# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1911_S99
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13th Delegate Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States, 1911. 99

Separation of the City Mission and Emigrant Mission at Baltimore.

To the Venerable German Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States, assembled at St. Louis, Mo., from May 10 to May 20, 1911.

The City Mission Society of the congregations belonging to the Evangelical Lutheran Synodical Conference in Baltimore and vicinity begs leave to inform the Venerable Synod that we associate ourselves with the recommendation of a Commission for Emigrant Mission of the Venerable Synod, according to which the city mission and the emigrant mission at Baltimore are to be separated, and join with this Commission in asking the Venerable Synod that, just as it took on full responsibility for this mission when it assumed it, it now also take on the burden of the missionary's salary, so that the emigrant missionary at Baltimore is no longer, as before, supported in part by the Baltimore congregations — to the detriment of their own mission work. —

1. It was resolved to adopt the Regulations for the Emigrant Mission Commission at Baltimore.

2. The determination of the missionary's general duties shall be left to the Emigrant Mission Commission.

3. The two missions — the city mission and the emigrant mission at Baltimore — are to be separated from each other, in that the Emigrant Mission Commission at Baltimore is hereby authorized to call an emigrant missionary.

4. Resolved, that we refrain for the present from establishing or acquiring a hostel, but instead leave it to the Commission to purchase, build, or rent a dwelling for the missionary, as the Commission deems advisable.

Emigrant Mission at Philadelphia.

This mission was set up and begun in March 1910 by Pastor E. Totzke, with the consent of the Venerable General Präses [president] and the Venerable General Vice-Präses. Four major shipping companies — the Norddeutscher Lloyd, the Hamburg-America Line, the American Line, and an Italian steamship line — regularly put in at Philadelphia with their passenger steamers, which bring many immigrants, so that not a week goes by without emigrants landing here. In 1910, 49,771 immigrants landed here, even though the Norddeutscher Lloyd had only set up its Philadelphia line in March, and the Hamburg-America Line not until November 1910. Had these two shipping companies been bringing immigrants to Philadelphia the whole year through, the number would have been considerably higher; and if immigration does not decrease at all, that figure will be far exceeded in 1911, especially since other major shipping companies intend to have their steamers call at Philadelphia as well.