LCMS Convention Proceedings St. Louis, Missouri — 1923, Page 38

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88 ~ Proceedings of Thirty-Second Regular Meeting,

generous .and cheerful help and to request them to continue
support in future ; ; : é
, .3. Earnestly to beseech all congregations to support our enti
mission-work with prayers and Christian generosity and in the ga:3%
way to promote also the Foreign Missions in order a) to clear a
deficit of the treasury, b) to make possible the speedy Purchase
sites and the erection of needed. buildings, and c) to enable the m .
sion itself to be extended energetically and soundly;

4. To ask pastors, teachers, and congregations to do every?!
in their power to acquaint themselves with our foreign Missiong
to arouse, promote, and preserve a genuine interest in this wor!
the Lord, and to recommend that pastors and congregations arr;
for mission-study hours besides the regular mission-festivals and use
especially the Epiphany season for thig purpose, that teachers fay ‘
iarize their pupils in schools with our missions, and that the Boar
of Foreign Missions and the Director of Foreign Missions provi
mission-tracts in German and English in addition to what is py
lished in our periodicals ; .

, 5. To ask the ladies’ aid and the young ladies’ societies to m

it a point systematically to work and provide for the continuation’
and expansion of the medical mission, mountain homes, and orphan:
ages and to suggest to congregations, Sunday-schools, and other
organizations that they support a native mission worker or a pupil®
of a boarding-school. .

It was reported at synod that some converted heathen who w
formerly served by Leipzig missionaries had requested the service
of.our missionaries since the successors of the Leipzig. missions ,
did not instruct and serve them in a truly Lutheran spirit. They:
urgently requested our Director of Missions to come to India and¥
investigate the matter in order that further steps may be taken. 4

Synod hereupon resolved to-entrust this entire matter to theg
Board of Foreign Missions. ‘

The missionaries who attended the convention at Fort W;
were presented to Synod, and their faithful services under great diffix:
gulties were acknowledged by a vote of thanks. The Director of
Foreign Missions was instructed to extend Synod’s. thanks to the

Walther League at its coming convention for the generous support of
eleven missionaries, —

Deaf-Mute Missions.
(Report of the Board, Condensed. Germ. Rep., p. 114.)
Work among the deaf-mutes was begun twenty-five years ago.’%
At present it Has been ‘extended over the entire United States.

Mission-stations, 90; organized congregations, 10. During the past,
triennium 15 missionaries labored in this mission. A large missio’