LCMS Convention Proceedings St. Louis, Missouri — 1920, Page 61

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th. Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States. 1920. 61

sts, 32 catechists, 83 Christian teachers, 52 non-Christian
teachers in secular branches), 64 mission-stations, 3,402
catechumens, 1,681 baptized Christians, 318 communicant
schools with 310 baptized pupils and 2,347 unbaptized
ing 1919, 141- adult heathen and 105 children of Chris-
were baptized, 60 confirmed, 813 communed, 44 marriages,

‘The migsion property consists of 66 sites totaling
‘etes, 12 dwellings for missipnaries, 5 chapels, 33 shelters,
uildings, and 22 dwellings for native assistants. Native
and pupils contributed 4,150 rupees ($1,383.33) ; school-
from the government, 5,733 rupees. A mountain home is
od as a sanatorium for the missionaries and their families.
fncome during the past three years, $117,240.36; disbursed,
4.60.’ Mountain home: income, $6,559, disbursed, $5,000.
China. | hs
(Germ. Rep., p. 145.)

ime years ago a mission society in our circles sent the first
onary to China, followed by another in 1915. At the last con-
Bion, Synod assumed this mission. Six additional. missionaries
E since been sent. One has recently resigned in order to qualify
F if as a mission doctor. Our missionaries and 6 native assistants
3 preach at six stations in the city of Hankow. The Christians
Mober 69 souls; of these, 53 are communicants, and 35, voting
Sbers. 12 schools are maintained, where 2 missionaries, 10 male
od 3 female teachers instruct 427 children. 11 persons were baptized
ing 1919. Synod as yet owns no property. It was recently resolved
n a new mission in Shihnanfu, over 300 miles southwest of.
m kow. This is a district where practically no. Protestant mission-
Rk has yet been done. Receipts for the past three years, $42,633.03 ;
Bbursements, $46,734.56. The Board is now trying to secure the
Mrices of a nurse for this field. Efforts were also made, though un-
Keessful, to obtain a missionary doctor for both India and China.
Mcancies in the treasurership of the Board were filled by the election
Mr. J. P. Damm and Mr. Wm. Lehr, auccessively. When the
fard assumed the management of the China Mission, Pastor A. Reh- ©
aldt, ex-secretary of the Lutheran Mission Society for China, was
ade a member-at-large of the Board. Owing to the death of Pastor
F Sievers, this did not increase the membership of the Board.
- ‘The Board recommended that the treasuries for India and China
f merged; that a General Secretary, who could visit the fields and
Brote all his time and energy to the prosecution of this work, be
pe horized; that in deliberating: on the recommendations of the
" vey Committee, the installation of a course in missions, resolved

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