LCMS Convention Proceedings St. Louis, Missouri — 1920, Page 58

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Proceedings: of Thirty-First National Convention,

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Synod resolved to fix the minimum salary for these miasio
at $100 per month and free dwelling, and to remind all co
through the [utheraner and the Lutheran Witness of the p tong :
resolution, that every congregation lift one collection. annually fp,
this treasury, for example, on the 12th Sunday after Trinity, One:
of the missionaries was given an opportunity to address a few words
to the convention.

Jewish Mission.
(Germ. Rep., pp. 131—133.)

This work is carried on in Greater New York amid much opposi-
tion and bitter organized hostility on the part of the ‘Jewish popula.
tion, so that police protection repeatedly has had to be requested:
Still a number of Jews suffer nothing to keep them from the services,
Converts are few, since embracing Christianity means for the Jew
forsaking his home, his relatives, and his friends.

The following figures show what energetic work is’ being dong
by the missionary. 153 sermons to a total of 3,974 auditors; 1,39]
religious talks in Jewish homes; 3,078 calls in Greater New York;
5,391 Jewish callers received privately; 5,750 tracts, 1,501 Catechisma,
‘and 740 New Testaments distributed gratis; 935 copiés of the New
Testament lent to Jews on deposit of cost price; 6 sermons and 2 lec.
tures delivered in the interest of the mission; 76 Jews purchased
New Testaments for 25 cents, and 35, Catechisms for 5 cents;
100° Catechisms sent on order to the Lutheran Hospital, and 25 to the
Jewish Mission of the Reformed Church; 100 Catechisms were pre
sented by a friend of the Lutheran Hospital. — $6,968.65 was dis-
bursed during the past three years,

- The Board reported that the missionary’s salary had been raised,
and requested authority to purchase a residence. -

Action.
Synod, by resolution, recommended to the Board ‘to consider
whether it would not be profitable to remove the mission to another
location in.view of the bitter hostility encountered. Should the mis-

sion remain in New York, the Board was authorized to purchasea ©

dwelling for the missionary at a cost not exceeding $8,000 and to
solicit donations for this purpose in Lutheraner and Lutheran Wt-
ness. The Treasurer’s report was also presented and reported correct.

Foreign-Tongue Mission.
(Germ. Rep., pp. 134—138.)
There are 14 missionaries engaged in this work: among Poles, 4;
_ Lithuanians, 5; Letts, 2;, Slovaks, 1; Italians, 1; Esthonians and
Finns, 1. New churches were erected by the Slovaks in Detroit and