LCMS Convention Proceedings St. Louis, Missouri — 1929, Page 92

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Ey. Luth. Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States. 1929. 97

ally parsonages also ought to be purchased or built. This
be a great saving for Synod, as at present much money is used

t, which otherwise would be saved. Our board is asking for

ly appropriation of $10,000 for the next three years for building
se and that this sum be placed into that part of the budget

May I refer you to the two-column article by Pastor Kuntz in the Lu-
7 iheran Witness of June 11 for an up-to-date report of the work in
Braille. You will see from that report not only the large propor-
" tions which it has taken on, but also the blessing resting upon this
“parti cular mission endeavor of our Church,

- But the work in Braille is not the only work that is being done
for the blind. As this report by Pastor Kuntz indicates, our board
has also undertaken the publication of a quarterly in Moon type.
This is now being published in 300 copies and, like the Messenger,

of feeler, to see whether a regular publication in German Braille
would meet the needs in that country. There is at Present no
periodical of a conservatively Christian nature for the blind in
Germany. That is another large field for our work among the blind.
. The budget requirements for the mission among the blind will un-
doubtedly increase regularly from year to year, and as our requests
for this particular work have in the past been very cheerfully granted,
we have no doubt that the expansion of this mission will meet the
whole-hearted support of Synod.

We are also planning, if the funds and men are available, to
extend farther the mission among the deaf. The fields into which
men ought to be placed in the near future are Texas and the South-
eastern States. That would take two additional men. Our mis-
sionary who is working in Canada is urgently requesting our board
to place a full-time man into the provinces from Winnipeg west,
That would require, in addition to salary and rent, perhaps $1,000
in traveling expenses, at least the first year, somewhat less the suc-
ceeding years, Iowa, which is now being served by the missionaries
in St. Paul and Omaha, ought soon to have a full-time man.

Committee No. 10 brought in the following resolutions concern-
ing these missions: — ,

1. That these missions be allowed $55,450 annually for current
expenses, as requested by their board.

2. That the Mission to Deaf and Blind be allowed $10,000 an-
nually for building purposes.

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