LCMS Convention Proceedings St. Louis, Missouri — 1932, Page 239

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Ey. Luth. Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States. 1932. 939

Your Committee recommends that the Treasurer of Synod publish
monthly in the Witness and Lutheraner the accumulated amount of
remittances from each District Treasurer.”

Synod adopted these recommendations.

Report of the Board of Support.

(Support of Professors, Pastors, Teachers, and Their Widows
and Orphans.)

(Memorial 605.)
The undersigned Board respectfully submits to the Ven. Synod
its report for the years 1929, 1980, and 1931.

Appreciation.

Under the guidance and protection of our heavenly Father your
Board, in the last three years, held its regular meetings and at all
times enjoyed the harmonious and fraternal cooperation not only of
our thirty District boards and certain officials of the European Free
Church, but also of a number of mission boards and a great many
pastors and other brethren. We wish to extend our hearty thanks
to all our friends who assisted us in the difficult task of gathering
the necessary information concerning the applicants.

Regulations.

Guided by the principles laid down and accepted by the conven-
tions of 1914 (Bericht, 168 ff.) and 1923 (Bericht, 179. 180. 184), we
have made every effort to deal justly and fairly with all applicants
and to safeguard the interests of both the petitioners and the Synod.
We do not at the present time favor the adoption of radical changes
in the method of support.

There is a certain group of needy pastors and teachers which is
not mentioned in the regulations. Since the depression has set in,
their number has increased. We are referring to those men who,
strictly speaking, do not come under the regulations because they
were not compelled to resign because of old age or-illness, but were
asked by their congregation or by the officials of our Synod to tender
their resignation for other reasons. Some of these men are in good
standing and eligible to be called into another congregation. Under
present conditions they are unable to find employment and are in
financial distress. It has been our policy after careful investigation
to recommend these brethren to the General Relief Board for tem-
porary help or to make a special emergency allowance from our funds.

Statistics.

The volume of our work has been steadily growing, as may be
learned from our reports in the Statistical Year-book. The rapid
increase of the demands made on our funds in the last fifteen years,