# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1941_S288
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

200 Reports and Action on Various Mission-Fields

the frontiers. — Whether or not the colonization plan of the
Federal Government will succeed, the future will tell. — The Mis-
sion Board of the Oregon and Washington District, under whose
supervision this mission is conducted, erected a combination chapel
and parsonage at a cost of approximately $6,000.

Statistics:
Place Souls Communicants Sunday-School Pupils
Palmer 83 36 . 28
Anchorage 35 a1 6

Hawaiian Islands. — During the past year a number of requests
reached us to place a missionary on the Hawaiian Islands. At
present the Board of Home Missions has names of a dozen or more
Lutherans residing on the various islands. — The increased Army
and Navy activities and the stationing of men with the military
forces will prompt us to make a thorough study of our mission
opportunities on these islands.

Cornwall, England.—- Our churches in England are affiliated
with the Atlantic District. Mr. Joseph Pedlar, a consecrated lay-
man, a convert, at one time instructed by one of our pastors and
a member of one of our churches in Northern Michigan, continues
to preach the Gospel. Throngs from far and near come to hear him.
— Because of the isolated position of Cornwall and because many
evacuated families from other parts of England had to take up
their abode there, many strangers are to be found there now.
They, too, come to hear Mr. Pedlar. Writes Mr.Pedlar: “Never
before was the time as ripe for a revival of the teachings of Luther
as at present.... Will the followers of Luther, that mighty man —
of God, fail me? Surely they cannot.... I have sacrificed many
“of the comforts of life, especially of home-life, my health is im-
paired, and for a while, I was afraid, almost beyond repair. Surely
the Church and the people I love so much cannot fail me in this
glorious task. Outwardly it may seem as though I had done but
very little. That remains to be seen. I have relied wholly and
solely upon the guidance of my heavenly Father. Can He fail me?
Can His promises fail? Heaven’and earth shall pass away but not
His Word.... What a field is before us! We have put the hand to’
the plow; dare we look back, retreat?” Thus far Mr. Pedlar.

Present-day war conditions make it impossible to improve the
opportunities set forth above. When the opportune moment has
come, the Board of Home Missions will no doubt carefully consider
the plea made.

Institutional Missions. — Institutional or city missions date
back to 1896, when they were begun in Chicago. Since then this
work was extended to all larger cities and many smaller communi-
ties in the country. According to the statistics available at this
writing there are now 90 paid workers and 686 volunteers, visiting