# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1938_S186
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186 Various Missions

structed to appoint a committee which shall in cooperation with
the Board of Foreign Missions carefully consider aforementioned
matter and offer a course of action to carry out their findings.”

Action of Synod: These resolutions were adopted.

Greetings to all Missions in Foreign Countries

Upon recommendation of Committee 2 it was

Resolved, That Synod assembled in convention at St. Louis,
Mo., June 15—24, 1938, extend to all missionaries, congregations,
and brethren in foreign lands fraternal greetings together with
an assurance of our continued interest and of our prayers that
the Lord may keep us all in His grace and continue to bless us
and them as He has blessed us in the past.

New Guinea Mission
Request of the Ev. Lutheran Synod in Australia

Committee 2 reported:

Your Committee for several hours and in several sessions gave
due consideration to, and engaged in due deliberations upon, an
unprinted memorial dispatched by our sister synod in Australia
to this convention, which was supported by two letters and a cable-
gram sent by Dr. J. H.C. Fritz, now visiting in Australia. The
substance of this overture is a request that we support them in
a mission venture in New Guinea, which they intend to conduct
as their own, toward which, however, they ask us to subscribe
an annual subsidy of five thousand dollars ($5,000), until the
venture, which necessitated the purchase of a large plantation,
becomes self-supporting through the expected commercial proceeds.

We present our recommendation in the form of the following
resolutions:

Wuerras, The information contained in the communication
at our disposal is not sufficiently comprehensive and conclusive
to warrant definite action at this time; and

Wuereas, We hesitate to withdraw five thousand dollars
($5,000) a year from our own missions, which are seriously re-
tarded by insufficient funds, without first being convinced of the
merits of the proposed venture; and

Wuereas, Dr. J. H.C. Fritz will in the near future return from
his visit with our Australian brethren; and

Wuereas, He will then be able to explain in detail the reques
and the venture which has prompted it; therefore be it

Resolved, That we refer the entire matter to the Board o