# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1938_S178
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178 Various Missions

Two of our missionaries are working chiefly among the blind
through the means of magazines, personal contacts, and cor-
respondence. This work is also bearing splendid fruit, as the

4 many letters received by them testify.
" The following literature is published in the interest of the
blind: The Lutheran Messenger for the Blind, a monthly period-
: ical published in the English Standard Braille, is mailed to over
" 1,000 addresses in the United States and in twenty-five foreign
countries. The Lutheran Herald for the Blind, printed in Moon
Type, is mailed quarterly to about 766 addresses, and Der Luthe-
rische Bote, also a quarterly, printed in German Braille, is mailed
to 1,200 addresses, with readers also in every State of the Union
and in many foreign countries. Tracts in Spanish Braille are sent
about once a year to approximately thirty-three addresses. The
size of these mailing-lists could be readily increased if funds were
at our disposal.

Other braille literature available in book form: Luther’s Small
Catechism, with Short Explanations and Bible-passages, by Dr. W.
Dallmann, a Bible History in two volumes (a reprint of Synod’s
‘ Bible History for Parochial and Sunday-schools, Life of Dr. Martin

Luther, a Lutheran Hymnal containing 100 hymns, with braille
musical notations, and a Prayer-book.
The official periodical of the Deaf and Blind Missions is the
Deaf Lutheran, a four-page monthly, which is used by the mis-
sionaries to keep in touch with their members and also in their
mail-mission work among isolated deaf. The editor is Pastor
. ©0.C. Schroeder, and the business manager was the late Pastor
F. A. Hischke.
Our missionaries are still laboring under a 20-per-cent. cut
in salary. We hope the Hon. Synod ‘will soon find it possible to
: restore at least some of this salary. ,
if The Board held monthly meetings and annually had the
wt pleasure of having the Secretary of Missions in its midst. Because
of illness Mr. G. F. Kruse, our very capable treasurer, had to resign;
but the Board has been fortunate in getting a willing and an
efficient successor in Mr. E. A. Gehrke.

The treasurer’s reports show that the following sums were
ip disbursed in these missions during the past three years: in 1935,
it $40,278.73; in 1936, $41,786.62; in 1937, $42,093.78.

: The resolutions of the 1935 convention have been carried out.
The Omaha congregation received a loan amounting to $15,000 from
the General Church Extension Fund for a chapel and parsonage,
which were ready for occupancy in February, 1938. Repayments
shall be made by the Board with the money heretofore used for

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