# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1914_S154
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154 Proceedings of the 29th General or

missions as needed. Under this arrangement, special gifts and
bequests could of course still be designated by the givers for
particular missions. Besides distributing the money, the General
Mission Commission would also have overall direction of all missions;
it could do this all the better if the director of the Heathen Mission
were placed at its head and thereby became director of our whole
mission enterprise; then we would have a unified leadership.

[If this consolidation of all the mission treasuries into one should
not find favor, should not at least several treasuries be combined,
along something like these lines:

a. Home Mission in North America, including also the
foreign-language missions, the Deaf-Mute Mission, and the Jewish
Mission.

b. Home Mission Abroad, comprising South America, Cuba,
Australia, New Zealand, the European Free Church, London, and whatever
mission abroad may still be founded in the future.

c. Heathen Mission, to which the Indian Mission would also be
reckoned.

d. Negro Mission. The gifts for this, too, should definitely
pass through the hands of our General Treasurer. That we carry on this
mission jointly with the whole Synodical Conference can be no hindrance
to that whatsoever.

e. Emigrant Mission: New York, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and
whatever may still be founded.]

3. Church Building Fund: a. of the General Synod, b. of the
District. Through this fund should pass all gifts and interest-free
loans that are collected for congregations in need of help. Requests
for help, whether for gifts or for loans, should in no case be sent
directly to the congregations, but to the commission — to the General
Commission, when help is sought from the whole Synod, and to the
District's commission, when only the district is to help.

4. Relief Fund: a. of the General Synod, b. of the District. All
gifts without a more specific designation of their purpose would be
used, as before, to support sick and infirm pastors and teachers, as
well as the poor widows and orphans of deceased pastors and teachers.
But all money for those in distress or misfortune — whether individual
persons or whole congregations and communities — would also pass
through this fund. If more were collected for a particular case than
needed, the surplus would remain in the fund for a future case, making
prompt help possible then.

5. Student Fund: a. of the General Synod, b. of the District. All
gifts for students should in every case — even when they are from the
outset designated for the General Student Fund —