# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1911_S114
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114 Proceedings of the 28th General or

...Lord of the Church, through a blessed death, removed into the kingdom of glory. Of the five candidates currently traveling to South America, two, Rüsch and Schröder, will take over the two vacant posts in Argentina. But here too we must cry out: "What is that among so many" — so many who live and die there without God's Word?

The mission in these two countries has, in this triennium, consumed the sum of $44,218.42. To be sure, a large sum of money — but the Lord has provided it. Admittedly, at times things looked bleak for the treasury; it was empty, indeed more than empty; it had debts, and salaries were due. But that is simply God's way. All the gold and silver of the earth belong to him. He could, if he wished, furnish our treasuries with money to spare. But he keeps us on short rations, no doubt partly in order to keep us at prayer. Again and again he has made the hearts of his Christians willing and filled their hands, so that debts could be paid and the missionaries provided with what they needed for their livelihood. God has also given the Synod a treasurer who understands the art of paying out money even when the treasury is empty. May the Venerable Synod once again recommend to the congregations that they remember, with gifts and collections, the treasury for the mission in Brazil and Argentina, which needs at least $12,000.00 a year!

Not all of the money was actually used for the mission in these countries. Of the $44,218.42, $5150.00 was spent on the institution at Porto Alegre.

How great the shortage of workers is in this field, and how urgently necessary this institution therefore is, is shown by the fact that while 22 names stand on its roll of students, only eleven students are actually present at the institution — only fifty percent. The other half of the student body must, after attending the institution for one year, at most two, perform auxiliary service at endangered schools, in congregations that have so far waited in vain for pastors.

Prof. E. Wegehaupt, the director of this institution, has appeared at the Synod as the representative of the Brazilian District. We would ask that he be given the opportunity to speak before the assembled Synod about the institution, as well as about the mission in Brazil.

Mr. E. Böckel, who had been engaged by the Synod as a teacher, laid down his office at the end of last year. In his place the Synod's electoral college has chosen Pastor M. F. Frosch.

Before the previous General Synod there lay the Brazilian District's petition that it take over the institution at Porto Alegre. The Synod passed several resolutions on this, which the then Präses [president] Mahler, who was present at the Synod, and your Commission as well, understood to mean that this institution should henceforth be cared for just like the Synod's other institutions — namely, that the funds for its upkeep should be taken from the synodical treasury. The synodical...