# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1911_S126
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126 Proceedings of the 28th General or

5. that the Commission be authorized to erect a chapel in Morgan, should the use of the government school be withdrawn from us.

The District Representatives of Foreign Missions are charged to work in their respective districts on behalf of the Indian Mission in North America as well.

B. Abroad.

The Commission had submitted the following report to the Synod:

The progress of our mission work in India has, thank God, been quite gratifying over the past three years. On our four older stations the number of native Christians has more than doubled: 127 instead of 59. In our southern territory, to which we were called four years ago by a small Christian congregation not connected with any mission — where the work accordingly took a different shape from the outset than in the still wholly heathen territory taken up 17 years ago — we count 223 baptized Christians in 9 different places in the vicinity of the city of Nagercoil; a considerable number of catechumens are also currently under instruction there.

The training school for teachers begun three years ago by Missionary Kellerbauer in Barugur has not, to be sure, achieved the desired success of seeing the young men trained there as teachers, suited to local conditions, become Christians; but four of the five trainees now serve as teachers in our schools, and, having been trained by us, they are nevertheless far preferable to other heathen teachers. Likewise the Christian teachers trained by our missionaries in Nagercoil render good service, and it is especially gratifying that they are able to give religious instruction in the schools there, which are attended for the most part by children of Christians. In all our schools in both territories, more than 900 pupils are now being made acquainted with the saving truth; by far the greater number of these are in our northern territory. The total number of our Christians is 350.

Since 1908, three missionaries have joined those already at work: G. Hübener, a brother of Missionary A. Hübener, F. R. Zucker, and G. Küchle. The first was sent out in 1909, the latter two in the course of last year. The two first named are currently in Nagercoil, Küchle in Krishnagiri. It is very much to be regretted that Missionary Forster, owing to his wife's continuing illness, has felt compelled to leave the mission service. A second loss threatens us in that Missionary Mohn, because of his child's serious illness and his wife's poor health, had to travel to Europe on the urgent advice of physicians. It is presently still uncertain whether he will be able to return to India. Missionary Naumann had to be granted furlough in Europe; he will leave India