# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1938_S167
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

Various Missions 167

under the 8uidance and leadership of their pastor nOw contribute
quite liberally toward the Salary of the candidates. This financial “4
assistance 8iven by the congregations employing the candidate en. ‘
abled the Board of Home Missions to reduce its Subsidy request
for the Candidate Fund from $75,000 to $50,000,

26. We recommend that the necessary funds be granted to
continue the Present work of the temporary placement of candi-

to make ends meet. Then followed an almost Synod-wide stagna.
tion, a certain fear, which halted the glorious work entrusted to
our care. Little or no mission €xpansion was undertaken when-