# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1941_S225
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Reports and Action on Various Mission-Fields 225

The Ephphatha Conference met annually in the past triennium,

The Board held regular monthly meetings and several special
etings and also enjoyed visits with the Secretary of Missions.
Mr. G. F. Kruse, former treasurer of the Board, had sufficient'y

ehrke.
7 The treasurer’s reports show that the following sums were
bursed in these missions during the past three years: in 1938,
110.62; in 1939, $45,221.47; in 1940, $46,990.62.
_The Board endorses the appended memorials and hopes Synod
act favorably upon them.
Respectfully submitted,
Boarp or Missions To Dear AND BLIND
Pastor H. A. GAmsBeEr, Chairman
Pastor E. H. Bertram, Secretary
Mr. G. F. Kruse, Treasurer
Pastor Cart J. HorrMann, Statistician
Mr. J. P. MILER

Lutheran Library for the Blind
(Memorial 411)

-Wuereas, The Lutheran Library for the Blind which has
grown out of our mission-work for the blind will prove to be an
excellent means of promoting our mission among them, because it
will offer them an increasing knowledge of our Church | as the
Church of the true Gospel; and
Wuereas, This library can be made possible through help from

the blind themselves by transcribing into the Braille or New York
Point system of reading for the blind whatever of our literature
may be assigned to them; and

Wuereas, Our Church is the first and, as yet, the only Church
which has founded and now maintains such a library — space being
provided at our Seminary library in St. Louis — enabling the blind
thereby to get a better knowledge of the Lutheran Church; and

Wuereas, The work of gradually building up this library has
been carried on since 1938 without any cost to Synod; and
Wuereas, The present manager of the work, a retired mis-
sionary for the blind; must retire also from this work on account
of age; and ‘
- Wuereas, The Government grants free postage to such a library
when sending out books and to the readers when returning
; them; and
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