LCMS Convention Proceedings St. Louis, Missouri — 1932, Page 108

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142 Proceedings of Thirty-Fifth Regular Convention,

our opinion this reduction was too drastic.
are in real distress. Could not the abov.
10 per cent.? We kindly request it.

Some of our missionarieg
e amount be increased by

Section IT.
Amounts required for new work: —

It is impossible for us to make an e
work because we cannot tell what new fie
plore and occupy.

It would be well if the Board of F
have a tentative appropriation of $2,5
standing being that only such an amou
shall actually be required for new wor

stimate of the cost of new
lds we may be asked to ex-

oreign-tongue Missions could
00 for new work, the under-
nt of this sum may be used as
k. The Board requests this.

Section III.
Amounts required for building operations: —
The Board of Foreign-tongue Missions doe
propriation for buildings.
projects.
Wishing and praying for the Lord’
Synod, especially on its mission-work,

Yours in the Lord,

THE Boarp or Foreion-Toncur Missions.
F. Marxwortu, Chairman.

$ not ask for an ap-
It has no authority to finance building

8 blessings on the work of

Regarding this report, Committee 19 submitted the following : —
Since Synod has adopted the re
Overture 601, 8a, page 17
Missions and to transfer
Districts in which the wor
dation to Synod: —

port of Committee 8 pertaining to
2, to eliminate the Board for F oreign-tongue
these missions to the mission boards of the
k is done, we make the following recommen-

That Synod thank the members of this board for their faithful
services during the past triennium.

Synod adopted this recommendation.

With regard to Negro Missions, Committee 12 reported: —

; The Negro Missions are carried on by our Synod in conjunction
with the other members of the Synodical Conference. Hence no report
was presented except the financial report.

Since Synod has decided that the N. egro Missions be included in
the synodical budget and that the budget for 1933 be fixed by the
Fiscal Conference, we have no recommendation to make.

We wish, however, to commend the cooperation of the Mission
Board with the chairman of the Committee on Missions of the Board

of Directors in connection with the mission survey and hope that this
relation may continue to exist.

Synod adopted this report.

Ev. Luth. Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States. 1932. 148

Report of Board of Foreign Missions.
(Memorial 309.)

In making our report to Synod, we can state, first of all, that,
owing to the grace of God, our mission enterprises in India and China
were permitted to continue and, on the whole, to develop normally
during the last three years. In China, it is true, the government has
adopted a hostile attitude toward the teaching of religion in the
schools, but our schools, we are grateful to say, have not as yet been
jnterfered with. The civil war in China in 19380 affected our missions
and brought peril to our workers in Shihnanfu; but the kindness of
our heavenly Father protected our emissaries. No personal injury or
lasting harm resulted. The terrible flood of 1931 in the Yangtze
Valley proved a setback in some ways and did considerable damage to
our property in Hankow; but, on the other hand, it increased our
mission opportunities so that many persons, refugees who had come to
Hankow, were reached by the Gospel, converted, and baptized (386 in
number at this writing), with whom otherwise we should not have
come in contact.

Our missionaries, so we say with sincere thanks to the Head of
the Church and to them, have faithfully labored in their blessed work
under the general supervision of our Director of Foreign Missions.
As in former years, so also in this triennial report, we have to deplore
the loss of several able, consecrated workers who on account of their
own illness or that of some member of their family were compelled to
leave our service. The death, on April 17, 1929, of Missionary E. L.
Arndt, the founder of our missions in China, was duly commented on
at the last convention of Synod.

As to the present status of our Foreign Missions in point of num-
bers of workers, native Christians, and stations, we shall, to save space,
confine ourselves to the most important figures, adding that the Sta-
tistical Year-book offers exhaustive information on all these points.
In India we have at present 13 stations, or centers, from which 145
congregations and 88 so-called teaching- and preaching-places are
served. Our male missionaries in India number 46. Other white
workers sent from here are two teachers, one doctor, one trained nurse,
and two deaconesses. Of Indian helpers in the same country our lists
show 3 pastors, 7 evangelists, 20 vicars, and 66 catechists. The total
number of Indian helpers in church and school is 347. Our baptized
members number 7,700, of whom 1,827 are communicants. Souls under
our care number 14,293. In our schools we have 5,694 pupils. To
make a comparison possible, we insert here the figures for 1921: Souls,
4,595; baptized members, 2,814; communicant members, 508; mis-
sionaries, 23; Indian workers, 214; pupils in all schools, 3,644.
A good deal of property is owned by our church-body in India, which
is valued at about $156,000. ,