# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1914_S100
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100 Proceedings of the 29th General or

judgment of this committee, with the approval of the General President, takes effect and becomes binding.

Your committee further recommends to the Reverend Synod that it resolve that the new Indian Mission Commission oversee and continue the Indian Mission to the best of its knowledge and conscience, and that it be given authority by the Synod to make the outlays necessary for the blessed continuation of the mission among the Indians.

Finally, your committee recommends to the Reverend Synod that it resolve that the committee elected by the Synod to investigate the state of affairs at the Indian mission station undertake that investigation as soon as possible.

Report adopted.

The vote on a slate of candidates, from which three belonging to the teaching estate and two to the lay estate are to form the investigating committee, produced the following result: Rev. W. Hagen 304 votes; Rev. H. Frincke 239; Director Theo. Bünger 264; Rev. W. Moll 132; Rev. Th. Kohn 140; Rev. F. Streufert 68. Mr. J. W. Böhne 302 votes; Mr. C. F. Wolf 222; Mr. W. Busse 177; Mr. F. Kosche 65.

Rev. Hagen was excused from serving on this committee after being elected to the General Board of Control.

The representatives of the Heathen Mission in the various districts are at the same time also the representatives of the Indian Mission in the individual districts.

c. Jewish Mission.

The following is reported from the Commission's report:

The work in our Jewish Mission in New York, since the last Delegate Synod in the year 1911 until the beginning of this year, has been a very strenuous, difficult, and yet blessed one.

1. The work was a very strenuous one. During this time the missionary held 155 sermons in the mission hall before 5,450 hearers; the highest number of hearers at a single service reached 90, fell to 4 to 6 during the height of the persecution, and has now risen again to 35 to 40. The Saturday school, attended by 40 to 50 children, and the Sunday school, attended by 15 to 20 children, closed in October 1912 as a result of the Jewish anti-mission league. This freed up all the more of the missionary's time for religious conversations in the homes where Jews gathered for this purpose, often behind closed doors. 1,122 such religious conversations took place in Jewish homes. In addition, the missionary made 1,354 house calls in Harlem, 319 in lower Manhattan, 41 in Brooklyn, and 79 in the Bronx. For the sake of private conversations, 1,474 persons came to see him in the mission hall and 419 persons at his residence. Distributed were