# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1920_S28
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28 Proceedings of Thirty-First National Conven

a gratuity to Teacher Roecker for instruction in
increase the allowance for rent of professors’ reside Be
to $40 per month. neon
Action.
Both requests were referred to the Board of Dj
justment.

Concordia Seminary at Porto Alegre, Brazil, § ‘

The faculty is composed of two professors and
professors. 23 pupils are in attendance. Disbursement
and rent: 1917, $4,145; 1918, $4,566.47; 1919, $3,106, °
The institution is of the greatest importance for
work in Sopth America, which absolutely requires a na
owing to the increasing difficulty of finding men who :
to enter that field, and to the great cost of sending them
the fact that such missionaries are handicapped by the
being foreigners. Should the doctrinal discussion which;
District is now carrying on with the Ev. Luth. Synod
Catharina, Parana, and Other States lead to agreement
and union, our work will be much extended and a thorog
will be even more necessary.
The Brazil District presented a memorial reque

recognition of their seminary a8 a synodical institution,.
priation to remove the seminary to a more favorable locati
tion of professors’ residences, and the appointment of a
tuguese professor.
Since this memorial was sent, the local authorities '¢
- on their own initiative, a property with a suitable building fa

ActTIon.

Synod resolved to recognize this institution as a
stitution. The purchase of a site and building to be co!
a seminary was sanctioned. $35,000 was appropriated.
chase; $12,000 for the erection of three professors’ dwelli
for additional buildings. Included in these appropriation
$8,000 whjch the brethren of Brazil promised to raise, an
realized from the sale of the old seminary. The ap
$35,000 for the purchase is to be exempted from the eu
thirds rule. The appointment of a native teacher to gr
in the Portuguese language was authorized.

III. New Institutions.
Institution in Western Canada.

A memorial of the Manitoba-Saskatchewan Distri¢
assembled together with lay delegates for the purpose;
as a separate district presented to Synod the great neeeg