# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1911_S262
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of our Synod will increase their gift to the synodical treasury once they can convince themselves that the training of pastors and teachers is not merely the duty of individual Christians, but of the whole church.

Should the Synod, however, find that it cannot cover the three items mentioned above, we ask that at least part of these expenses be taken off our hands.

With due respect, signed on behalf of the Professors' Conference,
M. J. F. Albrecht.

Report of the Commission for General Home Missions in North America.

From the treasury for General Home Missions in North America, the sum of $36,579.00 was paid out from October 1908 to April 1911 by order of the commission, through the treasurer of the General Synod. Of this sum, the Canada District received $800.00, the California and Nevada District $6910.00, the Minnesota and Dakota District $5735.00, the Southern District $9700.00, the Texas District $5650.00, and the Washington and Oregon District $7777.00; total: $36,579.00.

The sum requested by the above-named districts was $62,514.00, so that $25,935.00 was lacking to provide the needed help. Even the sum of $36,579.00 was not on hand, so that the commission, in order to relieve the very greatest need, had to borrow from other treasuries, and on March 3 still had a debt of $2841.56.

In this triennium too, the quarterly distribution often could not take place, since there was nothing in the treasury. Only once could all requests be satisfied, because, by God's grace, a fellow believer gave our treasury the sum of $5000.00. As a result of all the districts' eager and blessed labor in the work of home missions, there was in almost all the district treasuries no "surplus" available, and so the General Mission Treasury remained empty. In response to our repeated inquiries, the mission commissions reported that they had nothing left over. In November of last year we found ourselves compelled to send an appeal to all pastors and to ask for a "special gift" for our treasury.

We urgently ask the Honorable Synod to discuss the matter of the General Home Mission Treasury thoroughly and to find ways and means of relieving the distress of this treasury. At the very least, the commission should be given the right to make the treasury's emergency known at the appropriate time in the "Lutheraner" and to