# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1905_S86
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86 Proceedings of the 26th General or

...preach there to hundreds of poor deaf-mute, for example at
Delavan, Wis., 210 of them. Our missionaries are gladly received there,
since they work so entirely differently from the sectarian preachers. In
these three years they have been able to show the way to salvation
through faith in Jesus Christ to some 1,630 deaf-mute persons.

"Pastor H. Hallerberg has left St. Louis since the last Synod and
accepted a call to the hearing congregation at Jacksonville, Ill. He has
not, however, withdrawn entirely from this mission, but serves,
alongside his hearing congregation, the deaf-mute in Jacksonville, Ill.,
and in a few other places as well. St. Louis, despite all your
committee's efforts, is still vacant and is only inadequately served,
along with the rest, by our other missionaries, particularly by Pastor
Wangerin of Milwaukee, Wis. May it please God to grant us a man for
St. Louis again soon, which is all the more necessary since the
missionary there always also gives instruction in sign language to a
number of our seminary's students.

"Pastor Gielow has left the service of this mission and has
accepted a call as director of our institution for the deaf-mute in North
Detroit.

"If only we had the people, this work could be significantly
expanded. Your committee has repeatedly been made aware of various
cities where mission work among the deaf-mute could presumably be
carried on with success. Most recently an appeal has come urging us to
take up the cause of the deaf-mute in the states of Washington,
Oregon, and Idaho, who are said to be entirely without religious care
and who would gladly welcome a missionary; but none of these calls
for help could be heeded, since our present missionaries already have
their hands full and there is no prospect of being able to put new
workers into the field.

"The deaf-mute gladly accept the service of our missionaries. Their
eagerness and attentiveness at the services is repeatedly praised by
our missionaries. They are also beginning to raise money themselves;
last year (1904) they raised the sum of $1,424.30.

"A particularly important and joyful event in this mission was the
erection of the deaf-mute chapel in Chicago, which admittedly turned
out more expensive than the committee — and probably the Synod as
well — would have liked, namely $7,436.74. That the sum is so high is
explained by the fact that it was built of brick, and at a very expensive
time,