# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1899_S65
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Ninth Delegate Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States, 1899. 65

grant only $600.00. That will suffice to prove to everyone that we have
not exaggerated in this account.

"2. Secondly, we take the liberty of calling a Reverend Synod's
attention to the fact that, when particular missions are assigned to this
Commission for its care, it is then obliged to take the money for their
support from the fund for General Home Missions and thereby withdraw
it from the mission for which it was intended. Should not, in such
cases, a special commission be created, as for instance with the
Deaf-Mute Mission, or at least special funds be set up and then likewise
provided for through Christian charity, from which the support could
be met?

"3. Several districts have made arrangements to help mission
congregations to a little church, by lending them, interest-free, funds
out of a church-building fund or whatever else it may be called, which
are to be repaid to the fund at set times according to circumstances and
means, so as then to serve other small flocks again in the same way in
turn. The difficult question that has caused many a mission board no
little embarrassment — namely, how mission congregations are to come
by a house of God — has thereby been brought closer to a happy
solution. Little by little such funds will of course come to command
ever larger amounts of capital, since the money is only lent, not given
outright, and repayment is seldom lacking — for it is, thank God! still
good Lutheran practice that a Lutheran congregation pays its debts —;
the mission is thereby given welcome help. We think that every
possible encouragement should therefore be given to such an
arrangement.

"In the year 1896 the Delegate Synod assembled at Fort Wayne
resolved that a small flock of Lutherans in London, England — poor in
means but faithful — should, at their request, be sent a pastor from
our midst; and further, that the carrying out of this resolution, both as
regards the suitable person and as regards the arrangement of the
financial circumstances, be placed in the hands of the Commission for
General Home Missions, that is, be left to that Commission to act
according to its best judgment in keeping with the wish and will of the
Synod. In consequence of this charge, your Commission, in agreement
with the Reverend Faculty of the theological institution in St. Louis and
the district presidents, committed the calling of the mission
congregation in London to the candidate of theology, Mr. F. W.
Schulze, who then took up his office in the overseas city of millions in
the fall of that same year. He was inducted into his office by a pastor
of our sister synod, the Free Church in Germany. God has given us the
right man for this mission; with great diligence, tirelessly, skillfully he
has planted and watered. Since he himself is present at these sessions,
we shall surely be excused from saying more.

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