# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1914_S104
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104 Proceedings of the 29th General or

Unfortunately, despite all effort, we have so far not succeeded in finding a manager and teacher for the Bergheim [Mountain Home].

Soon after the last Delegate Synod, your Commission repeatedly received the request to call into being yet a second heathen mission, specifically in the great heathen land of China. After careful, repeated deliberation, it declined the request, chiefly for two reasons. First, it held that we should concentrate all our strength on our mission field in India, which already consists of two areas separated from one another by several hundred miles, and should use there all the men and means that God gives us for the heathen mission. But above all, your Commission was convinced that founding a new heathen mission in an entirely different heathen land was a matter of such far-reaching significance that it would not be entitled to take such a step without first submitting the matter to the General Synod. In the meantime, the new heathen mission has, as is known, been undertaken by a private society, and it is for the Reverend Synod to judge your Commission's course of action and to take the necessary steps, should it wish to make this mission a synodical matter, if the matter comes before it.

Since the last Synod the following changes have occurred in the Commission: Rev. Prof. F. Zucker, who has served our mission with great love, foresight, and faithfulness as mission director since its founding, found himself compelled by his age to lay down the directorship. His reasons were so weighty that the Commission, though with a heavy heart, had to accept the resignation. It would like hereby once more to thank him publicly and cordially for the faithful services he rendered to the mission over these many years. In Rev. Prof. Zucker's place, Rev. Jul. A. Friedrich was elected director. — Since the Commission's previous secretary, Rev. Prof. L. Fürbringer, was so overloaded with work that he could no longer administer this office, the Commission chose Rev. G. Chr. Barth as a member of the Commission and transferred the office of secretary to him. — Rev. C. M. Zorn, who had served as a faithful member of the Commission since the mission's founding, withdrew from the Commission in 1913, since his advanced age made traveling and writing very difficult for him. The Commission hopes, however, that Rev. Zorn will continue to serve it in the future with his counsel in the friendliest way. To Rev. Zorn, too, the Commission's cordial thanks are hereby expressed for his valuable services.

The visitation of our mission in India resolved on by the last Delegate Synod was carried out in 1912/13 by the mission director. He visited the South Field, the Bergheim, and the North Field. He saw all our stations and work posts except for four schools of missionary Mohns, which were closed on account of the cholera then prevailing. He has become convinced that all our missionaries