# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1935_S126
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

114 Proceedings of Thirty-Sixth Regular Convention,

Wuereas, Valparaiso is our only Lutheran university -and. has
made notable progress in the educational world, being fully -ac-
credited; and ;

WHEREAS, Valparaiso University is now celebrating the tenth
anniversary of its existence under the management of the Lutheran
University Association; therefore be it “

Resolved, That we extend to Valparaiso University our sincere
congratulations and good wishes for a greater future under God; that
we urge both our clergy and our laity to encourage our young men
and young women to study at Valparaiso and that our congregations
be encouraged to suppoprt the university through prayers and con-

tributions. Action of Synod.

This resolution was adopted.

IV. MISSIONS.

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A. MISSIONS IN GENERAL.

Committee 8 brought in its resolutions on Memorials 302, 303,
and 601, D, 3.

Report of the Secretary of Missions.
(Memorial 302.)

1. In August, 1932, the undersigned entered upon his activities.
During the past triennium your Secretary was privileged to visit
practically the entire Home Mission field in this country and in
Canada. This enabled him to gather also such information as can be
_ gained only by personal contact and personal observation.

2. The first two years of the triennium were devoted to a specific
study of the subsidized mission-fields, to a study of their respective
peculiarities, of their specific needs, of their past development, of their
future possibilities, of possible financial adjustments in the interest
of economy and expansion. To obtain an unbiased opinion and a true
Picture of the activities, it was necessary not only to meet with the
District mission boards, but also to accompany members of these
boards or their field secretaries to such mission-stations of their
District as presented the type and general character of their mission
activities and the men needed ‘to carry on the work.

3. The third year of the past triennium was given over to the
discussion of given mission policies, to bring about a closer coordina-
tion and intensification of our missionary endeavors. All the twenty-
eight District Home Mission boards were contacted. With all of
them one or two day-meetings were held. We cannot: refrain from