# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1905_S66
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66 Proceedings of the 26th General or

served by Rev. Poch, the congregation has now called a candidate
for the teaching office for the third time. Since no property could
be bought at South Tottenham, a building had to be put up at the
time. The building (20x40 feet) serves as both school and church.

"Rev. Poch, together with teacher Vornsand, also serves a third
mission station in North Woolwich and Silvertown, situated in the
far East [End]. According to the latest reports, the mission work in
Silvertown is progressing gratifyingly.

"Since a debt of $1945.00 still weighs on the property at South
Tottenham, the total debt resting on the property of both
congregations comes to $5785.00. About two-thirds of this sum
bears interest at five percent, for the whole of which — debt,
interest, and principal — the Kentish Town congregation is liable.
That this, and in particular the interest payable quarterly, is a
great burden and a constant worry for the congregation is obvious.
The last Delegate Synod did indeed resolve to pay off the debt
resting on our mission congregations in London (see the report of
1902, p. 73), but for lack of the necessary funds the commission
has not yet succeeded in carrying out this resolution.

"We ask a Reverend Synod to urge the congregations to continue
supporting the London mission vigorously, so that not only can
current expenses be met, but the debt resting on the church
property can also soon be paid down."

"IV. Mission in Australia and New Zealand. When the
Reverend Synod was assembled at Milwaukee in 1902, it received a
telegraphic greeting from its sister synod in far-off Australia,
which it joyfully returned with a greeting of its own. "That was,
since the creation of the world, the first time that two orthodox
church bodies, assembled at the same time on different halves of
the globe, exchanged greetings across the equator," so remarked
D. A. Gräbner on this, who was at that time assembled with our
brothers in the faith in Australia, but whose soul now "hovers in
honor" there, where

    Prophets great and patriarchs high,
    And Christians, one and all,
    Who once did bear the cross's yoke thereby
    And tyrants' bitter thrall,

are gathered in blessed freedom around the throne of the Head and
Lord of the Church, Jesus Christ.

"The last Delegate Synod also, however, had before it a petition from