# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1914_S75
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14th Delegate Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States, 1914. 75

Mission School Funds.
Committee Report.

With regard to Petition 42, p. 116, concerning the establishment of a mission-school fund, we recommend resolving that the founding and support of mission schools, too, must remain the concern of the individual districts, and that the establishment of a new fund is therefore not necessary.

This recommendation was raised to a resolution.

Chaplains for Army and Navy.

A petition not printed in the Synod's pamphlet had come in from the Philadelphia Pastoral Conference concerning the appointment of chaplains for our army and navy.

Committee 6 recommended that the Reverend Synod charge the Commission for General Inner Mission with determining, by means of a general appeal, how many of our congregation members are serving in the army and navy, and then acting according to the findings.

The recommendation was raised to a resolution.

b. Emigrant Missions.

Emigrant Mission in New York.

From the Commission's report, the following is reported:

Since the annual reports on the Emigrant Mission at the port of New York were published in the *Lutheraner* [the Synod's German-language church paper], everyone had the opportunity to form a picture of the mission's necessity, difficulty, and success. Only a brief overview of what has happened in the last three years shall be given here.

The number of persons received and forwarded on upon their arrival in New York was 6,210. For the reception and onward travel of these persons, $435,822.80 was received. 17,454 letters, cards, and telegrams were received, and 14,380 letters, cards, and telegrams were sent out. 606 persons were provided with work and earnings. Advances amounted to $9,023.74; of this, $8,976.56 was repaid, and $47.18 is still outstanding. For the poor and for charitable purposes, 1,626 meals, 822 nights' lodging, and $441.78 in cash were expended.

The work of our missionary remains altogether necessary and richly blessed. His work, as the figures given above attest, has become known and gratefully acknowledged in the widest circles, and his counsel and assistance were sought ever more often, so that he had more than enough work. The stream of immigration will presumably never dry up in the future either. As long, therefore, as our Synod can still serve immigrants, it should faithfully maintain its Emigrant Mission and the position it has once gained—