# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1938_S319
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Miscellaneous Matters 319

dated July 1 Dir. Brand wrote to Dr. Brux as follows: ‘At a meet-
ing of our Executive Committee today it was resolved to ask you
to submit at an early date to a complete medical examination by
a physician qualified to determine

“*1) What the exact nature of your health is;

““2) Whether you are in a physical condition to return to the
Orient in the near future.

“‘The same request is voiced by us with respect to Mrs. Brux
and all your children. ... We are aware that you were under
a rather severe nervous strain recently and therefore need the
findings of your physician before we can take any further steps... .’

“July 3. Dr. Brux answered: ‘I herewith acknowledge receipt
of your letter of July 1. We are considering the choice of a doctor
here.... No doubt you realize that I must know definitely at once
what my present status is with respect to salary. Am I now on
salary or not? In case the medical examination should result —
contrary to our hopes—in an unfavorable verdict, will I be on
salary until I shall have obtained a call here in the States? Please
_ give me a clear reply to each of these two questions. Each day
of delay may deprive the family and myself of necessary earnings.’

“July 6. Resolved to approach the Board of Directors for ‘the
moneys needed in case we call and send him [Dr. Brux] out.’

“It was also resolved to make Dr. Brux ‘a one-time allowance
of $150 to tide him over.’

“July 8. Dr. Brand answered Dr. Brux’s letter of July 3 as
follows: ‘I submitted your letter of July 3, 1935, to the board. In
answer to your two questions I was instructed to write you:

“1) That you are not on salary of the Board;

“‘2) That you will not be on salary of the Board until you
have obtained a call here in the States in case the medical exami-
nation to which we asked you and your family to submit should
result in an unfavorable verdict;

“&) That a one-time grant of $150 be made to you, which will
reach you as soon as we can get the money from the Fiscal Office.

“ ‘Since you asked for a “clear reply to each of the two ques-
tions,” we trust the foregoing will be satisfactory.

“May I ask you to be kind enough to give my address to the
physician who made your medical examination in order to enable
him to communicate with the Board directly? We shall be very
thankful to him for immediate complete clinical reports on each
case.’

“July 13. Dir. Brand sent the check for $150 to Dr. Brux with
the following remarks: ‘In agreement with my recent letter I am
sending you the Board’s check . . . in the amount of $150, a one-