LCMS Convention Proceedings St. Louis, Missouri — 1923, Page 36

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36 Proceedings of Thirty-Second Regular Meeting, ~

4. That this salary apply also to missionaries who are enti
_ supported by Synod;

5. That in special cases the board be empowered to act Beco
to its judgment in the matter; '

6. That congratulations be sent to the Brazil District on
oceasion of its twenty-fifth’ anniversary in’ 1925, and that the re
sentative of the board to be sent down there for the Occasion tf
part in the festivities and at the same time regulate- such matterg
may be pending; . ° .

7. That the Brazil District be empowered to call a Directoy
Missions if it deems it necessary;

8. That the Brazil District be authorized to add one year to
course of the proseminary if the local Board of Control and the
of Directors consider it necessary ; .

9. That Synod decline to grant the request asking it to pay ‘

- traveling expenses of two delegates from ‘Brazil ;

10. To refer the request of the congregation at Porto
(which is building a church and desires Synod to lend it a help;
hand) to the Board for Missions in South America.

World Congress of Lutherans in Leipzig and Eisenach.

_ The President’s action refusing to appoint delegates to atteng
this unionistic congress was sustained.

Foreign Missions.
(Report of the Board, Condensed. Germ. Rep., p. 108.)

The resolutions of the 1920 convention at Detroit authorizing
calling of a Director of Foreign Missions was carried out by calling
Vice-President F, Brand. He has since visited our missions in In d
and China. He attends to the official correspondence with the mi
sionaries and carries out Synod’s resolutions with regard to 0
Foreign Missions. Besides, he is constantly at work delivering leg
tures on Foreign Missions, writing articles for our periodicals, ef
It is also planned to have him give courses of lectures on miss
at our seminaries.

India.

During the past three years all the restraints against our. missia
aries have been removed. . Accordingly 11 candidates and 3 pas
one of whom had previously served in India, were called into this
Two of these brethren are from Australia. A teacher and super
intendent for the Mountain Home was secured. Also four fema

“missionary helpers were sent over. The medical mission suppo
“ by our ladies’ societies was enlarged. Dr. Doederlein, of Chic: