# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1911_S283
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missionary could have served, there was certainly a considerable
number of them.

Our Synod made the emigrant mission here its own as far back as
1872. Missouri, present first at the harbor of Baltimore, with its
wonderful possession of the pure Gospel of Him who came to seek and
to save what was lost, surely should not keep the lowest place with
its half-time missionary! But that can be avoided only by Missouri
having a full missionary here, and to that end setting not a half but
a corresponding full salary. We therefore repeat before the Reverend
Synod the earnest recommendation that it make its emigrant
missionary here a full-time emigrant missionary and assume
responsibility for his full salary.

We advise the Reverend Synod to refrain for the present from
erecting or acquiring a shelter, but recommend instead that it rather
authorize the commission, should the commission consider it advisable,
to purchase or build a dwelling for the missionary so that he can
occasionally take in individual persons. This last recommendation
(regarding a dwelling), however, holds only on condition that the
Reverend Synod places a full-time missionary in the work here and
assumes responsibility for his full salary.

Regulations for the Emigrant Mission Commission at Baltimore, Md.

§ 1. The Commission for Emigrant Mission in Baltimore shall
consist of six persons, three pastors and three laymen. These shall
serve six years each, in such a way that at each Delegate Synod three
members of the commission — two pastors and one layman, or
respectively two laymen and one pastor — are elected.

§ 2. The duties of this commission in general are to conduct the
mission among the emigrants in Baltimore and to oversee the work of
the missionary.

§ 3. The commission shall choose from its own number a chairman,
a secretary, the treasurer for the emigrant mission, and the auditor.

§ 4. Vacancies occurring in the commission are to be filled by the
commission itself, through the election of suitable persons, until the
next Delegate Synod.

§ 5. The Synod elects the missionary through the Emigrant Mission
Commission, which carries out the election after it has called for
candidates in the *Lutheraner*, published the list of candidates, and
given opportunity for any objections or recommendations — in other
words, in the same manner as the Synod elects its professors. The
salary is fixed by the commission and is met from the collections for
emigrant mission in Baltimore, as well as from the commission on
tickets sold and from the interest on a fund, held at a bank here,
belonging to the emigrant