# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1911_S273
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starting point. There a well-organized Lithuanian congregation exists with its own church building. From this place the missionary makes his regular circuit through various towns of Connecticut, as well as to Boston, Mass.

It would be necessary for a further missionary to be appointed in this mission for western Pennsylvania and especially also for Chicago, where the field is ripe for harvest.

In the Lithuanian Mission, then, there presently stand two missionaries, who together serve six congregations and preaching stations with 680 souls.

III. Polish Mission.

Three years ago, when it was handed over to an Honorable Synod, the Polish Mission had one missionary in its service: Pastor C. Mikulski in Baltimore, Md. The small Polish congregation of Baltimore owns church property, which it acquired with the help of the German mission board there. A mortgage of $2000.00 still rests on this property, which, by resolution of the last synod, was to be taken over, where possible, by the General Church-Building Fund. The failure of the General Church-Building Fund to carry out this resolution has caused much correspondence and unpleasantness, and an Honorable Synod will probably receive a letter on this matter from the mortgage holder, the Augsburg Old People's Home Society of Baltimore, requesting the final execution of this resolution.

Through Pastor Mikulski's call away in 1909 to the newly founded Polish congregation in Detroit, Mich., Baltimore became vacant. After repeated calls it finally succeeded in finding, in Pastor W. Tober, a successor to Pastor Mikulski. Unfortunately, he was able to devote his full strength to the Polish Mission for only a very short time, since he could not bear the extensive travel. He accepted a call to the German city mission of Baltimore and limited his work in the Polish Mission to Baltimore. For the much larger territory — Philadelphia, Pa., Trenton, N. J., and New York — Pastor Sattelmeier of Scranton, Pa., has been called, and will take up his office there in April. The prospects for the Polish Mission are as favorable as could be imagined in these three populous cities, where the Poles number in the thousands. But here too the complaint is: "The workers are few!"

In the Polish Mission, once Pastor Sattelmeier has taken up his office, 3 missionaries will be at work, serving 6 congregations and preaching stations with a combined 566 souls. —

In connection with the foregoing, the commission takes the liberty of submitting to an Honorable Synod its treasurer's financial report for the period from April 3, 1908, to March 10, 1911. From this it appears that the receipts in this period (including the cash balance remaining on April 3, 1908, in the amount of