# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1923_S40
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40 Proceedings of Thirty-Second Regular Meeting,

to exceed its quota. The proposed increased number of Wworkerg

’ make an increased. budget necessary. Two teachers at

chial. schools were subsidized: in Chicago,
Fourteen pastors: serve 37 congregations. The salaries of: these
sionaries have been put on a par with those of home mission,
In Philadelphia, Pa., St. John’s Congregation CW. q. Schy
pastor) and the Lettish congregation have united. ° The com}
congregation has called Candidate J. Graudin 88 second pastor,
is to serve the Lettish membership as long as necessary, $1,439.17 43
been received toward the purchase of a church property for the It,
mission in West Hoboken, N.J. . Total disbursements, $35,48

Polish:
Il, and Scranton,

Action.
Resolved —

1. To encourage pupils at our institutions to learn one or :

other of the languages which they could profitably use in our Foreigs
tongue Missions and to apprise the theological faculties of this he)
lution through the Foreign-tongue Mission Board;

2. To instruct the Foreign-tongue Mission Board to devise way;
and means how foreign-tongue Lutheran immigrants may be directa?
to our Lutheran congregations when they come to large Cities; .

3. To adopt the firiancial report.

Indian Missions.

, 1921. The old building was remodeled and now se!
as a school. During the past three years Missionary H. M. Tjerna
preached at Red Springs, Morgan Siding, and Neopit. . os
Red Springs .is the chief station. Besides the church, Synod
Maintains a boarding-school here, which was attended by appro
mately 100 children. A number of adults were baptized and o
firmed. Fortnightly services are. conducted in the afternoon
“Morgan Siding and Neopit. The board regrets to report that B
Tjernagel has accepted a call to a congregation of the Norwe;
Cornelius Aaron, an Indian, who graduated from Concor
Seminary, St. Louis, in J une, has been. called to thé Oneida Reserv:
tion near Green Bay, Wis. This is a promising field; the reservati
numbers about 4,000 souls. Thirty children from this reservati
-attend our school. On the reservation there are also a number
confirmed Lutherans.
In accordance with the resolution of the 1920 convention attemp
were, made te open a mission on the White Earth Reservation in Mi