# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1911_S96
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96 Proceedings of the 28th General or

...teaches [us] to take the Word to heart, the missionary would be able to devote the necessary time. Then he could really be active as a missionary, and in our emigrant mission the emphasis surely ought to lie not on the material, business side but on the actual mission work. The following figures show how much mission work could be done, especially among those who are detained on landing. Between 1908 and 1910, persons were detained as follows: in hospitals, 493; in the Detention House, 4,979; in all, 5,474 persons. Even if not all of these were people our missionary could have served, there was certainly a good number among them.

Our Synod made the local emigrant mission its own as long ago as 1872. Missouri — first at the port of Baltimore, with its wonderful possession of the pure gospel of him who came to seek and to save what was lost — surely ought not to keep the lowest place with its half-time missionary! But that can only be avoided by Missouri having a full-time missionary here, and to that end setting not a half but a corresponding full salary. We therefore repeat before the Venerable Synod our earnest recommendation that it make its local emigrant missionary a full-time emigrant missionary and take responsibility for his full salary.

We advise the Venerable Synod to refrain for the present from establishing or acquiring a hostel, but recommend instead that it authorize the Commission, should the Commission judge it advisable, to purchase or build a dwelling for the missionary, so that he can occasionally take in individual persons. This last recommendation (concerning a dwelling), however, applies only in the event that the Venerable Synod places a full-time missionary in the local work and takes responsibility for his full salary.

Regulations for the Emigrant Mission Commission at Baltimore, Md.

§ 1. The Commission for Emigrant Mission in Baltimore shall consist of six persons, three pastors and three laymen. These shall each serve six years, in such manner that at each Delegate Synod three members of the Commission — two pastors and one layman, or two laymen and one pastor — are elected.

§ 2. The duties of this Commission in general are to conduct the mission among the emigrants in Baltimore and to oversee the missionary's work.

§ 3. The Commission shall elect from its own number a chairman, a secretary, the treasurer for the emigrant mission, and the auditor.

§ 4. Vacancies occurring on the Commission shall be filled by the Commission itself, through the election of suitable persons, until the next Delegate Synod.