# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1941_S176
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

174 Reports on General Missions

from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.” They are
ever ready, always willing, to break the bread of life, and we can-
not but praise the Lord on bended knees that He has given strength
and courage, faith and love, to these His messengers standing in the
front line of action, bearing the brunt of it all in our name. Our
prayers and our support will speed them on to even greater zeal
faithfully to perform the tasks placed upon them.

Report of the Secretary of Missions
: (Memorial 401)

The past triennium was again a triennium of God’s abundant
grace and mercy also in the various departments of missions. The
Lord, in spite of our weakness, lukewarmness, and indifference, in
spite of devastating wars and bloodshed, in spite of the hatred and
the opposition waged against us, did not only permit us to continue
the work begun, but He permitted us to go forward and to see
some progress in every mission department.

As per instructions given, your Secretary, from time to time,
sat in at the meetings of the Board of Missions to the Deaf and
Blind, the European Board of Missions, the Board of Foreign
Missions, the Board of Missions for South America. Nearly all
of the meetings of the General Church Extension Board were
attended, as were also the meetings of the Board of Home Missions.
The minutes of all the synodical mission departments and the Gen-
eral Church Extension Board were received and filed. It will not
be taken amiss if it is stated that God has given us in the various
boards groups of God-fearing, consecrated, conscientious, and will-
ing men ever ready to sacrifice all that His kingdom may come. —
At this time we also wish to point to the several congregations that
were ever ready and willing to permit their pastors to serve the
Church at large as members of synodical and District mission de-
partments. A word of recognition and appreciation might be con-
sidered.

European Missions. —War-torn Europe presents a pitiful spec-
tacle, but the colors of the heavenly King are still marching for-
ward. Enshrouded in deepest gloom, amid many difficulties, our
messengers of peace still proclaim the comforting truths in Fin-
land, Poland, France, Germany, and England. Though some of
the pastors were for a time separated from their little flocks, some
being in prison, some on the firing-line, they now for the most
part have returned unharmed to their charges and to their
loved ones.

The South American Fields: Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay,
Uruguay. — Though these countries are not engaged in the ter-