LCMS Convention Proceedings St. Louis, Missouri — 1920, Page 60

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. Proceedings of Thirty-First. National™

religion. The Gospel is preached at Red Springs m
Neopit. The opening of another preaching-statj
Reservation’ among the Chippewa Indians is be =
$23,873.78 was disbursed during the past three years. radia

Three years ago Synod appropriated $26,000 for a nan cx
at Red Springs. The subsequent rise in prices made. thiy
sufficient. Dire need compelled the Board to begin with the
of a building, the cost of which, it is hoped, will not exceed ¢3

The Board requested Synod to approve the Board’s acti
ginning this building; to urge all congregations that have . a
contributed to send in an offering without delay ($19,000 inks
needed); to appropriate at least $10,000 annually for Indian
sions; to authorize the Board to borrow the money needed to
the final payment on the building and to provide for repaying ¥
loan by adding $2,000 to the annual budgetS and to approp
$1,000 for a chapel at Morgan Siding; :

The committee in charge of this report sustained the reg
whereupon they were granted by Synod. The annual appropri
was fixed at $15,000. The missionary was also encouraged to hy
the field at Neopit, where the services are attended by comparati
few at present.

The committee in charge reported that no financial report was:
presented. <A letter from one member of the auditing committsx
however, was presented stating that he had audited the books ang’
found them to be correct. The committee also reported that they’
had been assured that both the missionary as well as the Board hed.
labored faithfully and expressed regret that the needed financigf
assistance had not been forthcoming. This report also was adopted

Foreign Mission.

India.
(Germ. Rep., pp. 142 ff.)
Twenty-five years ago our Synod began its foreign mission-work'
in East India. During these years 20 missionaries and 1 mission: ,
nurse have been sent. The field to-day embraces 64 stations. Threaig
institutions prepare native assistants for our missions. The war,
however, has sadly impeded this work. In spite of repeated attempts,
no new workers could be sent since 1915. Death, sickness, and war:
conditions have reduced the number of missionaries from 15 to 4;
An appeal for-help was made to our sister synod in Australia. A grad: -
uate of their seminary accepted a call to this field, and, God willing,”
will soon enter upon his labors. 7 ;
_ Still the work has not only been carried on, but has even bees,
extended. Statistics: for 1919: 5 missionaries, 169 native assistants