# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1944_S382
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

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3882 Miscellaneous Matters

on his circuit. Far up in the Yukon on the Alaskan Highway, M
sionary L. Jones tells of the joy and gratitude with which a grou
of construction workers isolated from the rest of the world ré ;
ceived a Lutheran sermon, and with what gratitude members of:

- ing the most people in the shortest possible time with the least
expenditure of money and manpower.

“In Prison and Ye Visited Me”

It has sometimes been said that the pastors of the Missouri
Synod are not as aggressivé and alert to mission opportunities.

‘prisoners of war, bringing Christ and heavenly healing to tens
of thousands in their hour of: need. 7

As the number of Prisoners of war increased from a few”
thousand to more than 150,000 in not many months, the work *

souri Synod we secured the right of way from the United States
Government to work among the Lutheran prisoners of war.
According to Army statistics, 45 per cent of all German prisoners