# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1941_S228
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

228 Reports and Action on Various Mission-Fields

support of our Foreign Mission work “while it is day, before the
night cometh when no man can work: ” “The time is short; earth’s
midnight is approaching.”

The statistics for 1940 are rather incomplete because of prevail-
ing conditions. Here is the picture:

India. — We have 205 congregations and 61 outstations, a total
of 266. On March 1, 1941, we had 43 male-and 4 female mission-
aries; these, together with 39 wives of missionaries, and 113 chil-
dren, constitute a total foreign missionary personnel of 199.
Of Indian mission~helpers, all classes, there are 456. Christians
connected with us live in 602 villages. Souls, 18,369; baptized
members, 14,338; communicants, 4,481. Of primary and secondary
schools there are 128 day-schools and 9 night-schools. Pupils in
primary schools, 7,208; in middle schools, 1,689; in high schools,
357; grand total of 9,254 pupils. A total of 526 inmates live in our
boarding-homes. The total enrolment in training institutes, in the
theological seminary at Nagercoil, and in other institutes is 95.

Report of medical work in Ambur and Vaniyambadi: In-
patients, 566; dispensary patients, 16,911; operations, 269; total
number treated, 17,477; deaths, 15; religious services held with
' patients, 300.

In the Trivandrum District dispensary work was conducted by
a missionary and several missionaries’ wives. In-patients, 9; out-
calls, 52; dispensary patients, 3,310; number of operations, 32;
total number treated, 3,371.

China. — We have 17 congregations and 32 outstations, a total
of 49. On March 1, 1941, we had 14 male and 2 female missionaries;
these together with 11 wives of missionaries and 37 children con-
stitute a total foreign missionary personnel of 64.

Concordia Seminary, Wanhsien, had 22 students.

The Mission Hospital at Enshih (Shihnan), Hupeh, reports
that 9,218 patients were cared for during the past year. In the
hospital 180 patients were cared for, plus 33 out-call deliveries by
our nurses. Out of the 180 adult patients in the hospital last year
not one was lost, which speaks well for the work carried on there.

During the last triennium our mission suffered severe losses
in this, that the Lord saw fit to call out of this life Missionary
Max Zschiegner, who died on January 23, 1940, and the wife of
Missionary Herman Klein, who departed this life on August 14,
1939. Furthermore, Missionaries R. W. Gross, W.H. McLaughlin,
R.J. Muehl, E. N.Seltz, and Teacher Paul Bachmann saw them- -
selves constrained to leave the work of our Foreign Missions.
In addition, Missionary E. Riedel of China had to return to the
United States quite recently because of illness, as also Missionary
W. W. Gnuse of India; furthermore, leave of absence because of