# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1911_S101
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13th Delegate Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States, 1911. 101

...charged the aforementioned Local Conference with addressing a corresponding petition to the Venerable Synod. The resolution of the District Conference reads as follows: "Resolved, that the Baltimore Pastoral Conference urge upon the next General Synod that it take over the emigrant mission established in Philadelphia, appoint a missionary, and assume full responsibility." —

Resolved, that the Synod express its joy that Pastor Totzke, with the consent of the Venerable General Präses [president] and the Vice-Präsides, and at personal sacrifice of time and strength, has taken up the so important work of an emigrant mission in Philadelphia;

that the Venerable Synod place an emigrant missionary in Philadelphia, and that the amount of his salary be set by the Commission;

that the Venerable Synod elect a Commission from the pastors and laymen of the congregations in Philadelphia, to direct and oversee the missionary's work;

that the Commission to be elected draw up, by the next Delegate Synod, a set of regulations for the emigrant mission in Philadelphia.

c. Foreign-Language Missions at Home.

Before the Venerable Synod lay the reports of its Commission for Foreign-Language Missions, a petition from the New York Pastoral Conference concerning the Persian mission, a petition from the Mission Commission of the California and Nevada District concerning the Finnish mission, and a request from the Mission Society in Baltimore regarding the debt burden of the Polish congregation there.

The Commission for Foreign-Language Missions reported as follows:

In accordance with the Venerable Synod's directives, the Commission for Foreign-Language Missions begs leave to present below its report on the state of the missions entrusted to its care and oversight during the past triennium.

For better orientation in the field of these missions, which are known among us as "foreign-language missions," the following is set out beforehand.

When, three years ago, in 1908, the missions among the Lithuanians and Poles, previously conducted by the Atlantic and Eastern Districts, were taken over as its own by the Venerable General Synod at these districts' request, the Venerable Synod found it advisable to place these missions under the direction of the Commission for Estonian and Latvian Mission, which the Synod has conducted since 1899. The Synod thus now had a mission among Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, and Polish Lutherans. For want of a more fitting name, the already existing Estonian and...