# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1914_S86
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86 Proceedings of the 29th General or

[continued from the previous page] ...large; the work exceeds his strength. Your committee therefore takes the liberty of proposing to the Reverend Synod that it permit the foreign-language mission commission to look for a second Finnish missionary and place him alongside Pastor Klemmer.

Latvian Mission.

Our Synod also carries on mission work among the Latvian Christians in the United States and in Canada. The late Pastor Rebane was also active in this mission. On the Pacific coast, the faithful old missionary J. Ballod labored with self-sacrifice and fidelity until last fall. Then dear God bade him rest from his labor. He died in joyful faith in his Savior. Since we now have no missionary in this field, but a fine group of Latvian Christians is already found there, and since ever more Latvians are immigrating from abroad and landing in San Francisco, and since the Synod will presumably take up the Emigrant Mission in San Francisco, your committee recommends to the Reverend Synod that, on the Pacific coast, the Latvian Mission be carried on for the time being in connection with the Emigrant Mission.*) (See *) p. 89.)

Since the former Latvian missionary, Pastor Sillak, is no longer active in our Synod's Latvian Mission, but a number of Lutheran Latvian Christians live in Canada unprovided for, your committee further recommends that the Synod ask the foreign-language mission commission to see to it that those Christians — who, admittedly, live widely scattered from one another — be served here and there with God's Word, and that it appoint a Latvian missionary in Canada as soon as feasible.

The Latvian congregation in Boston has until now been permitted to hold its services in the German *Dreieinigkeitskirche* [Trinity Church]. But since that congregation can no longer grant this going forward, the Latvian congregation finds itself compelled to erect a house of worship. The lot is already in hand, but they cannot raise the money needed to build the new church on their own. They therefore ask the Synod for collections. Your committee recommends: 1. that this be permitted and the congregation be encouraged to appeal to all congregations for collections; 2. that these funds, however, pass through the General Church Building Fund and be extended to the Boston congregation as an interest-free loan.

Polish Mission.

Whereas up until shortly before the last Delegate Synod two missionaries were active in the Polish Mission, there were four in the triennium just concluded. This mission, too, was able to bear fine fruit.

In the far north, in the province of Manitoba, Canada, Pastor B. Hein stands in blessed activity in the service of the Polish Mission. He serves—