# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1914_S87
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14th Delegate Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States, 1914. 87

[continued from the previous page] ...three congregations. To be able to reach one of his branch congregations, he has until now had to have his people pick him up and drive him back. That cannot go on indefinitely. He therefore asks for an outfit. Your committee recommends that, since Pastor B. Hein needs a horse to serve a German congregation, $150 be given to him from the General Inner Mission Treasury for an outfit.

The congregation at Baltimore has church property on which a mortgage of $2,000 has long rested. Through special effort it has been able to pay down $150 of this debt. The mortgage in the amount of $1,850 rested on the property of the City Mission Society, which had at the time borrowed this money for the Polish church. This Society asks the Synod finally to take this mortgage off its hands, as the Synod already resolved six years ago and again three years ago. We advise that the Synod purchase the property of the Polish congregation in Baltimore for a nominal price and assume the mortgage resting on it, and that, should the Augsburg Society [*Augsburgverein*] be unwilling to let the money stand any longer, the $1,850 be paid out to it from the General Church Building Fund. The Polish congregation, however, is to be required to repay the money gradually. As soon as it has repaid the entire sum, the deed shall be issued to it.

Lithuanian Mission.

It is with deep sorrow that we record that a capable, godly young missionary, Pastor P. Drignat, was torn from blessed work by an early death after years of suffering. His field in Connecticut has since been vacant and is being served, as a stopgap, by Pastor H. Brustat. Although Pastor Geo. Matzat has followed a call into the Lithuanian Mission in the East, the Connecticut field is still vacant. Your committee recommends that the Synod ask the foreign-language mission commission to look for a preacher proficient in the Lithuanian language and, if it finds one, to place him alongside the other.

Persian Mission.

In 1911 the Synod, by resolution, made the Persian Mission, as it then rightly existed, its own. John Pasha was the missionary who had taken up the mission among his countrymen in the East. He was not to labor long, however. Already in that same year he was called home by the Lord. His son, Phil. Pasha, succeeded him in the Persian Mission. But he too soon had to lay down his office on account of illness. He is now living in the country. Since, according to the petition, this concerns support for the widow of the deceased Pasha, your committee recommends to the Reverend Synod that the matter be left to the Support Commission of the Atlantic District to settle.