# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1902_S66
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66 Proceedings of the 25th General, or

distributions was far from sufficient to pay out the sums requested. The
following brief summary may serve as confirmation: In the third and
fourth quarters of 1899, $13,469.11 was requested; $3588.34 was
distributed. — In the four quarters of 1900, $22,853.21 was requested;
$7706.84 was distributed. — In the four quarters of 1901, $20,674.89 was
requested; $8479.85 was distributed. — In the first and second quarters
of 1902, $5543.63 was requested; $5040.05 was distributed. — Total of
funds requested: $62,540.84; total of funds distributed: $24,815.08.

"This brief summary shows the embarrassment in which your Commission
has mostly found itself at the quarterly distributions. This
embarrassment would have been even greater had not the Districts
requesting support exerted themselves to the utmost to raise as much as
possible themselves through collections, and had not, in particular, two
Synodical Districts — namely the Middle District and especially the
Illinois District — assigned considerable sums to the General Home
Mission Treasury. Your Commission was also greatly helped by the
circumstance that the Minnesota and Dakota District, which at times
needed several thousand dollars, has requested no subsidy since August
1901.

"With all this, however, it is not meant to say that the demands on the
General Home Mission Treasury will now decrease in the future. They will
presumably increase; for example, Kansas, whose mission field keeps
expanding further, will need more in the future, and especially our
youngest and, in number, smallest District, consisting of almost nothing
but mission congregations, the Oregon and Washington District, will need
still more vigorous help, since in its promising mission field five new
workers are needed this year, as the secretary of the District's Mission
Commission reported to us under date of April 16 of this year. He closes
his letter with the following words: 'If the Synod is to make up in some
measure for what was neglected years ago in the Pacific Northwest, or
more precisely: if it does not wish, now that so strong a stream of
immigration is once again pouring in here, to miss the opportunity a
second time, if it does not wish our fellow believers to be lost to our
opponents, then it must act now, and we, the Mission Commission here, are
obligated to call attention to this.'

"2. Your Commission takes the liberty of expressing the wish and hope
that an Honorable Synod will find ways and means by which your
Commission may be put in a position to render more vigorous help to the
mission Districts needing support.

"3. We further take the liberty of pointing out that the collections
gathered at mission festivals not infrequently flow into many different
treasuries