# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1902_S110
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110 Proceedings of the 25th General, or

through neglect! And they cannot complain of their distress to others;
most of them cannot even pour out their troubled heart to God, because
they do not know him!

"May God awaken many hearts to take up the spiritual distress of the
deaf-mute, hearts for whom it is a joy to be allowed to help bring them
the highest and best thing there is, the Gospel of JEsus, who has
purchased their souls, too, with his precious blood!" (Report of the
Commission for the Mission to the Deaf-Mute.)

1. Resolved, to approve that the commission has not published a paper
of its own for the deaf-mute, but has instead used the fourth page of
"The Lutheran Pioneer" for the mission to the deaf-mute.

2. Resolved, that the surplus of money (in the amount of $1,000.00),
which was collected for building a chapel for the deaf-mute congregation
at Milwaukee, be used for building a chapel for the benefit of the
deaf-mute congregation at Chicago.

3. Resolved, that the Synod cordially asks the congregations to
support the work of the mission to the deaf-mute, so necessary and so
richly blessed by God, more vigorously than has been done so far.

4. Resolved, that the commission in future submit to the Synod for
examination, not merely a brief treasury statement, but each time a
detailed report on income and expenditures — together with the
necessary vouchers.

South Australia and New Zealand.

"On behalf of the church council of our South Australian Synod and at
the unanimous wish of our whole ministerium, I turn to you, Reverend
President, with the heartfelt request: that you lay before your
Reverend Synod our state of need, in which we find ourselves with our
home mission in Western Australia, and that you express the request
that you help us. You already know that a great number of fellow
Lutheran believers have gone there to find their daily bread, especially
through work in the goldfields. With few exceptions, it was earthly want
that drove them to it. But in by far the largest state of our Australian
continent there was no Lutheran congregation, nor even a
German-Protestant one of any kind. In recent years, therefore, the
repeated cry has come to our Synod: 'Come over and help us!' Since our
Synod does not have a large number of congregations, since these cannot
on average be regarded as rich or prosperous, since we must support a
number of very poor congregations in order to preserve for them the
treasure of Lutheran parochial schools, or must now, after an eight-year
crop failure, try to help such congregations with bread and seed wheat,
with food and clothing; and since we are carrying on home mission work
among fellow believers at Broken Hill (silver mines in New South