# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1899_S91
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Ninth Delegate Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States, 1899. 91

help, playing the organ, leading the singing, and giving a class instruction
in Bible history — and all this for the sake of her Savior.

"Every Tuesday and Thursday evening during the winter season a Bible hour
was held, at which every Jew present was given full opportunity to ask
questions regarding the Christian religion. On other days as well your
missionary spent several hours at the Jewish mission hall, to give those
who wished it the opportunity to see and speak with the missionary to the
Jews privately. The rest of his time he filled with house calls and the
distribution of tracts and New Testaments. Besides this work he also
preached and gave addresses in the interest of the Jewish Mission in
sixteen different congregations in New York and its vicinity — addresses
which, thank God, have not remained wholly fruitless. Your missionary has
also given six adults special religious instruction at various times. —
The difficulty of getting Jews who are drawing near to Christianity taken
into employment by Christians — for the mistrust felt toward them seems
insurmountable — is a great hindrance to the blessed development of
mission work among the Jews, as the late missionary Landsmann so often
testified as well.

"To set forth in figures, so far as that is possible, the activity of your
missionary from November 1896 to March 1899, it comes to this: he has held
112 sermons before 2,983 hearers and 68 Bible hours before 192 hearers.
He visited 1,824 families, of whom 1,747 were in New York, 75 in Brooklyn,
and two in Hoboken. Private visitors called on him 2,052 times at the
mission hall and 225 times at his home. He distributed among his kinsmen
4,018 tracts, 382 Testaments, 2 Bibles, 406 children's papers, and 6 small
catechisms.

"Thus the seed of the divine Word has been sown even among the poor,
blinded people of the Jews. May God grant that many souls from Israel may
through it be brought to the knowledge of their Mashiach [Messiah] and
Savior, Jesus Christ." (Excerpt from the report of the missionary to the
Jews, Nath. Friedmann.)

Resolved, that the call of Missionary Nath. Friedmann into the service of
the Jewish Mission be confirmed.

Resolved, that the Commission for the Jewish Mission be permitted to rent a
suitable hall for the mission worship services, at its own best discretion.

Resolved, that the pension for the widow of the late missionary D.
Landsmann, granted by the Commission pending the meeting of the General
Synod, be approved.

Resolved, that this pension, drawn from the Jewish Mission treasury, be
repaid to the Jewish Mission treasury out of the General Relief Fund.