# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1944_S389
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

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‘Miscellaneous Matters “+ 889

nter Japan. Japan’s transition from gross paganism to
ism ‘resulted. Today we have a sequel to that lost
nity for the Christian Church. God grant us a vision
and grasp the opportunities among the four hundred
n.Chinese. Never before in the history of any pagan nation
e. door been so wide open to Christian missionaries as it

ig come to naught.
) Up to the present time our actual work in India has’
ably suffered less from the war than that of any -other
foreign mission field. And even now there come. in-
. sistent calls for expansion of the work. Here, too, there
‘is a great lack of workers in the harvest fields. We
and hope that the political and economical upheaval which
iow being suppressed in India, but which will doubtlessly
sil: over, will not close the door to missions in India.
6) Latin America presents great and vast opportunities for
ion work today. The strangle hold which the Catholic
hurch has exerted in many of the countries in Latin America
‘gradually being broken. In spite of much propaganda on the
= part of the Catholic Church under the guise
in-America of “Good Neighbor” policy to keep evan-
FS gelicals from entering these vast mission
;; more and more missionaries are being sent to Latin
ica by the Protestant church of North America. The Emer-
yy, Planning Council is financing the cost of special Spanish

panish. The cost is about $275 a year. We hope that the
urch will make funds available and that God will open up

ur work there.
-7) When we begin to think of postwar’ work in Europe,

ae Europe is a shambles already today. It will
stwar Work be a heap of rubble tomorrow. Govern-
Europe mental and church organizations are under-
taking vast plans of physical reconstruction
stebuilding. Our Church must, however, think in terms of
he larger and more difficult task of reconstructing the spiritual
-church life of Europe. : a

‘ree China today. Surely, if we plan today for a postwar -
n of our Mission in China, God will not let our plan-

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