# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1911_S127
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13th Delegate Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States, 1911. 127

...India this month. Missionary A. Hübener will return to India in the course of this year; he will be present at the synodical convention. For Missionary Forster the Commission has found a replacement in candidate H. Stallmann, who completed our theological seminary in St. Louis last year. He will set out on the journey to India at about the time of the synodical convention.

Including candidate Stallmann, there are now 11 missionaries in the service of our Heathen Mission, of whom two are on furlough and a third has, it is hoped, left India only for a short time.

We have particular cause for thanks to God that the love of our Christians has, over these three years, supplied everything needed for the continuation and expansion of our work. The necessary construction of a second missionary's residence in Ambur and in Nagercoil used up the reserve — already considerably reduced — that still existed in the mission treasury three years ago, and at the end of the second-to-last fiscal year the treasury showed a deficit, small though it was. But although a second dwelling house also had to be built in Nagercoil and two new missionaries were sent out, the Commission nevertheless always had the necessary funds at its disposal.

Two changes have taken place in the Commission's personnel. In place of Mr. H. Harms, who died in 1909, Mr. Gottlieb Schmidt has been elected. Through the death of Pastor O. Hanser, the Heathen Mission has lost what may fairly be called its warmest-hearted representative, a loss we deeply regret. Prof. W. Dau has taken his place.

With the most heartfelt thanks to God for all the furtherance our mission has experienced in the past three years, the Commission joins the cordial request to all our dear Christians that they continue to take up this work of God with eager zeal.

Two matters remain to be put before the Synod. Our mission in India was begun in 1894, and in the course of this time the need has become clear that a visitor now be sent there, partly to become acquainted with conditions as they now stand, and partly to enter into personal contact with the missionaries and their work. The Reverend Synod is therefore asked to resolve on this visitation.

Nearly all mission societies nowadays employ mission doctors, whose services benefit above all the heathen population. Although such aid is not directly the task of the mission, it cannot be denied that it provides a shining example of Christian charity and furthers the spread of the Gospel. We too have already been urged more than once to take up this work of charity. The Commission, however, cannot consider itself authorized to take steps toward introducing this kind of mission activity, and therefore asks the