# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1902_S21
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Tenth Delegate Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States, 1902. 21

...preacher a man who travels much and preaches little, namely at the
individual places. Our aim must be to make the pastors settled as soon as
possible. Souls do not receive the care due them from Christ until private
pastoral care [*Privatſeelſorge*] can also be exercised among them, and
particularly until the young can also be instructed in God's Word. — Home
missions in Brazil, whose undertaking the last Delegate Synod resolved
upon, has assumed an altogether unexpected extent. Six workers are active
there, and seven more — six candidates and one pastor — have been called.
The funds for the Brazilian work have so far been sufficient. It is hoped
that they will not fail for the work now further extended either. Further
details on Brazil will be reported by the General Commission for Home
Missions. Likewise, regarding our mission work among the Latvians and
Estonians, the Jews, the Negroes, the Indians, the deaf-mutes, and the
emigrants, as well as regarding the work of our Commission for English
Missions, I refer to the reports which the respective commissions have to
render to the Delegate Synod. — In our heathen mission [*Heidenmiſſion*] in
India, God has, after a longer wait, let us harvest the first fruits, as
the "Lutheraner" has reported in detail. A reinforcement of workers was
urgently needed, as the commission's report will show.

Our Educational Institutions.

In the past two years I have visited all of our educational institutions —
nine in number — and have endeavored to inform myself precisely of their
condition. We have not yet brought them to perfection. There is still room
for improvements. First, with regard to the manner and the scope of
instruction. But the Synod should examine closely the petitions submitted
on this matter and always carefully weigh whether the proposals made are
acceptable at all, or at least feasible at present. Alongside instruction,
the cultivation of the Christian spirit in our synodical institutions is
the great chief concern, toward which our prayer and our work must be
unceasingly directed. Just as the parish school is important for the
individual congregation — that is, the school in which not outward
morality and the rod, but God's Word, rules — so too synodical
institutions are important for the whole Synod, institutions in which none
other than the Lord Christ, through his Word, holds the government. It is
in order to have such institutions that we, as a Synod, maintain
educational institutions. The teachers and the whole Synod must never lose
sight of this purpose of our institutions.

As I now briefly touch on some particulars regarding our institutions, I
direct the Synod's attention to the fact that the number of pupils at our
higher institutions has not kept pace with the growth of...