# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1902_S65
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Tenth Delegate Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States, 1902. 65

Home Missions (including the Mission in Brazil
and London, England).

I. "Since it is in the first place and above all the business of the
Districts, and is reported by them during their conventions, what
progress the spread of the preaching of the Gospel, the gathering and
founding of congregations, has made, how matters stand regarding the
number of traveling preachers, and the like, your Commission takes the
liberty of first pointing to the main subject with which the Commission
appointed by the Synod has to deal: the support, to be rendered from the
mission treasury, of those District Synods which can carry on the great
mission work assigned to them in their territory only in part with their
own funds.

"From the treasury for General Home Missions, the sum of $24,815.08
could be transferred to the Districts needing support during the past
triennium (July 1899 to April 1902). Of this the Southern District
received $7223.50; the Oregon and Washington District $6040.10; the
Minnesota and Dakota District $4591.70; the California and Nevada
District $4218.17; the Kansas District $2330.93; and the Canada District
$410.08. Total $24,815.08.

"Note. Among the sum assigned to the California and Nevada District,
$500.00 was specifically for the mission in Salt Lake City, Utah.

"If we now add to the above sum what has been assigned to the mission
in England, namely the sum of $3260.00, and what has been expended for
the mission in Brazil, namely $5029.68, then a total of $33,104.76 has
been paid out by the General Home Mission Commission during the last
three Synodical years. In addition, the $400.00 annually granted by the
Honorable Synod for the Berlin Mission has been paid out, namely in the
amount of $1162.50 from October 1899 to September 1902.

"Note. In April of this year Rev. P. Amling informed us: 'As you have
no doubt already read in the "Lutheraner," we are, from April on,
foregoing $75.00 annually. Please take note of this with your next
remittance.' Hence the sum of $162.50 (for April to September 1902) is
included in the total sum of $1162.50.

"Your Commission takes the liberty of pointing out the following: 1.
During the past three Synodical years your Commission had the great
joy, only at one quarterly distribution (first quarter, January 1902),
of being able to satisfy the requests of all the Districts fully and
completely — only three Districts had applied. In April 1900 no
distribution at all could take place, since the treasury's balance was
only small. This was assigned to the neediest District — the Oregon and
Washington District. The [continues: at the quarterly distributions]


[Signature at the foot of the page: "5" — a printer’s sheet signature, not a folio.]