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LCMS Convention Proceedings St. Louis, Missouri — 1935, Page 145

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Ev. Luth. Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States. 1935. 145

financial obligation be continued until the next convention of Synod
in 1935. .

In a meeting of the Board of Directors of the Atlantic District
with Dr. F. Pfotenhauer, President of the Synod, which took place on
November 15, 1934, it was

Resolved, That the District declare its willingness to supervise
and manage the Immigrant and Seamen’s, the Jewish and the Foreign-
tongue Missions as Synod’s agent on the following conditions: —

a, That at no time the District be responsible for the subsidies
or other financial obligations over against these missions;

b. That any subsidies paid by Synod to these missions be not
considered paid to the District by the Synod.

The following is a quotation from the minutes of that meeting:
“After a thorough discussion of the situation, especially in view of
the tremendous Home Mission program of the Atlantic District,
Dr. Pfotenhauer conceded that the position taken by the Atlantic Dis-
trict was justified by the circumstances and recommended that the
District so inform Synod.” ;

Concluding remarks: - Since the work of all these missions has
been taken over by the Atlantic District for supervision, the cost has
been reduced by approximately $9,000.. Despite this fact expansion
in the Foreign-tongue Missions has been carried out. It has been
the policy of the Board of Directors of the District to introduce
English services in the foreign-tongue churches and thus endeavor
to secure the future of these congregations.

The same matter was brought before Synod in the report of the
Board of Directors of Synod. (Memorial 601, B, 2, p. 213.) Com-
mittee 9 reported on this matter as follows: —

1. Synod’s Board of Directors reports that it came to an agree-
ment with the Atlantic District Board in regard to the supervision
and the carrying on of the Foreign-tongue, Immigrant and Seamen’s,
and Jewish missions in the Atlantic District. Your Committe rec-

-ommends that Synod endorse the action of the Board of Directors.

2. In Memorial 601, § 2, page 218, the Board of Directors reports:
“The Atlantic District Board favors the arrangement that the present
members of the Immigrant Mission Board gradually be replaced by
members of the Board of Directors and that the charter be changed
accordingly. They also ask that the income from the property go to
the treasury of the District for the conduct of this mission.”

Your Committee recommends that the action of Synod’s Board
of Directors be endorsed and that said Board shall be empowered,
and hereby is empowered, to effect a change of the charter under which
the Immigrant Mission Board has been operating if the Board deems
this necessary for the best interests of this mission.

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