# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1902_S111
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Tenth Delegate Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States, 1902. 111

Wales), and beyond that outward mission work among the native peoples of
our own country, the demands on our various synodical treasuries are not
small. Thank God, our congregations are willing to give, and so our Synod
resolved unanimously to begin the work of Inner Mission in Western
Australia, as willed by the Lord. Candidate E. Fischer was called as a
traveling preacher, and he has now been working faithfully and zealously
for nine months. The Lord has richly blessed this work, so that a number
of small flocks have already been gathered. There is now a great longing
for preaching and pastoral care, and for instruction of confirmands and
schoolchildren. In the far north of Western Australia, where the goldfields
are, in Boulder City, Kalgoorlie, and Coolgardie, people are eagerly
collecting for church building; in the south, in the capital Perth and the
chief port of Fremantle, they wish to do the same. In Perth, 50 children
have been registered for a Lutheran school. Farmers who are fellow
believers have also settled in the farming districts near Albany. So in this
vastly extended mission field we have only the one mission preacher, who,
in his zeal to do as much as possible, must soon wear himself out. Our
Synod would gladly send him another traveling preacher as a co-worker,
but it is not possible for us at this time. — Our church council and
ministerium, especially on the advice of our dear brothers in the ministry
whom the Reverend Missouri Synod sent us, and for whom we are heartily
grateful, have therefore charged me to turn, through you, dear Mr.
*Präses* [president], to your Reverend Synod with the heartfelt request: help
us, and thereby our and your fellow believers, in our Inner Mission in
Western Australia. In what way this might be done we leave entirely to
your dear Synod.

"I close with the wish and earnest prayer to the Lord that He would also
guide and govern this matter, which concerns His kingdom, according to
His will, and I remain in Him

"Yours, united in the one true faith,

"E. Homann,
"President of the South Australian Synod."

Since Prof. Gräbner is presently staying in Australia:

1. Resolved, that action on the foregoing petition be postponed until
Prof. Gräbner has returned from Australia, and that the matter then be
left to the General President, Prof. Gräbner, and the General Mission
Commission to handle as they see best.

Mr. P. E. Hanow, formerly a pastor in the South Australian Synod, felt
bound in conscience to raise a protest concerning certain abuses in that
Synod. After hearing him out, the Synod declared that it could not take up
the matter in question until Prof. Gräbner had returned home from