# Synodical Conference Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1875_S34
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Since in the discussion of the committee's report the need of an English Bible history emerged, and the Bible history prepared after Zahn and published in St. Louis was generally recognized as the most suitable, the faculty at Columbus, Ohio, was charged by a unanimous resolution with the English translation of this book.

Mission among the Chinese in St. Louis.

The report of the mission committee at St. Louis appointed by the Synodical Conference [*Synodalconferenz*], together with a report and written works of the missionary Mr. C. Vogel in the Chinese language, were handed over to a committee for reporting. According to the report of the mission committee, the missionary's activity is limited to this, that he, as before, visits the Chinese in their workshops and dwellings and brings the Word of God near to them by reading and reciting. He could not induce them to a gathering in a readily offered place. Among other things they do not want to be regarded as people among whom mission work is being done. Individuals have visited him in his dwelling, mostly in the evenings. In addition, his work has been: the study of the Chinese language, the instruction of students of theology who some day wish to devote themselves to the mission among the Chinese, and the repeated copying and improvement of the Lutheran Catechism in the Chinese language. The income for this mission since its beginning from the Synodical Conference, chiefly from the Missouri Synod, amounts to $292.28, the expenditure for the missionary's salary $550.00. The deficit has been covered from the mission treasury of the Missouri Synod.

The Synodical Conference declared that it gratefully acknowledges the zeal of the mission committee and of the missionary and would gladly support the Chinese mission begun in St. Louis more strongly than has been done so far, if in the course of the deliberation doubts had not arisen, which could not be removed from it, whether the so difficult mission in St. Louis, with the small and changing Chinese population there and with the forces at its disposal, given the infirmity and advanced age of the missionary, could be carried on with success. Therefore the Conference had to declare, even if with a heavy heart, that it, as such, could find no willingness to promise further support of the mission among the Chinese in St. Louis, and resolved to communicate the result of this discussion to the mission committee in St. Louis as the answer to its report.

Evangelical Lutheran Concordia Synod of Virginia.

Since this synod had applied for admission at the last assembly of the Synodical Conference, the delegates had been charged to report this to their respective synods so that they might decide on it. On inquiry it turned out that the synods of Illinois, Minnesota, Missouri, Wisconsin and the Norwegian Synod had given their consent to the admission of the Concordia Synod. The Honorable Synod of Ohio had adopted no resolution on it because it had not been able to inspect the relevant documents of the Concordia Synod. The sending of these documents had been delayed by unforeseen circumstances.