# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1899_S75
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Ninth Delegate Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States, 1899. 75

Foreign or Heathen Missions.

"When the Commission's previous report was presented during the
synodical convention at Fort Wayne in 1896, the territory worked by our
missionaries in India was still confined to the one station of
Krishnagiri and the surrounding villages. Since then, at our direction,
Missionary Mohn has, in the city of Ambur, as at a new station,
carried on the work of a preacher of the Gospel, in such a way that in
the city and the villages reachable from there — a territory in which
over 50,000 heathen live, to whom the Gospel had never yet been
preached in this evening-time of the world — he proclaims the word of
reconciliation, and has also founded a school in Ambur, in which,
under his supervision, a teacher and a schoolmistress give the
customary instruction there. At first Missionary Mohn lived in rented
lodgings. On October 5, 1896, however, Missionary Näther reported
that the purchase of a building lot for a mission house had been
concluded, and a submitted building plan was approved by the
Committee. The building has since been carried out satisfactorily
according to this plan. The necessary shelter for a school, as well as a
teacher's dwelling, has likewise been erected by order of the
Commission.

"For the founding of a third station in our mission field, the
Commission had the following occasion. Missionary R. Freche, who
had formerly been in the service of the Leipzig Mission in India but
had withdrawn from its fellowship, had in a letter of March 1, 1897, set
forth to the Commission the reasons for his withdrawal, as well as the
manner in which he had carried it out, and at the same time addressed
to the Commission the request for reception into our Synod and for a
call into our mission service. After thorough discussion of this
submission, the Subcommittee resolved, at a meeting on April 30, 1897,
which Professor Zucker, as Mission Director, also attended, first to have
Missionary Freche state in writing his views on all the main points of
Christian doctrine, on the basis of a number of questions to be put to
him, and to demonstrate his complete agreement with us in all points
of Lutheran doctrine. It was further resolved that our missionaries in
India should be asked to report to the Commission on Mr. Freche's
person, his gifts and fitness for mission work, and his activity thus far.
From the reply to the doctrinal questions submitted to him, sent in by
Missionary Freche in accordance with the above request, the
Subcommittee gained the conviction that Mr. Freche stood in complete
unity of faith and confession with us, and at a meeting of the
Subcommittee on August 27, 1897, again in the presence