# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1926_S135
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Ev. Luth. Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States. 1926. 121

b) That the General Home Mission Board, in conjunction with
the Student Welfare Committee, call this General Student Pastor;
¢) That an appropriation of $5,000 for Student Welfare Work be
allowed.

5. That Synod authorize the continued publication of the
Lutheran Student.

6. That it be considered the normal policy not to build up con-
F gregations consisting of students exclusively, but that the special
E needs of students be served either in connection with existing: con-
a gregations, or that new congregations, even though primarily estab-
q lished to care for students, seek also a non-student membership.

7. That Synod approve the publication, by the Committee, of
; literature designed to meet the peculiar needs of students, including
FE a series of timely monographs by recognized specialists.

il 8. That Synod hereby thanks the American Luther League and
the Walther League for their contributions to the work of the
5. Committee.

Indian Missions.

Report of the Board.
(German Report, p. 208.)

Your Board for Indian Missions wishes to report to Synod that
our labors among the Indians have not been in vain in the past tri-
ennium. Our old stations were. strengthened, and new ones were
=. added. ;
7 In March, 1923, the Rev. H. M. Tjernagel, after six years of effi-
4 cient and successful service as missionary at Red Springs, Neopit,
: and Morgan, accepted’ a call into the Norwegian Synod. His suc-
E sessor is the Rev. O. W. C. Boettcher, installed at Red Springs in
B August, 1923. .
q Missionary Boettcher reports 150 souls at Red Springs, 50 com-
* municants, and 21 voting members; at Neopit, 18 communicants; at
Morgan, 16 communicants. During the triennium 2 adults and
39 children, four of them between the ages of eight and eleven years,
were baptized; 21 children and 3 adults were confirmed. Besides
these 4 were converted on their death-bed, but died without con-

The average attendance at Red Springs has been 45 adults in
summer and 25 in winter; at Neopit, 15 adults; at Morgan, in
“1924, 15; in 1925, 30 and more. Morgan, at the present time, seems

to be a promising station. The average attendance of non-Lutheran

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