# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1911_S267
# AI translation — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

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It is especially gratifying and promising for the future that in this mission too the parish-school system is being so eagerly pursued and is flourishing so beautifully. We have two schools there with two teachers. But it is precisely the schools that are now causing us concern. London's school authority, the County Council, has, after an inspection, declared the current staffing of the school at Kentish Town with only one teacher to be insufficient and demands the hiring of a second teacher. At the request of our brothers there, the authority has declared itself willing to wait until the Delegate Synod, on the assumption that, once a second pastor has been called, Pastor Knippenberg would help out at the school for about two hours daily. The congregations have therefore sent in a call for a second pastor and ask an Honorable Synod to grant them one from among this year's candidates. "Should the requested help be refused us this time," the petition states, "our school at Kentish Town would thereby be endangered. The English school system has awakened, and the authority is pursuing its goals, especially in London, with great vigor." The second pastor is then also to help at the school in Tottenham.

At real and very great sacrifice, the congregations fully support the pastor and one teacher, and partly support the second teacher. The second pastor would for the present have to be salaried from the mission treasury. In the past three years, the commission spent $2341.76 for London. Unfortunately, the comparatively small gifts for this mission do not come in as they should, so that we have almost always had to struggle with want in this treasury.

3. New Zealand.

Four of our young men are presently at work here, and blessed in it. A traveling preacher is urgently needed. Pastors F. Hassold and C. Dierks, who served as missionaries, have both accepted calls to congregations there, but continue, as best they can, to also look after the mission stations until a missionary arrives. Already last year a call for this position was before the assignment commission and was even presented by it to a candidate, but was not accepted. If these stations, which have already been served for many years with great effort, are not to be abandoned, and if the souls there are not to be spiritually neglected, a missionary must be appointed. — In the large city of Auckland, Pastor F. Frese has stood for two years now, working with great diligence under very difficult circumstances at this lonely post, to bring souls to the Lord Jesus and gather them into a congregation of the Lutheran confession. He has to be supported almost entirely from the mission treasury. Unfortunately, this treasury is overlooked by many. But we must not forget these men! Our Christians surely have gifts for this mission too, if only their attention is drawn to it.