# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1941_S227
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Reports and Action on Various Mission-Fields 227

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Resolved, That in the pages of our periodicals the attention of
seis
rs and people be urged to take a still greater interest in the
jtual welfare of the blind in their community. -

‘Action of Synod: These resolutions were adopted.

; ‘A Man Proficient in Sign-Language to Be on Board
(Unprinted Memorial 91)

This memorial suggests that a change in regulations for the
lations Committee be made (paragraph 4, Section III, Regu-
ions for Nominations Committee, Handbook of 1937, p. 62) so
man able to speak the sign-language could be added to the
, residence restrictions having prevented this so far.

Report of Committee 6

We recommend that the petition to elect a man familiar with the
‘language as a member of the Mission Board among Deaf and
d be referred to the Executive Secretary of Missions and the
d-of Home Missions in North America.

Action of Synod: This recommendation was adopted.

Report of Board of Foreign Missions
(Memorial 413)
" Since press and radio reports of our day are replete with items

issions, we need not be astonished if some members of Synod are
nclined to think that our Foreign Mission work must be sadly
organized or practically disrupted and that there would be
ight opportunity to carry on Foreign Mission work under present
cumstances. While it is true that some property damage has
ccurred and that many former members of our congregations in
ecupied China have left their homes and moved into the interior,
“and while there are difficulties and restrictions as to travel and
as to securing supplies, yet it is also true that the Lord has miracu-
ously shielded our workers amid all dangers, has granted them
heroic faithfulness and admirable loyalty, has permitted our
mission-work to be carried on in practically every one of our
fields, and that the outlook for present and future work was never
‘so bright and promising as it is in large sections of India and par-
ticularly in unoccupied China. Therefore the Board of Foreign
Missions, in submitting this report, wishes to impress the need for,
and the manifest wisdom of, the most aggressive and courageous

“people be directed to the literature for the blind and that our °