# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1911_S110
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110 Proceedings of the 28th General or

...Prof. R. Pieper, and is therefore especially preparing himself for preaching in Finnish);

5. Since he is also proficient in German, he could take charge of the small German band of Lutherans in Bisbee and minister to them as well.

The Mission Society at Baltimore, Md., addressed the Synod with the following request:

The City Mission Society of the congregations belonging to the Evangelical Lutheran Synodical Conference in Baltimore and vicinity begs leave to express to the Venerable Synod the request that the Venerable Synod bring to execution its resolution concerning the property acquired for the Polish Christ congregation. In support of this request we refer to our correspondence with the General Church-Building Aid Fund, as well as to the report of the Commission for Foreign-Language Missions. While we are gladly willing to serve the Venerable Synod, or its mission commissions, in every way, we must nevertheless confess that the failure to carry out that resolution has caused us considerable inconvenience and has hindered our actual work. —

Resolutions:

1. That the Commission for Foreign-Language Missions at Home shall consist of five members, who reside in the center of the country;²)

2. That the Commission shall have authority to appoint subcommissions wherever necessary;³)

3. That the Commission be authorized, in conjunction with the General Presidium, to take over other foreign-language missions, provided all other preconditions for successfully conducting such a mission are present;

4. That the Commission be charged with seeing to it that the missionaries send young men to our institutions, so that future vacancies can be filled with suitable men who preach to the people in their mother tongue and give them spiritual care;

5. That the Commission establish a special fund for such students as are in need of assistance;

6. That all congregations be encouraged to also remember this fund for foreign-language missions generously with charitable gifts, since the demands upon it keep growing;

7. That the name "Commission for Foreign-Language Missions" be raised to the official title of this mission committee;

2) The nominations on the ballot already distributed had not taken the Commission's geographic distribution into account. This part of the ballot was therefore declared invalid and replaced by a later, corresponding election.

3) The Commission also gives the subcommissions the necessary instructions. (Minutes of May 18.)