# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1914_S101
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14th Delegate Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States, 1914. 101

4,117 Jewish tracts, 844 New Testaments, and 24 Bibles. To prepare for baptism, the missionary gave individual persons 124 hours of religious instruction. One adult was baptized and is now a member of Immanuel congregation in New York. In the mission's interest the missionary preached four times in other congregations. He held out bravely in his mission hall when it was besieged by raging Jews.

2. The work was a very difficult one. The influx our mission enjoyed caused great excitement among the Jews. They formed a large anti-mission league out of synagogues and associations, in order to destroy our mission and other Christian missions to Israel. They announced their plan in the Jewish daily papers and warned people by name against our missionary. They sent bands of young people from their associations in front of our mission hall to hand out printed warnings against our mission and to hold back those who wanted to enter. They visited the parents of the children who came to our mission school and threatened them with loss of employment. They disrupted the worship services, smashed property, and even endangered life itself. In doing so they showed a persistence, in the height of summer heat as much as in the harshest winter cold, that can only be explained by their hatred of the crucified Savior. At first the police protection we requested proved inadequate. When troublemakers were arrested by police officers, crowds of Jews would show up at the night court, bringing their rabbi and lawyers along, and the intimidated visitors to our mission did not dare come forward as witnesses. If someone was sentenced to a fine, it was paid by the league, and the Jews shouted after our missionary that hundreds of thousands of Jews stood behind them and hundreds of thousands of dollars were at their disposal, so that our mission would and must go under. Finally better police protection was obtained. The matter was laid before the pastoral conferences. Because pastors visited the mission services with members of their congregations, it became visible that representatives of our Synod, too, stood behind our missionary. The judges grew stricter, and the enemies of our mission are no longer allowed to stand in front of the door of our mission hall. This also encouraged the visitors to our mission; they no longer put up with everything, but indignantly turn away the members of the league, begin to bear witness against their lawless conduct, and present themselves again in ever greater numbers. But the last few years were evil years for our missionary, difficult times, no less for your Commission.

3. The work was a blessed one. Other missions here have perished because of the Jewish anti-mission league; ours still stands by God's grace and has emerged victorious from the persecution. The visitors to our mission have, through our missionary's testimony, come so far that they, through the anti-mission