# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1905_S96
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96 Proceedings of the 26th General or

...be called up or permitted to kiss the Torah. These resolutions were printed in many thousands of copies, posted up in the synagogues, and announced and distributed after every service. Nevertheless, our missionary did not lose courage. He now worked all the more privately with families in their homes. Here the Tomche Hajudoth could not pursue him; their spies could not follow him, nor could the street boys hinder him.

"The question now confronted us whether we wanted to maintain a separate hall for the Jewish mission at all. The hall on Ludlow Street had become useless. After considering all the circumstances, the commission decided to make an attempt uptown. In November 1904 we moved into a small hall in Harlem at East 104th Street and Second Avenue. Many Jews live here too, but they are a different, better, and more respectable class than the *Bündeljuden* [literally "bundle Jews" — a contemporary slur for itinerant peddlers] of the ghetto in the lower part of the city. And behold! After scarcely two months the hall was already too small. Attendance at the services had grown to 24 persons, and the number of pupils to 40 children. This number could not fit in the cramped room. Already by February of this year we moved to East 101st Street and Second Avenue. Here too we do not have too much room. This hall costs $30.00 a month. The missionary is now already in contact with many families uptown, whom he visits regularly. The families downtown, in the former mission field, have not been cut off from his work either, but are likewise visited by him regularly, as are many families in Brooklyn. The Tomche Hajudoth has not shown itself here yet, and would probably not dare so easily to resume its former persecutions here. So the mission work now proceeds peacefully and fruitfully.

"Should anyone ask: What, then, has been accomplished in the last three years? we can point upward and say: The Lord alone knows that. If one asks further: How many, then, have been converted? we can again only point upward and say: That is God's affair; we can convert no one at all. If one finally asks: Besides that one, have you baptized no Jews at all in these three years? we must answer that we have become very cautious about baptizing. For the rest, we comfort ourselves with the apostle's word in 1 Corinthians 1:17: 'Christ did not send me to baptize but to preach the gospel.' The latter has, by God's grace, happened abundantly, as our missionary's summary record of activity shows. Since the