# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1944_S188
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188 Missions. -

Publication of the Semiquarterly Devotional Booklet. -
in Braille for the Blind and the Deaf-Blind
‘ ; (Memorial 715) ; .

Wuereas, The semiquarterly devotional booklet published by
Concordia Publishing House has proved so popular among our
people that it is now printed in 400,000 copies; and

Wuereas, Many of our blind and deaf-blind readers have ex-
pressed their longing and desire for such a Lutheran devotional
booklet, in strong preference over the devotional material pub-
lished by non-Lutheran church bodies, which often are permeated
throughout with disgusting and soul-destroying ‘Modernism and |
. other false doctrines; and

Wuereas, This expressed desire comes not only from our own
blind, but also from a number of deaf-blind, who often have no
other means of reading devotional booklets except in Braille by
their sense of touch; and

Wuereas, A number of non-Lutheran blind and’ deaf-blind
readers also have expressed this desire for our Lutheran devo-
tional booklet, therefore

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

That the mission board for the blind be authorized to have the
English semiquarterly devotional booklet published in Braille, so
that the blind and the deaf-blind also may enjoy and find strength
and comfort in these booklets of devotion. FREDERICK GRAEPP

ACTION

It was resolved to refer this matter to the Board of Missions
to the Deaf and the Blind.

Publication of Lutheran Literature in Spanish Braille
for the Blind of Latin America
(Memorial 716)

Wuereas, The Lutheran Hour reply mail from Latin America,
namely, from Mexico, South and Central America, has given
ample and overwhelming proof that a great, almost entirely un-
explored and untouched mission field still lies in wait for our Lu-
theran Church among the millions of people in the neighboring
nations below the Rio Grande River; and
Wuerzas, Reliable reports show that there are estimated to be
some 200,000 blind in South America alone, to say nothing of the
unestimated number of blind in Mexico and Central America; and: