# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1911_S263
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to ask for gifts. The cause of home missions suffers great harm, since the districts so badly in need of aid quite often fall into great distress and do not dare take up new, promising mission fields, because they lack the means and know full well that the General Mission Treasury can offer no support.

May God continue to bless his work in this so richly blessed and important mission!

With all due respect, signed,
The Commission for General Home Missions in North America:
C. F. Dietz.
Milwaukee, Wis., March 23, 1911.          Ed. Albrecht.
Aug. Kringel.

Report of the Commission for Home Missions Abroad.

As the Commission for Home Missions Abroad prepares to render to an Honorable Synod an account of the work entrusted to it during the past triennium, it would first like to point out that it has pleased God to transfer the chairman of this commission, Pastor Louis Lochner, who administered this office for ten years with great faithfulness and skill, from the church militant to the church triumphant, from labor to the rest that awaits God's people in heaven. On November 9, 1909, he fell blessedly asleep. In him our Synod has lost a longtime, faithful, and active member, and the work of missions in particular has lost a warm friend and promoter. May his memory remain among us in blessing! Since the Synod had made no provision for how such a gap in the commission should be filled, the commission, together with the Honorable General President, elected Pastor H. H. Succop for the vacant position.

Your commission can only encourage an Honorable Synod to joyful thanksgiving toward God, who in the past three years has so visibly advanced the work of this mission and crowned it with such rich blessing. This is especially true of the largest field entrusted to your commission's particular care; this is

1. The Mission in Brazil and Argentina.
a. Brazil.

About ten years ago Pastor W. Mahler entered this work as the first called missionary, by accepting the call of our first congregation in Brazil. Many indeed hoped that congregations would soon gather there around the Lutheran banner, but such success as now lies before our eyes is probably more than even the boldest dared to hope for.

[Signature at the foot of the page: "4" — a printer's sheet signature, not a folio.]