# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1944_S186
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186 aa ' . Missions

gregations among them, while the blind do not flock together, their
going .out is very restricted and limited, and even then they must
have a guide or leader, they cannot be gathered together into
groups for regular services; and ;

Wueneas, The blind are totally cut off from books printed with
ink and all other literature and must learn to read by their sense
of touch, which the missionary also must learn; and

Wuersas, Mission work among the deaf requires very much
time to be absent from home and in traveling to and from the many
and often far-flung mission stations and in the preparation for
instruction and sermons in the sign language, while the mission
‘work among the blind needs all the missionary’s time in a totally
different way at his desk, and now more so with the added work
for the Lutheran Library for the Blind, and, the Lord willing, it
can be expected to be increased still more with the proposed addi-
tion of Lutheran literature in Spanish Braille for the blind in
Mexico, South and Central American countries, and the added
work for the proposed establishment of the Lutheran school for
blind children; and
‘ WHEREAs, The only connection with by far the most of our
blind people both in our own country and in foreign lands for
the present time is now through correspondence in Braille only,
therefore

The undersigned and other blind fellow members of the Hon.
Missouri Synod do hereby present the following urgent appeal and
request to the Hon. Synod:

That the increasing burden of the combined mission work for
both the deaf and the blind of the present mission board be relieved
and made lighter by the separation of the mission for the blind
‘from the mission to the deaf, and that a special mission board for
the blind be created and appointed, which will be a valuable im-
provement of the work for both missions, FREDERICK GRAEPP

ACTION

It was resolved that Overture 409, “Petition to Appoint a
Special Mission Board for the Blind” likewise be referred to the:
above committee. .

Christian Training of Blind Children
(Memorial 408)
’ WHEREAS, The preaching and teaching of the Gospel of Jesus is
and remains our chief obligation in life; and
. WHEREAS, This duty includes that we ever ‘be mindful of the
little ones, of whom Jesus said: “Suffer ‘the little children to come

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