# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1911_S25
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13th Delegate Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States, 1911.  25

Our Treasuries.

According to the report of the General Treasurer, on February 1 of this year 11 treasuries of the General Synod showed a larger or smaller cash balance, while five treasuries showed a debt. The state of the Synodical Treasury is relatively favorable. Whereas this treasury showed a debt of $31,317.64 at the end of the previous triennium, it could be closed out on February 1 of this year with a cash balance of $14,195.92. Congregational collections for the Synodical Treasury have increased by about $26,000 in the past triennium. They have risen from $78,806.73 in the triennium before last to $104,812.99 in this triennium. A chief reason for the more favorable state of the Synodical Treasury, however, is the increased income from the Concordia Publishing House. Income from our publishing house has risen from $236,234.84 to $288,200 — that is, by about $52,000.

The state of the General Home Missions treasury was not so favorable. This treasury often had to borrow from other treasuries in order to provide the neediest districts with the bare essentials. The Delegate Synod has, to be sure, repeatedly advised the districts that they should regularly — say, quarterly — hand over the surplus in the district treasuries to the General Home Missions treasury. This advice has, as a rule, not been followed. It should be reported, however, that some districts have resolved to deliver a fixed sum annually to the General Treasury, and that in other districts more has recently been collected, not only for Home Missions within the district but also for General Home Missions, than before. I should also mention that, as three years ago, so also at the close of this triennium an anonymous donor bestowed on this treasury the generous gift of $5,000.00. This has covered the deficit presently on hand, as the General Treasurer reports.

For the General Building Fund about two-thirds of the amount authorized — namely, about $100,000 — has been collected. That the full authorized amount was not collected is due in part to the fact that it was decided not to proceed with the new building at Addison, for which $30,000 had been authorized. Particularly in the circles located nearest to Addison, there is a wish to carry out a different plan, which has been submitted to the Synod in a special petition.

Our Relations Abroad

remain the same. We still stand in brotherly fellowship with the synods that together with us make up the Synodical Conference, as well as with the sister synods in Europe and Australia. Regarding the negotiations with the Reverend Wisconsin Synod concerning the so-called Cincinnati Case, a report of the committee appointed by the Delegate Synod in 1908 is before this Delegate Synod.