# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1914_S89 # AI translation — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration) 14th Delegate Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States, 1914. 89 Our foreign-language missionaries, too, are mindful of the Christian education of children. They know that the Christian parish school is of immeasurable value to the flourishing of the mission. To the question, "How should congregations with a larger number of children be helped to a parish school?" your committee answers: In our judgment, the Synod should give the foreign-language mission commission the right and authority to place, wherever possible, a male teacher in such congregations, and, if one cannot be had, a female teacher. Your committee takes the liberty of directing the Reverend Synod's attention to page 68 of the petitions. There it is stated: "In the foreign-language mission there is a lack of genuinely Lutheran literature. Your commission asks whether the Faculty at Springfield might not be appointed by the Synod as a commission to see to the needed foreign-language literature." Your committee recommends this to the Reverend Synod. Finally, since the foreign-language mission is not yet as well known as it should be, your committee considers it important that the statistics of the foreign-language missions from the past triennium also be included in the Synodal-Bericht. — The committee's recommendations were raised to resolutions, with the exception of the sections marked *) and †). *) The proposal concerning a Latvian Mission on the Pacific coast was tabled at the afternoon session of May 12, until the Synod should have acted on an Emigrant Mission on the Pacific coast. At the afternoon session of May 13, the section concerning the union of the Latvian Mission with the Emigrant Mission on the Pacific coast was struck. †) In place of this section it was resolved, in substance, that our congregations should also remember this mission with their gifts. Briefly Summarized Statistics of the Foreign-Language Missions. From June 1911 to March 1914. Congregations | Preaching Stations | Souls | Communicants | Voting Members | Services Held | Hearers | Average | Baptized | Confirmed | Communed | Married | Buried | Income | Expenditure | Received from the Commission Estonian Mission ... 3 | 14 | 768 | 517 | 80 | 131 | 3066 | 23 | 25 | 10 | 244 | 6 | 5 | $ 402.03 | $ 389.99 | $1059.91 Latvian Mission .... 8 | 49 | 1159 | 788 | 164 | 432 | 23094 | 53 | 100 | 37 | 1316 | 32 | 21 | 1903.76 | 1822.06 | 4248.42 Polish Mission ..... 5 | 15 | 790 | 274 | 121 | 438 | 16412 | 37 | 102 | 12 | 1397 | 20 | 11 | 2642.73 | 799.66 | 4027.05 Lithuanian Mission.. 5 | 7 | 1065 | 589 | 123 | 590 | 21031 | 36 | 103 | 8 | 1437 | 54 | 35 | 2040.85 | 620.10 | 3780.57 Finnish Mission .... 6 | 3 | 500 | 183 | 70 | 99 | 2323 | 23 | 22 | — | 28 | 2 | 3 | 218.39 | 168.60 | 1291.85 Persian Mission .... — | 6 | 45 | — | — | 134 | 3541 | 26 | 1 | — | 2 | 6 | — | 216.32 | 163.18 | 1711.86 Slovak Mission ..... 1 | 3 | 159 | 41 | 17 | 95 | 6408 | 67 | 20 | 5 | 219 | 3 | 2 | 387.50 | 42.60 | 670.10 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 28 | 97 | 4486 | 2392 | 575 | 1919 | 75875 | 39 | 373 | 72 | 4643 | 123 | 80 | $7811.58 | $4006.19 | $16789.76 Commission's expenses: postage, printed matter, visitation trips, etc. 244.55 Loan repaid .................................................................. 400.00 ---------- $17434.31 [PRINTED-ERROR: the "Buried" column comes to 5 + 21 + 11 + 35 + 3 + — + 2 = 77, while the totals row prints 80. Every individual figure was re-read at 500 ppi and stands; the neighbouring "Married" column (6 + 32 + 20 + 54 + 2 + 6 + 3 = 123) agrees exactly with its printed total, as do all thirteen other columns. The error is the printer’s; kept as printed.]