
recommended anew to the faithful care of the Reverend Synod." (Report
of the Emigrant Mission Commission.)

Report of the Treasurer of the Emigrant Mission Commission in New York.
(W. C. Farr.)

1. Mission Fund.

Income:
1884. From May 1 to Dec. 31, by the former treasurer J. Birkner........$ 1182.89
1885. From Jan. 1 to March 31, by the same.............................. 230.70
1885. From April 1 to Dec. 31, by the present treasurer W. Farr......... 752.51
1886. From Jan. 1 to Dec. 31, by the same................................ 1605.61
                                                          Total.........$ 3771.71

Expenditure:
1884. Deficit on May 1 (Birkner, treasurer).................................$ 863.79
1884. From May 1 to Dec. 31 (Birkner, treasurer)............................ 1417.03
1885. From Jan. 1 to March 31 (Birkner, treasurer)........................... 673.98
1885. From April 1 to Dec. 31 (Farr, treasurer).............................. 1428.12
1886. From Jan. 1 to Dec. 31 (Farr, treasurer)................................ 1500.00
                                                                        ————$ 5882.92

1887. Deficit on January 1......................................................$ 2111.21
                                                    by B. $1541.21
                                                    by F.    370.00

[PRINTED-ERROR: the breakdown "durch B. $1541.21 / durch F. 370.00" comes to $1911.21, $200
less than the $2111.21 deficit it is meant to explain. The income and expenditure totals
themselves ($3771.71, $5882.92) and their difference are exact. Left as printed.]