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LCMS Convention Proceedings St. Louis, Missouri — 1926, Page 104

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104 Proceedings of Thirty-Third Regular Convention,

rented buildings, which annually requires a large sum; and at that
these buildings are not adequate. Since we have no Church Exten-
sion Fund for our Foreign Mission work, we would request that the
first $300,000 raised in this collection be designated for Foreign
Missions and be placed at the disposal of the Foreign Mission Board.
At this point we wish to present a letter which our missionaries have
addressed to Synod and in which they warmly express this request : —

“The members of the General Conference of your India Mission,
assembled in biennial conference in Krishnagiri, August 19—29, 1925,
send hearty greetings to the Delegate Synod assembling in St. Louis.
We pray that God’s choicest blessings may rest upon your delibera-
tions. It is one of the real regrets of your foreign missionaries that
they very seldom have the opportunity of participating in the in-

‘gpiring conventions of Delegate and District Synods.

“May we be permitted, first of all, to offer our hearty thanks for
the interest and the solicitude which Synod has at all times exhibited
toward our work in India. The work is your work, the duty to per-
form which has been imposed upon you by the Lord God. And the
work at all times does demand and deserve your vigilant attention
and regard.

“In order to help ensure a still greater measure of attention, may
we point out to the Hon. Delegate Synod that the work of your India
Mission has grown at an enormous rate, wherefore also its require-
ments have increased in proportion. We are in need of money, of
buildings, above all of a constantly larger number of missionaries.
Our work is extending in all directions; its limits are the limits im-
posed by our lacks. Doors are open to us everywhere; only the in-
sufficient number of men prevents us from entering these doors. The
missionary finds no pleasure in denying, as he must by the compulsion
of circumstances, the Christian Gospel to many who ask for instruc-
tion and reception. Some missionaries are living in inadequate rented
quarters injurious to their health; many important buildings re-
quired for the extension of educational facilities used in direct con-
nection with our religious work must be erected. All this requires
money in increasing amounts. We regret that we cannot begin enu-
merating all our needs; -the space at our command will not permit it.

“May we beg Synod, then, to do all in its power to supply the
missionaries so necessary for our work, to take steps that adequate
funds be provided, so that no lack of funds at least will stop our
progress. We dare to believe that no other. synodical mission is in
greater need of energetic help. And may we especially ask that the
whole Church pray for us, that the kingdom of Satan may suffer
greater and greater losses and the coming of the kingdom of God be
hastened. (Signed:) R. W. Goerss, Secretary to General Conference.”