The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1926, Page 170

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THE LUTHERAN PIONEER.

Directors any and all necessary expenses incident to
the successful execution of their respective activity,
excepting as may be otherwise provided for;

“That the sums designated in the budget shall
be available to the respective boards and com-
missions for the purpose or purposes outlined in
their respective budget requests, payable in the
prescribed manner during the fiscal year covered by
the Budget, except that for the Building Fund and
for the Church Extension Fund such moneys only
shall be disbursed as have been actually paid in;

- “That the members of the various boards of
Synod shall not solicit moneys from churches and
societies in addition to the sums allowed them in
the Budget, unless the Board of Directors has
authorized them to do so. It is understood that
when extra gifts are given for special purposes, if
such purposes are not included in the Budget, such
gifts shall inure to. the exclusive benefit of such

. particular purposes.” — The Synodical Conference
is asked to induce the other synods to proceed like-
wise in regard to Negro Missions.

9. Negro Missions in Northern Cities. —
Hundreds of thousands of Negroes have migrated
in the last years from the southern plantations to
northern cities, and as such they lie before the
doors of the white Imtheran congregations, as did
poor Lazarus at the door of the rich man. Surely
our congregations will do more than did the rich
man, who gave only of the crumbs which fell from
his table. The command of their Lord and
Savior Jesus Christ must prompt them to do
mission-work among them. This duty lies nearest
to our congregations. The Mission Board only
comes in second place. At its regular meeting,
held April 21 and 22, 1926, the Board committed
itself to the following resolution: “Our rule should

be not to conduct missions in isolated places, where -

supervision is difficult, but to concentrate -our
efforts on the fields now being worked by us. How-
ever, if there are compelling reasons for making
an exception, the exception should be made.”
Accordingly, appeals from brethren in Buffalo,
Milwaukee, Kansas City, etc., were referred to their
Tespective pastoral conferences.

10. Needs of Negro Missions. — For the work
of missions during the fiscal year about $175,000
is needed. ‘The Wisconsin Synod will raise about
one-fifth of this sum and the Missouri Synod
about four-fifths. ‘The following buildings, remodel-
‘ings, etc., are needed at present or will be very
~ Necessary in two years: —

Dormitory at Greensboro College .............- $50,000
Administration Building at Greensboro ........ 50.000
Remodeling at Greensboro College ............. 8,000
Addition to Alabama Luther College ........... 6.000
Six teachers’ residences in Alabama ........... 3,600
Building site and chapel in Birmingham, Ala... 15,000
Building site and chapel in Atmore, Ala........ 1,500
Building site and chapel in Lamison, Ala....... 1,000
Building site and chapel in Pensacola, Fla...... 8,000
Clearance of debt in Philadelphia, about........ 10,000
Help in building of chapel in Yonkers.......... 10,000
Clearance of debt in St. Louis ................ 10,000
Schools in North Carolina .............+-.00+: 75,000
Building site and chapel in Spartanburg, S.C... 10,000

$258,100

11. The Mission Board. — Pastor Richard Jesse,
who served as member of the Board since 1914,
handed in his resignation on February 18, 1925.
The Board in this case did not use its right to
supply the vacancy. It advises the Synodical
Conference to fill the vacancy by election and is
ready to propose a candidate.— Tour years ago
the number of members of the Board was increased
by the addition of two members from the Wisconsin
Synod. The Board asks that the Synodical Con-
ference add one member each from the Norwegian
and the Slovak synods. — The time of office of
President Im. F. Albrecht, Mr. Theodore W. Eck-
hart (treasurer), Pastor Louis A. Wisler (member
since 1908) has expired. — As a rule, the Board is
supposed to meet six times a year; two of these
meetings, in the spring and fall, are general
meetings. However, the Board held twenty meetings
in the past two years. In addition to these the
Executive Committee, composed of the chairman,
the treasurer, and the Director of Missions, has
held twenty-five meetings. In all these meetings the
minutes are recorded in the English language. —
The Board has rented an office in Concordia
Publishing House, and into this office the Director
of Missions moved on July 1, 1926.

12. Our Two Mission Publications. — The
Missionstaube and the LuTHERAN PIONEER, in
spite of the fact that the number of pages has
been doubled (sixteen instead of eight pages)
without advancing their subscription price of
50 cents, have not increased the number of sub-
scribers (13,500 and 4,500). or the first time
in its forty-eight years of existence the Missions-
taube had a deficit last year. A competent person
in our circles says “that these two mission-papers
have done their utmost, in past years, to bring to
their readers interesting missionary reading-matter.
We are convinced that through greater distribution
of these mission-publications the interest and con-
sequently also the gifts of their readers for Negro