# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1914_S76
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76 Proceedings of the 29th General or

[continued from the previous page] ...at the main gateway to America for as long as it pleases God. We now enjoy, after all, a great measure of the immigration authorities' trust, and our Lutheran Pilgrim House is at present the only German emigrant home in the city of New York still standing alongside the Hungarian, Swedish, and Norwegian and other emigrant houses. The German Home of the General Council has been closed for about four months.

Although we hold that the importance of our work in the Emigrant Mission and the Pilgrim House should be sufficiently known to everyone, and although we think that for this reason such a request is almost unnecessary, we nevertheless take the liberty of asking our dear pastors and teachers, the dear delegates of our congregations, and all other friends of the Emigrant Mission to support this work as vigorously as possible in word and deed. To make it possible for the missionary to seek out and find those recommended to him on Ellis Island, the missionary's address should be sent in good time to those who wish to make use of his help; at the same time, notice of this should be given to the missionary, and indeed the entire arrangement of travel for such persons — the issuing of steamship tickets and so on — should be placed in the missionary's hands.

From the outposts in Germany, Bremen and Hamburg, fine, gratifying reports keep coming in. Both Mr. F. Gillhoff and Mr. P. Löffler carry out their blessed work faithfully and conscientiously. Let us rejoice that we have found such co-workers! Unfortunately, the gifts for our mission are not sufficient to cover the salaries of the missionaries in New York, Bremen, and Hamburg; every year a substantial subsidy from the Synod treasury has had to make up the shortfall. Would that all congregations, for Christ's sake, also remembered the Emigrant Mission every year with a gift! Then we would not only have no difficulty paying the salaries, but without doubt something would also be left over to help poor, destitute travelers.

We further take the liberty of directing the Synod's attention to the work that our Pilgrim House performs every year in the Synod's interest.

1. The transportation of candidates for the ministry and missionaries going abroad. All work connected with this — baggage transfers, consular business — is handled free of charge. Candidates and missionaries traveling abroad are given free lodging at the Pilgrim House.

2. The shipping of crates bound for India containing gifts for the Christmas festival. These shipments have for years gone free of charge as far as the nearest Indian port.

3. The free transfer of the salaries of pastors and professors bound for Brazil, and of book shipments from the Concordia Publishing House.