# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1911_S265
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Lord of the church by a blessed death to the kingdom of glory. Of the five candidates presently on their way to South America, two, Rüsch and Schröder, will take over the two vacant positions 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 consumed, in this triennium, the sum of $44,218.42. Certainly a large sum of money; but the Lord has provided it. To be sure, at times things looked bleak with the treasury; it was empty, indeed more than empty; it had debts, and salaries were overdue. But that is, after all, God's way. All the gold and silver of the earth belongs to him. He could, if he wished, supply our treasuries with money to spare. But he keeps us on short rations, no doubt for this reason too, to keep us at prayer. He has also, again and again, made the hearts of his Christians willing and filled their hands, so that the debts could be paid and the missionaries could be given what they needed for their livelihood. God has also given the Synod a treasurer who understands the trick of paying out money even when the treasury is empty. May an Honorable Synod recommend anew to the congregations that they remember with gifts and collections the treasury for missions in Brazil and Argentina, which needs at least $12,000.00 a year!

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

c. the institution at Porto Alegre.

How great the need for workers is in this field, and how urgently necessary this institution therefore is, is shown by the fact that 22 names stand on its student list, but only eleven students are actually at the institution — only fifty percent. The other half of the student body must, after one, or at most two, years' attendance at the institution, render relief service at endangered schools, in congregations that have so far waited in vain for pastors.

Professor E. Wegehaupt, the director of this institution, has appeared at the Synod as a 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 employed 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 elected Pastor M. F. Frosch.

The previous General Synod had before it the petition of the Brazilian District to take over the institution at Porto Alegre. The Synod passed several resolutions on this, which the then-president Mahler, who attended the Synod, and also your commission, understood to mean that henceforth this institution should be cared for just as the Synod's other institutions are — namely, that the funds for its maintenance should be taken from the synodical treasury. The synodical