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166 Proceedings of Thirty-Sixth Regular Convention,

this splendid offer, unparalleled in our annals, but, moved by th
example of self-sacrificing zeal, instruct this Board to place the othe

yet inaugurated a change, feeling that the question has not been
studied sufficiently to warrant the introduction of a different policy,
(Cf. Proceedings of 1932, p, 147.) However, we have always concen-

trated “on the training of native church-workers,” though heathen
Students are not excluded,

In October, 1934, forty years had elapsed since the commissioning
of Missionaries Naether and Mohn as our first emissaries to the
heathen Population of India. The event was duly observed by our
Missionary Conference in India and by our church in St. Charles,
Mo., where the first commissioning took place. May the missionary
zeal of our pious fathers and of our first consecrated workers and the
increase which. the Lord go 8raciously gave be powerful incentives
urging us to attain greater heights in this holy, divinely commanded
enterprise! — THE Boarp or Forzian Misstong,

, , W. Arnpr, Recording Secretary,

Report of Committee 13:—

1. We recommend that Synod declare its gratitude to God, who
In spite of the order forbidding further expansion go richly blessed
; labors of oyy Missionaries in India and China that in India
2,707 baptized and 904 communicant members were added during the
last triennium, while the figures foy China are 920 baptized and 260
communicant members, an increase Proportionally greater perhaps
than that of any other mission conducted by Synod.

2. We recommend that Synod commend the action of our mis-

sionaries in China, who refused to register our schoolg because such
registration implies idol-worship,