LCMS Convention Proceedings St. Louis, Missouri — 1929, Page 97

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104 Proceedings of Thirty-Fourth Regular Convention

Ev. Luth. Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States. 1929. 105
v. .
ing to help to the extent of their ability,

money and men and with their prayers,

The estimated population of Africa
lion. Of these, about 48 million are Mo
population, including the Abyssinians an

both with their Bifts of # The plan is to send two missionaries, a white man and a colored
r The

building for each and a combination chapel-school would
: A ximately $10,000. In case a medical mission were to be
cost see with the station, this would call for an additional $10,000.

is between 1

35 and 185 »;
hammedans, mil.

The Chrigs:
d Copts, is abou vlan

t Ni ission would be defrayed proportionately by
That, according to the lowest estimate, leaves about 0 an se The me a a we missio is being done in our Negro Missions.
heathen. More than half of these, or about 50 million, have been, the various a of the Missouri Synod would be 85 per cent.
absolutely untouched by Christian missions. Their misery Cries to The propor
us for help.

May the Lord graciously use us unworthy people as instruments

in bringing about the fulfilment of His promise: — .

™ Miihivpia shall soon stretch out her hands unto God !

Resolved, That our Synod hereby express its hearty interest in
movement to carry the Gospel of Christ, the Savior of mankind,

the ne heathen in Africa and that it pledge to Synodical Conference

i a noportionate share of financial support.

Again, the Mohammedan peril is
Unless the Church of Christ awakes

least a few?

Again, the Lord has abundantly bless
We now have more than 1,345,000 souls. But in spite of this large
number we have not sent a single messenger of the Gospel to Africa,
From Cairo to the Cape, from Cape Verde on the west to Cape Guar.
dafui on the east coast, there is not a single spot where we have raised
the banner of God’s Word and Luther’s doctrine pure.

David, the Sweet singer of Israel, said:
stretch out her hands unto God.” Ps. 68, 31 Here i

. 68, 31. ere Is a promise con.
cerning the conversion of the inhabitants of Ethiopi

1a. Surely we
wish to have a part in this blessed work,

Do the Africans want us? The idea that the heathen are stand-
ing on tiptoe, waiting for the Christian missionary to come, is gen-
erally wrong. But hear what a Lutheran missionary says who traveled
through the Chari-Chad country in Central Africa several years ago,
An African chief offered him 1,000 franks for a New Testament in the
language which he could read. At another place the chief of the city
met him at the city gate, saying: “I and my people have been looking

down this road five years, waiting for a man to come and tell us how
to talk to Allah.”

ed the Synodical Conference,

An unprinted memorial advocated a plan for systematic mis-
sion education in all congregations in Synod. This was looked into
ty ae committee also considered letters from our Australian
brethren and a committee report submitted to the Synod of Australia,
asking that Synod cooperate with them in establishing mission-work
in the Dutch East Indies and that a representative of Synod be sent
to Australia to strengthen the bonds of Christian unity and fellow-
ship between their synod and ours, which representative could at
the same time confer with them about the establishment of such
a mission, which would be conducted jointly by the two church-bodies.
Concerning these matters the following report of Committee
as submitted to Synod: — :
Ne You Committee on F oreign Missions, charged with the con-
sideration of Overtures 131, 307, 312, and 13 (unprinted) and a peti-
tion of the brethren in Australia, recommends the adoption of the
ing resolutions : —
song note with joy and gratitude to the Lord that the work
of our Foreign Missions has prospered and expanded in India and
in China, and we pray that the Lord may graciously remove all
obstacles to the future expansion of the work, especially the dif-
ficulties that have arisen in China in consequence of political dis-
turbances.
2. We express our appreciation of the interést shown also by
sister synods, by societies, and individuals in the work of our Foreign
Missions, and we hope and pray that. love toward the Savior may
move all friends and patrons of our Foreign Missions to continue and
increase their activities in behalf of the glorious cause of spreading
the Gospel of salvation among the heathen, and we extend a vote of
sincere thanks to the director of our Foreign Missions, Dr. F, Brand,

ngdom of God, money is not the “big gun.”
e deciding question for us is: “What is the
His will is: “Go ye into
creature.” He has no-
the world called Africa.

The work should, of course, be begun in a modest way. Two ex-

plorers should be Sent to Africa. There are four prospective fields
which the Prospectors might visit: 1. the country between the Chari
and the Logone (French Equatorial Africa); 9, Liberia; 3. the

Belgian Congo; 4. the country of the Galangue in Angola (Portu-
guese). The passage from New York to Liberia is $935.