# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1914_S79
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14th Delegate Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States, 1914. 79

Received at the harbor: 173 persons in 1911, 207 in 1912, 176 in 1913. Escorted to the harbor: 30 persons in 1911, 46 in 1912, 36 in 1913. Picked up from the train station: 43 persons in 1911, 39 in 1912, 29 in 1913. Escorted to the train station: 72 persons in 1911, 95 in 1912, 33 in 1913. Escorted to a hotel: 64 persons in 1911, 81 in 1912, 37 in 1913.

Visited in the Detention House and in hospitals: 260 persons in 1911, 454 in 1912, 528 in 1913. — Detainees released through our missionary's efforts: 54 in 1911, 59 in 1912, 53 in 1913.

Tickets sold: 208 in 1911, 324½ in 1912, 291 in 1913.

Directed to our congregations: 1,046 immigrants in 1911, 1,324 in 1912, 1,483 in 1913. Our missionary believes that of these immigrants, about 1,000 today belong to congregations of the Reverend Synod.

In carrying out his duties, the missionary traveled 1,630 miles in 1911, 1,864 in 1912, and (including the trip to Canada) 4,344 miles in 1913.

The Commission meets every quarter to discuss the work of the local Emigrant Mission with the missionary, to receive his report, and to make the necessary decisions.

In the service of emigrant mission work in Baltimore, the Evangelicals [Lutherans] have 1 missionary (besides an Emigrant Seamen's Home and a Pilgrim House), the Methodists 2, the Baptists 3, the Presbyterians 3, the Y.M.C.A. 1, the temperance advocates 1, and Rome 3 missionaries.

The zeal of Rome and the sects shows, after all, that Baltimore must be an important field for emigrant mission work, and how earnestly Missouri — which, with its wonderful possession of the pure Gospel of him who came to seek and to save what was lost, made a beginning with the Emigrant Mission at the port of Baltimore — should be intent on raising up and extending this work of blessing that began so early and has grown so extensive. This is also evident from the fact that the relevant committee has recommended to Congress an appropriation of $660,000 for the construction of a new immigration station and the preparation of a new landing place. It may also be mentioned that, against the average of 36 steamers that landed annually in Baltimore in the period from 1908 to 1912, the year 1913 recorded 52 steamers. This number, too, will be significantly increased in the future by the Hamburg-America Line having ships call at Baltimore.