# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1914_S106
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106 Proceedings of the 29th General or

On the return voyage he became acquainted on the steamer with American, German, English, Swedish, Dutch, and Basel missionaries who are at work in India, China, Japan, Korea, the Philippines, Sumatra, Java, Australia, and Africa, and thus had the opportunity to become better acquainted with the working methods of other missions.

Our missionaries are encouraged to write small pamphlets about our mission, which are to appear in print gradually. The first of these booklets, written by missionary H. Nau, has already appeared under the title "Vanji Bhumi: Some Notes on Travancore and Its Inhabitants." Several other manuscripts are already in the Commission's hands and are to appear soon, God willing.

Before too long, further land purchases and larger new buildings will again become necessary. Moreover, the number of our mission workers has grown considerably and will, God willing, grow still further. It is therefore expected that about $38,000 to $42,000 annually will be required for our heathen mission.

Missionary Kellerbauer has been on home furlough since June 1913. He has been invited by the Commission to attend this Synod if possible. Missionary Nau has just begun his home furlough.

Your Commission takes the liberty of submitting the following recommendations to a Reverend Synod:

1. That the subcommittee be authorized to act as the executive in all routine business. Only on the following questions shall the vote of the out-of-town members be required: a) the election of a mission director; b) filling a vacancy on the commission; c) taking up a new mission field in India. In addition, the subcommittee shall be empowered to obtain the vote of the out-of-town members, or to call a plenary assembly, whenever it deems this necessary.

2. Since it is impossible for a pastor holding an office, or a professor at one of our educational institutions, to administer the office of mission director as it ought to be administered, given the mission's present extent, without neglecting his office as pastor of a congregation or as professor, the Commission recommends establishing a separate directorate for our heathen mission, similar to the one the Reverend Synodical Conference has established for the Negro Mission. The mission director should in that case reside wherever the subcommission has its seat.

3. Since the subcommission has grown larger, through the election of Rev. Barth, than the Synod originally provided for — it now numbers seven members instead of five — the Commission asks that the Reverend Synod approve this enlargement.