# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1905_S108
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108 Proceedings of the 26th General or

...training of colored preachers and teachers, by giving generous gifts of love, so that the $15,000.00 needed for the college building at Greensboro may be raised as soon as possible.

3. Resolved, that all our congregations, or their members, be earnestly asked to take out and read regularly the "Mission Dove," or the Pioneer, both of which serve the Negro Mission.

Japanese Mission.

"The California-Concordia Conference of San Francisco, at its meeting on April 25, dealt at length, among other things, with the question of whether it was not high time for our Synod to extend its mission activity also to the Japanese immigrating here by the thousands.

"The conference was led to such deliberation by the fact that, precisely in recent times, the immigration of these people has increased to such an extent that serious concern is widely felt that our country might be flooded with them. How large the number of Japanese now residing here is could not, admittedly, be determined right away, but it was mentioned that on the last steamer alone from the Orient, the 'Manchuria,' more than 900 Japanese had come here; and this was by no means an exceptional case, but only one example among many; the monthly immigration amounts to at least 1,000.

"It was then pointed out with what zeal and success other church bodies are carrying on mission work among them here. And if even the sects, which after all do not teach the way of salvation clearly and plainly, have made this such a concern of theirs, how much more should we, who have the pure Word of God and the commission to proclaim it to all nations, also follow through on this commission here and take up, in earnest and with zeal, the mission among this poor heathen people! And all the more so since we would not need to go after these heathen at great trouble and expense in their homeland, but they would come to us, so that we would have the best opportunity to work among them. The mission among them is also easy in this respect, that the great majority of them quickly acquire the English language. Successful work among them therefore requires no more resources than the work of home missions right here.

"Attention was further drawn to the fact that these people are exceedingly eager to learn, and not only attend in large numbers all the ordinary