# Synodical Conference Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1922_S40
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40 Verhandlungen der achtundzwanzigſten Verſammlung

                                  Deficit.      Balance.
Mission Fund                      $7304.94      —
Missionstaube and Pioneer           252.94      —
Poor Students' Fund                 105.13      —
Transitory                        —                 7.25
                                  $7663.01      $31530.92
Less deficit                                       7663.01

                                  Balance       $23867.91

This balance is accounted for as follows: —

Cash in bank                          $14023.11
War Savings Stamps                        50.64
Building bonds                            25.00
Denver Sanitarium note                   500.00
Alabama working capital                  100.00
Bonds                                  13498.10
Due from mission-stations               1201.06
                                      $29397.91
Bills payable                           5530.00
                                                    $23867.91

It may be of interest to learn that receipts from “sundry sources”
include such items as legacies (Ellen Bransford estate, $11,096.01, and
Leah Jones estate, $946.80), interest from bank and investments, amount-
ing to $1,797.85; proceeds from the sale of books and post-cards, lecture
collections, Missionstaube profit, etc.

For the sake of completeness the treasurer respectfully reminds the
Honorable Conference that Missouri Synod accepted a budget of $100,000.00
for the calendar years 1921 and 1922, and the Joint Synod a budget of
$25,000.00 for the same period. The degree with which these budgets have
been met is reflected in the figures given above.

It may or may not be generally known that our missionaries and
teachers, together with some lay members, met in conference in New Or-
leans from June 14 to 18, 1922, and among other things resolved to in-
crease their donations to the Board, to pay all incidental expenses in main-
taining their respective chapels, and to try to raise a fixed sum monthly
toward paying the pastor's salary, the end and aim being self-support.
This should not, however, prompt the members of the Synodical Conference
to relax in their efforts toward raising their quotas for Colored Mission
work. The child is just beginning to walk and still needs support. Fur-
thermore, while our Colored Christians have taken a long stride forward
in adopting these resolutions, economic conditions will make progress slow
along these lines.

The Lord has blessed our efforts. He has strengthened and encour-
aged us with success, and has opened to us many fields in which the har-
vest is ripe. The extent to which we claim these blessings depends largely
upon the support and encouragement given the Board and its missionaries
by our white brethren.

Respectfully submitted,
Ewald Schuettner, Treasurer.

St. Louis, July 14, 1922.

We have audited the accounts and records of the Board for Colored
Missions of the Evangelical Lutheran Synodical Conference of North America
for the period covered in the foregoing report, and we hereby certify that
the same is in accordance with the books of the institution and, in our
opinion, is correct. (Signed.) K. Stone & Company,
Certified Public Accountants.