# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1905_S103
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11th Delegate Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States, 1905. 103

...to come to school regularly, this too will hopefully keep getting better.

"The commission considers it absolutely necessary, if our work at Zoar is to be continued successfully, that another building be erected in which the Indian children — under suitable supervision, of course — may live and have their housekeeping managed for them. If, as up to now, the Indians are to eat in the same room with the missionary's family and in part sleep under the same roof, then no white family will likely be able to endure that in the long run, given how great the Indians' uncleanliness still is.

"A road should also definitely be built, little by little, from Zoar to the nearest town road, a distance of four miles. On the road as it now is, except in winter, the missionary risks not only his wagon every time, but also the horses, indeed his own life.

"The Indian mission has, especially in the last three years, cost a great deal of money. Not only did the whole outfit for Zoar have to be provided and a good team and wagon purchased, but we were also obliged to *umbricken* [literally "to brick," a coined term for refacing with brick] the church and school at Red Springs and build a proper shed for various vehicles and equipment. It also happens not infrequently that we must support entirely poor, helpless Indians, if they are not to suffer the bitterest need. But, thank God, He has made the hearts and hands of the mission's friends willing to supply what is needed. Only in the last few months have the members of the commission occasionally grown somewhat anxious, since it seemed that receipts were no longer keeping pace with expenditures. This problem could easily be remedied, however, if the many congregations that so far have done nothing at all for this mission were willing to make it their own work as well.

"Our treasury report for the last three years, in total, reads as follows:

"Debts three years ago: $1,100.00.
"Receipts: From April 1, 1902, to April 1, 1903...$ 2,598.37
"Receipts: From April 1, 1903, to April 1, 1904... 5,099.11
"Receipts: From April 1, 1904, to April 1, 1905... 4,147.22

                                    Total............$11,844.70
"Expenditures: From April 1, 1902, to April 1, 1903....$ 2,053.69
"Expenditures: From April 1, 1903, to April 1, 1904.... 4,886.68
"Expenditures: From April 1, 1904, to April 1, 1905.... 3,943.40

                                    Total............$10,883.77
"Treasury debt on April 1, 1905........................$ 139.07