# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1902_S105
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Tenth Delegate Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States, 1902. 105

"Our missionary, Mr. Pastor Kretzmann, is present here at this meeting
and ready to give further information, should it be desired.

"May the LORD God fill all our hearts with proper love and proper zeal
for this work among the poor Indians, and continue to bless it as
richly as he has blessed it so far." (Report of the Commission for the
Mission to the Indians.)

After Mr. Pastor Kretzmann, missionary among the Indians, had also
given the Synod an oral report, the Synod adopted the following
resolutions regarding the mission to the Indians:

1. Resolved, that the retirement of the church-building debt in the
amount of $1,100.00 be approved.

2. Resolved, that the commission be permitted to hire a teacher for
the school among the Indians.

3. Resolved, that, following the example of the state and sectarian
schools, a free lunch likewise be provided to the Indian children who
attend our school.

4. Resolved, that the filling out of the commission by the election of
Mr. Pastor E. Hanow in place of Mr. Pastor Nickel be approved.

5. Resolved, that the Synod expects of the commission for this mission
as well that in the future it submit, together with its report each
time, a detailed treasury statement — along with the necessary
vouchers — to the Synod for examination.

6. Resolved, that the Synod asks the dear congregations to remember
this mission work, too, more generously with gifts than has been done
so far.

Mission to the Deaf-Mute [Taubſtummenmiſſion].

"When the commission for the mission to the deaf-mute sets about
reporting to the Reverend Synod, it cannot fail first to point out that
the mouth of the man who used to report on this matter has fallen
silent on earth forever — the man who advocated with eloquent words for
this cause of the kingdom of God and who deserves to be called the true
father of the mission to the deaf-mute in our Synod: it is Pastor August
Reinke, who fell asleep blessedly in the LORD on November 21, 1899.

"It deserves to become known in wider circles how he came to take up
this mission. In his large congregation in Chicago he also had deaf-mute
members, some of whom had attended the institution at North Detroit,
Mich., and some of whom had been instructed and confirmed by him
himself by means of spoken language [the oral method]. In 1893 the then
director of the institution for the deaf-mute sent him the letter of a
deaf-mute person, which read roughly as follows: 'To