# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1902_S139
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Tenth Delegate Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States, 1902. 139

pay their traveling preachers better — that the individual Districts
concerned be asked to raise the salaries of their traveling preachers
where possible.

8. Resolved — on a petition asking that the Synod found an
institution for persons afflicted with the "falling" sickness [epilepsy],
as well as for feeble-minded children — that, since it is not the
Synod's task to establish charitable institutions, the petitioner be
advised to see to it that such sufferers be cared for by private means,
and that to that end the petitioner in question apply to the Children's
Friend Society [Kinderfreundgesellschaft] in Milwaukee.

Greetings.

1. Through Prof. Fürbringer (in person), the greeting of our Synod to
the sister Synod of Wisconsin and Other States, meeting in Milwaukee
at the same time.

2. Return greeting (in writing) from the Reverend Wisconsin Synod to
our Synod.

3. Greeting from the president of the Saxon Free Church, Pastor
Willkomm.

4. Return greeting from the Synod through its General President,
Prof. Pieper.

5. Greeting from our missionaries in India, and return greeting from
our Synod (see pp. 85 and 87).

6. Greeting from the South Australian Synod, and return greeting
from our Synod (see p. 112).

Expressions of Gratitude.

1. Resolved, that through the Synod's secretary the warmest thanks
of the Synod be conveyed to Mr. E. F. W. Meier of St. Louis, Mo., for
his many years of faithful and self-sacrificing service, which he has
rendered to the Synod without charge for 24 years.

2. Resolved, that the Synod express its heartfelt thanks to all the
dear fellow Christians at Milwaukee who so generously covered, from
their own private funds, the additional cost of over $9000.00 incurred
by the new building there.

3. Resolved, that the thanks of the Synod be expressed to the
Nebraska District for the willingness to sacrifice it has shown so far
regarding the teachers' seminary at Seward.

4. Resolved, that the Starke family be given, in writing through
the Synod's secretary, the warmest thanks of the Synod for their
generous debt-free transfer of a piece of real estate that Mr. Starke
had bequeathed to the Synod but which was still encumbered with a debt
of $6000.00 (see p. 132).