# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1941_S229
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" Reports and- Action on Various Mission-Fields 229

was granted to Missionary E.H.Meinzen and Miss Anena
msen of India as well as to Missionary A. T. Koehler of China.
property of our congregation at Enshih and our chapels
i were demolished by bombing, as also the property we have
ed at Kweifu. Furthermore, our chapel and residence at Ichang
ed -severe injury. No property loss was encountered at
kow nor at Wanhsien.

“Some changes were necessitated by the war, chief of which was
temporary shifting of our theological seminary from Hankow
anhsien.

Since the resolution of Synod authorized sending a Visitor to
riental mission-fields, since the exploration of the Philippine
ands was also authorized by synodical resolution, and since the
ard had long felt the need for having an Executive Secretary,
as resolved to call a man whose first assignment would be the
Sitation of the foreign fields and who thereafter would take his
ace in the home office. The Rev. O.H.Schmidt of Valparaiso,
, was called to this position and installed April 14, 1940. He left
r the Orient April 18 and returned to St.Louis on January 1,
1941: For various reasons the visitation of the India field was
postponed to a later date. Under the protection-and grace of God
@ visited almost every one of our fields in China, both in the
occupied and in the unoccupied territory, and held numerous con-
ferences with our missionaries as well as with the national workers
d Christians, endeavoring to strengthen them and to work out
lans for the intensification and expansion of the work. Together
ith Candidate Alvaro A. Carino, who had spent several months
preliminary work and in compiling an exhaustive report, Sec-
retary Schmidt made an extensive visit of exploration in the
Philippines, in Manila, Luzon, and through most of the islands,
terviewing also almost all the church-leaders in the common-
ealth of the Philippines and many leaders in education, industry,
and public life.

* We recommend that Executive Secretary Schmidt be given
=~ ample time to render a personal report to Synod on his visitation
fs and his exploratory work.

a On the strength of Secretary Schmidt’s and Candidate Carino’s
reports and recommendations the Board resolved on March 1, 1941,
to open a mission in the Philippine Islands, to begin by sending
two men to the Philippines, one of whom is to be Candidate
aA. Carino, and to begin in Manila.

Since the Board felt that the cause of Foreign Missions might
be helped by personal addresses to conferences and congregations
‘on the part of Secretary O.H. Schmidt, bringing his impressions
fresh from the field, he was encouraged by the Board to make