# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1905_S95
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11th Delegate Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States, 1905. 95

...let us warn you and come to our aid! With the same strength with which we drove out the Cadets from Allen Street, we can also drive the dark mission out of the East Side's Jewish neighborhood. The plague of the Jewish mission must be driven out from our midst. The dark *Meſchumed* [apostate — a convert from Judaism, used here as a term of contempt] has no claim on us or our children.' So much for the Jewish daily paper. Through these spiteful articles in the Jewish papers, however, the Tomche Hajudoth did not achieve its purpose, so other means were employed. The pillars of Israel now posted burly spies near the mission hall. These fell upon the visitors to the mission services with cursing, abuse, and insults, and when that did not work, they set upon them with their fists. Jewish street urchins were also hired, who swarmed around in front of the mission hall and, when the service began, howled, roared, and shouted into the hall like a pack of wild animals. Under such circumstances it was often impossible for the missionary to continue his sermon, and for the visitors to listen with devotion. The police, who here too had already become heavily "Judaized" [verjudet, the report's own word], seemed unwilling to do anything. Although the captain of the police station was approached, both by the missionary and by the Jewish-mission commission, to station a policeman in front of the mission hall during the service, he did so only very rarely, and when a policeman did come, the Jewish boys knew how to lure him away from his post with a false fire alarm so they could continue their disturbances. These disturbances reached their climax when, on a Friday evening during the sermon, shots were fired twice at the missionary.

"Thus the Tomche Hajudoth and the Jewish press did everything they could to deal our mission its death blow. The natural result of these machinations was that the Jews who had attended the services avoided the mission hall, fearing they might come to harm there. It thus became impossible for the missionary to hold public services. The children, too, who had been gathered with great effort and taught with great diligence, were scattered away again. But the pillars of Israel went further still. They brought about a meeting of all the Jewish religious leaders in order to set every lever in motion against our mission in the synagogues as well. This meeting resolved that all Jews who attended the mission or sent their children there should be placed under the ban; their infant sons should not be circumcised, their dead should find no burial place in any Jewish cemetery, and no one should [continue] in the synagogue