The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1922, Page 82

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The Lutheran Pioneer.

To the Honorable Officers and Delegates of the
Ev. Luth. Synodical Conference of North America.

In session at Cincinnati, 0., August 16 to 21, 1922.

CHRISTIAN AND FRATERNAL GREETINGS: —
Your treasurer is pleased to submit the following re-
port for the fiscal years July 1, 1920, to June 30, 1922.

RECEIPTS.

1920-21. 1921-22. Totals.

Joint Synod of Wis-
consin ..........-

$ 7090.45 $ 9404.98 $ 16495.43

Missouri Synod ..... 79449.12 $5406.34 164855.46
Norwegian ‘Synod . 1.00 1.00
Slovac Synod ....... 400.00 50.00 450.00
Sundry sources ...... 15347.54 6551.81 21899.35
Mission-stations ..... 15282.91 14648.17 29931.08
Totals..... $117570.02 $116062.30 $233632.32
DISBURSEMENTS.
1920-21. 1921-22.
Salaries ............ $71025.86 $77398.15
Chapels .......... 4884.70 2221.96
Trave eling expenses... 8914.76 8124.78
Rent and repairs.. 3785.30 2939.09
Missionstaube and
PiONCer ieee. a coerce 147.33 132.86
Loan to missions.... 50.00
Investments ......... 3719.04
Immanuel College.... 11235.68 8010.32
Poor students ....... 449.00 835.00
Sundry expenses 5362.64 4508.00
Transitory vee 111.16 101.00
Borrowed money re-
Ol Soonntecosase — 200.00
Jubilee expenses ..... — 3053.72
Totals..... $109685.47 $107524.88 217210.35
Balance........  $16421.97
Cash on hand, July 1, 1920............. §801.14
$22223.11
Bonds received, July 1, ’20, to June 30, ’22 8200.00
Cash on hand, July 1, 1922............. $14023.11

* “Sundry expenses” covers such items as books and
stationery, fuel, insurance, publications, freight, postage,
printing, etc.

Conditions of the various treasuries are as follows: —

Deficit. Balance.
Chapel Fund . $8097.36
Chapel funds: wii 488.02
WDetroitwencc ces osc ciscctics tries 1.00
IN GOMAL wiieiclersietereia\cio se s\clsleicielele 394.15
Napoleonville ..........2.e+.+. 851.33
Philadelphia .................. 378.00
Plaquemine wes csicieccinc esos cs ce 1645.66
Stlouisia cc cuiclesisiaieiclelalaleeiciete 6385.63
Church Extension Fund .......... 279.48
Dormitory at Greensboro ......... 5856.72
Endowment Fund ..........- Coane 6806.67
Jubilee Fund ............... oo0 339.65
Mission Fund .........-..-. po00006 ; $7304.94 :
Missionstaube and Pioneer - 252.94
Poor Students’ Fund 105.13 :
Transitory ............... eictetatete 7.25
$7663.01 $381530.92
Less deficit .......+2++ee-eeceneee _ 7663.01
Balance.....++++2e++++5.  $23867.91

This balance is accounted for as follows: —

Cash in bank ..........0e0e00-+-.$14023.11
War Savings Stamps 6 50.64
Building bonds .............++--. 25.00
Denver Sanitarium note .......... 500.00
Alabama working capital ......... 100.00
BOnGS ye cisteiecic «isiierioneltielsielelcleinicie’s's 13498.10
Due from Mission-stations ........ 1201.06

$29397.91

Bills payable ............ 5530.00

$23867.91

It may be of interest to learn that receipts from
“sundry sources” include such items as legacies (Ellen
Bransford estate, $11,096.01, and Leah Jones estate,
$946.80), interest from bank and investments, amount-
ing to $1,797.85; proceeds from the sale of books and
post-eards, lecture collections, Missionstaube profit, ete.

For the sake of completeness the treasurer respect-
fully reminds the Honorable Conference that Missouri
Synod accepted a budget of $100,000.00 for the calendar
years 1921 and 1922, and the Joint Synod a budget of
$25,000.00 for the same period. The degree with, which
these budgets have been met is reflected in the figures
given above.

It may or may not be generally known that our mis-
sionaries and teachers, together with some lay members,
met in conference in New Orleans from June 14 to 18,
1922, and among other things resolved to increase their
donations to the Board, to pay all incidental expenses
in maintaining their respective chapels, and to try to
raise a fixed sum monthly toward paying the pastor’s
salary, the end and aim being self-support. This should
not, however, prompt the members of the Synodical Con-
ference to relax in their efforts toward raising their
quotas for Colored Mission work. The child is just be-
ginning to walk and still needs support. Furthermore,
while our Colored Christians have taken a long stride
forward in adopting these resolutions, economic conditions
will make progress slow along these lines.

The Lord has blessed our efforts. He has strength-
ened and encouraged us with success, and has opened
to us many fields in which the harvest is ripe. The ex-
tent to which we claim these blessings depends largely
upon the support and encouragement given the Board
and its missionaries by our white brethren.

Respectfully submitted,

EwaLp SCHUETTNER, Treasurer.

St. Louis, July 14, 1922.

We have audited the accounts and records of the Board.
for Colored Missions of the Evangelical Lutheran Synod-
ical Conference of North America for the period covered
in the foregoing report, and we hereby certify that the
same is in accordance with the books of the institution
and, in our opinion, is correct.

(Signed.) K. Stone & Company,
Certified Publio Accountants.