# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1911_S266
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treasurer interpreted the resolutions differently. Nothing was left for your commission but to take the funds for this institution too from the mission treasury. We ask, however, that an Honorable Synod determine to pay the professors' salaries, the rent for the institution, and for the professors' housing out of the synodical treasury. The Synod elects the professors and sets the amount of the salaries and the rent, as with the other institutions; it should therefore provide for this one in the same way it does for the others.

The arrangement of the previous Delegate Synod, "that in every synodical district a representative be appointed to speak on the mission in Brazil at the district convention," has proven itself good, and we ask an Honorable Synod to appoint such representatives at its present session as well.

Finally, we would like to point to the "Ev. Luth. Kirchenblatt für Südamerika" [Ev. Lutheran Church Paper for South America], published by the "Ev. Luth. Pastoralkonferenz" [Ev. Lutheran Pastoral Conference] in the state of Rio Grande do Sul. It appears twice a month and can be ordered from the Concordia Publishing House. Price per year: $1.00. Whoever subscribes to this paper not only receives regular news from that great mission field, but also thereby supports the work there.

The reason some are not quite enthusiastic about this mission is chiefly this: it is thought that the people there are content to have God's Word preached to them, but ask nothing further of it — as shown by the fact that they themselves contribute nothing. To this it must be answered: 1. that the people served there with Word and Sacrament are for the most part poor in earthly goods; 2. that only the Word of God itself can create a hunger and longing for it and make hearts willing to give, and that Word has so far been preached there only sparingly; 3. that, even so, the fruit of the Gospel is already showing itself in this respect. From the congregations there, the following has come in for the salaries of the teachers and pastors: in the year 1908, $2679.12; in the year 1909, $3728.36; in the year 1910, $4285.77. This shows a noticeable improvement and gives hope that, once the good seed is sown more abundantly, a richer harvest will follow here too, and that we will one day have a self-supporting church body there.

2. London.

On the occasion of the previous Synod, a very detailed report was given on the mission in this greatest of world cities; we therefore permit ourselves to be brief this time.

Pastor B. Poch, who for years diligently carried on the Lord's work in this giant city, has followed a call to the congregation at Grand Rapids, Mich. As his successor, the two congregations there called Pastor K. Knippenberg of Flensburg, Germany, who accepted the call and is now laboring in this part of God's vineyard under God's visible blessing.