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114 Proceedings of Thirty-Third Regular Convention,

Synod to appropriate $50,000 to obtain the necessary property in
Mexico City, so that our Lutheran Church may find a home there
and God’s Word and Luther’s doctrine pure be spread still farther
throughout Mexico.

This petition was supported by the Board for Home Missions in
North America.

The following report of Committee 7 was adopted: —

“The Texas Board of Missions petitions Synod to appropriate
$50,000 for the purchase of property needed for our mission in Mexico
City in order that our Lutheran Church may at that place find a home
for the expansion of God’s Word and Luther’s doctrine.

Your Committee recommends that a sum up to $50,000 be appro-
priated, provided that all questions of property and title can be
adjusted in conformity with the laws of Mexico, and provided that
our missionary at that place be not hampered in his activities by,
governmental restrictions.

The sum named should be advanced by our General Church Ex-

- tension Treasurer to the Texas Church Extension Treasury, which
office will invest the money in Mexico City as conditions call for,
asking the congregations to refund the money jn accord with their
ability.

Foreign-Tongue Missions.

Report of the Board. Abridged.
(German Report, p. 195.)

While unable to report any external growth, the Board could
report good internal growth, which manifests itself in greater zeal
for the work of the local congregations, for missions, and in increased
membership of existing congregations. During the past two years
two congregations (Rev. F. Sattelmeier, Polish, Detroit, and Rev. A.
Daniel, Slovak, Detroit) became self-supporting. The reasons for not
extending the work are growing Socialism and materialism, lack of
workers, lack of means.

At present a number .of foreign-tongue students are attending
our institutions, two of whom have signified their willingness to enter
the service of our Foreign-tongue Missions. Your Board, however,
is face to face: with the problem of finding ways to support these
gtudents, since it does not feel privileged, without special resolution
of Synod, to subsidize them from the Foreign-tongue Mission Trea-
sury. The sum required amounts to some $1,000 a year.

The budget for 1926 provided for $18,000. This sum is necessary
to defray the salaries and rents of the present missionaries. We have

_ been requested to reassume the Persian Mission. Lack of means
precluded a favorable answer. To do so would require $1,500 over
the budget for 1926.

The Polish Mission is carried on by four missionaries in Col-