LCMS Convention Proceedings St. Louis, Missouri — 1929, Page 89

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92 Proceedings of Thirty-Fourth Regular Convention,

C. Quinney, Wis.
We recommend that the Board for Indian

Mission be instructed
to continue mission-work at Quinney.

D. Tomah, Wis.

Your Committee recommends that the mission board be instructed
to call a missionary for Tomah. Since the work at this Place can
be combined with a small mission of the Southern Wisconsin Dis-
trict, the mission-board of this District has agreed to bear half of
the expense.

E. Sherman Institute, Arlington, Cal.

We recommend —

1. That our Board for Indian Missions be encouraged to continue
the work in Southern California and that $125 per annum be allowed
for this work;

2. That our Board -of Directors be empowered to allow the neces-
sary funds if the erection of a chapel becomes absolutely necessary,

F. Yakima Reservation.

We recommend that $2,500 be granted for the proposed mission
on the Yakima Reservation. ‘

G. Survey among the Indians.

We recommend that Synod instruct its Board for Indian Mis-
sions to make a survey among the Indians of the United States and
Canada with a view of expanding the work among the natives of these
countries and that the amount of money necessary for this work be
left to the discretion of the Board of Directors.

We further recommend that the sum of $22,900 per annum asked
for by the Board be granted. If the dormitory is enlarged, the salary
for a teacher and for board of children must be provided for. This
would involve a sum of $2,300.

These recommendations were adopted, with the following
changes : —

1. Instead of B,2 it was decided to build a chapel at Oneida.

2. All building operations of the Indian Mission Board are to
be placed under the supervision of the Board of Directors.

Jewish Mission.
(Report of Board.)

Two new departures in this enterprise of Synod are to be noted.
Since November 1, 1926, Mrs. Bertha Ritter, a convert secured
through your Jewish Mission in this city, has been employed as
helper. From the subjoined report it appears that she has labored
with truly admirable diligence and exemplary faithfulness. The

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nd innovation to be recorded is a Yiddish Mission pamphlet,
a ith Isroel, written by your missionary, Pastor N. Friedmann.
Behe-e™ es of this pamphlet have been printed to date. One member
Fort Board Mr. John Burmeister of St. Mark’s Church, has been
ail to our eternal home. The vacancy occasioned by his recent
departure has not been filled.

Your Board found it necessary to add $25 monthly to the salaries
of both Missionary Friedmann and Mrs. Bertha Ritter.

Your Board recommends the following resolutions for adoption:

Resolved that the work of Jewish Mission be carried on from
the same quarters which have served for this work for the past

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ree peselved that no action be taken with reference to the publica-
tion of an English pamphlet in behalf of Jewish Mission.

Resolved that several students in our seminaries prepare them-
selves specially for the work of mission among the J ews, since Mis-
sionary Friedmann is the only man employed in this field.

Resolved to commence mission-work among the Jews in other
large cities of our country.

Summary of work done. — Missionary N. Friedmann, April 1926
to April 1929: 1. 150 sermons were preached before a total of 2696
persons, 8 sermons and 33 lectures were delivered in behalf of J ewish
Mission. — 2. 1367 Jewish families were visited; 1142 mission inter-
views were held in Jewish homes. — 3. 1415 Jews interviewed the
missionary either in the chapel or at his home. — 4. 402 New Testa-
ments, 598 Catechisms, 267 tracts, 3220 copies of Sche-erith Isroel
were distributed gratis. — 5. 482 New Testaments were sold to Jews,
418 loaned on deposit of the purchase price of the book. — Mrs. Bertha
Ritter, November 1926 to April 1929: 1. Called on 10,308 Jewish
families; gained admission with 2104; induced 95 families to grant
Pastor Friedmann a hearing in their homes. — 2. Delivered one lec-
ture in behalf of Jewish Mission. —-3. Distributed gratis 264 tracts,
1287 Catechisms, 7057 copies of Sche-erith Isroel.

The Guide of Israel bless the work of mission among the Jews!

Furthermore, President R. Kretzschmar had submitted the fol-
lowing overture concerning a Jewish mission in St. Louis: —

The Synod is respectfully requested to instruct its Board for
Jewish Missions to open a mission in St. Louis if conditions are
found auspicious.

St. Louis has a large Jewish population, among which so far
very little mission-work has been done by Christian denominations.
Some Jewish converts are found in various Lutheran churches of
this city. Several years ago a very prominent newspaper man,
Mr. Alexander Schaap, became a faithful member here of one of