# Synodical Conference Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1890_S64
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64 Statistics of the Ev. Luth. Synodical Conference. 1888 and 1889.
[Landscape table; running head and folio printed upright at the head of the page.]

[Continuation of Table XI from page 63]

[Row heading] | Year | Synod household fund | Building fund | Support fund | Educational institutions fund | Charitable institutions fund | Mission fund | [column without heading]

Missouri Synod:
Wisconsin District | 1888 | $ 2778.76 | $ 1588.58 | $ 909.39 | $ 1639.94 | $ 3140.82 | $ 3358.67 | $ 13416.16
[brace] | 1889 | 2326.14 | 591.75 | 1579.33 | 1547.71 | 1935.00 | 3954.27 | 11934.20
Total |  | 42827.22 | 13731.94 | 35087.22 | 45454.97 | 33046.44 | 74431.67 | 244579.46
Wisconsin Synod | 1888 | 1136.88 | 1669.65 | 1145.25 | 5723.15 | 83.86 | 2627.94 | 12386.73
[brace] | 1889 | 502.62 | 2017.14 | 1714.26 | †6673.16 | 97.97 | 2751.64 | 13756.79
Total |  | 1639.50 | 3686.79 | 2859.51 | 12396.31 | 181.83 | 5379.58 | 26143.52
Minnesota Synod | 1888 | 2611.86 | — | 110.25 | 809.65 | 15.60 | 635.96 | 4183.32
[brace] | 1889 | *5294.17 | — | 228.87 | 958.66 | 5.00 | 1053.03 | 7539.73
Total |  | 7906.03 | — | 339.12 | 1768.31 | 20.60 | 1688.99 | 11723.05
English Conference | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | —
Grand total |  | $52372.75 | $17418.73 | $38285.85 | $59619.59 | $33248.87 | $81500.24 | $282446.03

† Much of this probably belongs under the synod household fund and building fund.
* Much of this probably belongs under the building fund and the educational institutions fund. It is for the most part receipted under "Schuldentilgung" [debt reduction].

The statistics above for the Ev. Luth. Synodical Conference [*Synodalconferenz*] of North America are admittedly incomplete in part. The time allowed for compiling them was too short to collect all the necessary material, but even so this would probably have been possible if the brethren in office, especially those in the sister synods, had shown the matter a little more interest and had sent in their reports. But this, as has been pointed out repeatedly, has not been done by the great majority, and precisely those pastors who serve the largest, most populous congregations have made no returns at all.

I consider it necessary to remark on this in order thereby to indicate that no single column would have remained empty, and that otherwise almost all the figures would be more than twice as large if everyone had reported. It is to be hoped that this will happen for the publication of the next statistics in the year 1892, so that a full survey of the numerical strength and the whole activity of the orthodox church of this country may at last be gained.

C. F. W. Maaß.