# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1911_S82
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82 Proceedings of the 28th General or

Should the Reverend General Synod, however, after examining and
weighing this matter, conclude for any reason that it cannot accept
this offer, the district asks a Reverend Delegate Synod at least to
resolve to take over the salaries of the professors for this
institution in the future. —

Resolved:

1. not to accept the institution offered to us as a gift for now,
since we consider it advisable that the district continue to give it
special care, at least in part;

2. that the General Synod take over the salaries of the professors
already called, and in the future call and pay whatever additional
teachers are needed;

3. that the calling, already carried out by the board of oversight,
of a second teacher in the person of one of this year's candidates,
who has already served the institution as an assistant for two years,
be approved.

Seminary at Porto Alegre, Brazil.

On this institution's roll stand the names of 22 students. Of these,
however, only 11 students are actually present at the institution.
Half of the student body must, after attending the institution for
one, or at most two, years, perform relief service at schools that
are at risk, in congregations that have so far waited in vain for
pastors. The shortage of workers in our vast mission field in Brazil
and Argentina is exceedingly great; the school at Porto Alegre is
therefore very important, and caring for it is urgently called for.

Resolved:

1. not to grant the Brazilian District's request for $5,000.00 to
purchase a suitable piece of property and for $20,000.00 to build a
school; but instead

2. to direct the Commission for Inner Mission Abroad to get in touch
with the congregation at Porto Alegre, to find out whether the
congregation, with the commission's assistance up to $5,000.00, could
not provide a place of refuge for the institution;

3. to ask Director Wegehaupt, during his stay in North America, to
bring this matter before our congregations in lectures;

4. to extend the usual appropriation of $100.00 a year to this
institution as well, for its library;

5. to pay the teachers of this institution in the same way as at
their other institutions, namely from the synodical treasury.

Institution at Conover, N. C.

(See under Union of the English with the German Synod.)