# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1911_S271
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to the Pacific Ocean, and the Northwest of Canada. So much for orientation. —

A review of the work in this field during the past three years calls first of all for fervent thanks to God, who has also laid his divine blessing upon this work of our dear Synod. At every point in this great field where these missions have gained a foothold, the work has not merely been maintained but has expanded, and new fields have been added to the old ones, giving good grounds for hope — just as the workers, too, have become not fewer but more numerous. It is especially worth noting, and gratefully acknowledging, that we can report that God the Lord makes the hearts and hands of the dear Christians of our Synod willing precisely for these missions as well, so that the commission, ever since the state of these missions was laid out in the "Lutheraner" in the summer of 1908, has never had to complain of a want in its treasury, but has been able to meet all the legitimate claims of its missionaries — and that it was not a lack of money, but only a lack of suitable men, that kept it from taking up still more promising fields.

We now take the liberty of giving an overview of the various missions, arranged, for the sake of clarity, under the headings: Estonian and Latvian, Lithuanian, and Polish missions.

I. Estonian and Latvian Mission.

To the three missionaries who, at the convening of the last General Synod, stood in the service of this, the oldest of our foreign-language missions, a fourth has been added this past year, Pastor E. Yurawitz, from our theological seminary at St. Louis, who at present, to be sure, still stands in the service of the German mission in Wisconsin, but is expected to enter fully into the service of the Estonian and Latvian Mission this coming spring. He presently does mission work among his countrymen in Wisconsin and in Chicago, Ill. And Chicago in particular appears to be so large and promising a field that a missionary of its own should under all circumstances be stationed there. At the request of the commission, whose seat is too far from Chicago for the field there to be successfully overseen and supervised, Pastor L. Hölter of Chicago, in accordance with the wishes of the local pastoral conference, has agreed to take over temporary direction of the mission there, until a suitable man can be called to serve the congregation already existing there and do mission work in nearby places.

On the Atlantic coast, particularly in the large cities of Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore, as well as in many small places in between from Maine to Maryland, our oldest missionary, Pastor H. Rebane, labors successfully. A visitation journey through