# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1905_S93
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11th Delegate Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States, 1905. 93

...benefit and blessing from it. And indeed, under the cross a Christian learns to bear patiently what the hand of the Lord lays upon him, and he often gains more experience of faith and prayer in one hour than otherwise in many years. But the best thing is that he learns to hope, because he learns again and again that the Lord does not forsake His own. So we too, although we have suffered abundant tribulation in our Jewish mission over the last three years, do not wish to begin our report with lament, but rather, following the apostle's example, with praise, thanksgiving, and rejoicing; for through these tribulations we have been thoroughly trained in patience, have gained all kinds of useful experience, and, best of all, we have not been put to shame in our hope. To be sure, three years ago we thought the Jews would finally give up their raging and raving against our mission. But we were mistaken. God's thoughts were different; the measure of tribulation was not yet full. As long as our mission hall was located directly near a police station (184 Delaney Street), we were at least outwardly protected from gross attacks. Also, the mission's worst enemy, the superintendent of the Tomche Hajudoth, who once had to be thrown out the door for disrupting a service, had departed this life by death. But in February 1903 we had to take up our walking staff and move away from there. To make way for the approaches to the great Williamsburg Bridge, entire city blocks were torn down, and Delaney Street too was lowered. For several months the hall could be reached only by climbing over heaps of thrown-up earth and rickety wooden stairs, and by jumping across deep trenches. The children who had been won for the Saturday school stayed away, and the adults who had otherwise attended the services no longer came. Since after much searching we finally found a suitable hall at 185 Ludlow Street, it was rented for $28.00 a month. This brought us several blocks closer to the actual Jewish quarter. On Ludlow Street live only Jews — Polish, Russian, Hungarian, and Turkish — so many of them together that the houses are packed full of them from cellar to rooftop. What one can see and smell here is Jewish through and through.

"Here our missionary resumed his work. For a while things also went very well. It was as if the Tomche Hajudoth had forgotten him and the mission, or lost sight of them. Numerous listeners came to the preaching service both on Friday evening and on Saturday afternoon, and a large