# Der Lutheraner_St. Louis Missouri_16. Januar 1917_S27
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21. War Distress in Germany.

Balance on January 1, 1916 ....... $11000.10
Receipts ....... 1724.39
$12724.49
Paid out at the order of the Commission ....... $6324.58
By transfer ....... 10.00
6334.58
Balance on January 1, 1917 ....... $6389.91

NB. Other war-distress items were paid out as follows: To Treasurer Aug. Lange for war distress in Albania $1.00; for war distress in Poland 15.00; to Treasurer Beer for children in distress in Germany, including the milk fund 48.38; war distress in East Prussia 7.38; orphans in the European Free Church 23.96; widows and orphans in Germany 576.76; to Treasurer Wechsung for war distress in Australia 11.80; to Treasurer Kunstmann for oppressed Germans in Brazil 15.92 and 21.63.

22. Jubilee.

Balance on January 1, 1916 ....... $ 860.55
Receipts, including transfers from the Church Building Fund ....... 22945.80
By further transfer ....... 34.97
$23841.32
Paid out at the order of the Commission ....... $3675.39
The above transfer ....... 34.97
3710.36
Balance on January 1, 1917 ....... $20130.96

Passed on directly

were the following items: orphanage in Addison $2.00; poor students 28.50; school in New Zealand (Treasurers Hoffmann and Wechsung) 559.58; institution for the blind in Jacksonville, Ill., 6.00; to Treasurer Kunstmann for Barfknecht family 200.00, poor college students in Porto Alegre 15.00, College in Porto Alegre 17.10, P. Busch's congregation 10.00, P. Gohlke 29.45; City Mission in Chicago 10.00; congregation in Pekin, China, 25.00, sent to Treasurer Rehwaldt; Concordia Publishing House 785.92; orphanage in Des Peres 7.00; P. H. Harting 28.62; to Treasurer Leonhardt for Christmas dinner in Ambur 25.00, Missionary Küchle 5.00, Lola Ellermann 15.00, women's mission 85.00, Girls' School in India 10.00, pupils in Nagercoil 105.02, for the blind Samuel .15, school building in Bellampatti 20.00; — to the Holy Cross School 60.00; to Treasurer Genrich for Indian pupils 12.00, for rubber shoes 9.25; to Treasurer Engler for English Mission 36.21; to Treasurer Meyer for mission in North Dakota 10.00; to Treasurer Hörber for Thayer, Mo., 1.00; to Treasurer Schieferdecker for Isle of Pines 75.96, for Reno 5.75; to P. Pullmann for parsonage in Midland, S. Dak., 8.00; to Treasurer Schüttner for P. Bakkes' automobile 5.00; to Treasurer Schulze for the dormitory in Greensboro 1.00; to Treasurers Schulze and Schüttner for Million Dollar Fund 54.00, for Negro chapels 38.00, for chapel in Mansura 8.74; to Treasurer Aug. Lange for pastors' widows and orphans 4.00; to the Lutheran Immigrant Society for the Pilgrim House 48.09; to Concordia Teachers' College for gymnasium in River Forest 10.00; home for the aged in St. Louis .40; to Prof. Mezger for pianos in the St. Louis Seminary 4.00; City Mission in St. Louis 4.00; to Prof. Jesse for organ in Seward 57.51; Institution for the Deaf and Dumb in North Detroit 76.11; to the Commission for Deaf-Mute Mission for chapel in Minneapolis 1038.69; institution for the epileptic and feeble-minded in Watertown 191.28; home for the aged in Wauwatosa 5.00; Sanitarium in Wheat Ridge 116.67; to Treasurer Ölschlager for Züge's relatives 25.00.

Some accounts must remain open for various reasons and are included in the final balancing of the funds at the end of this report.

Bequests.

Balance on January 1, 1916 ....... $48811.94
Proceeds of the Stutz bequest ....... 304.55
Proceeds of the Raithel bequest ....... 939.71
Proceeds of all other bequests ....... 1436.60
Mohr bequest, including its proceeds ....... 634.76
Nikel bequest, including its proceeds ....... 3075.00
$55202.56

Expenditures.

For Home Mission (retained in the treasury):
Mohn bequest ....... $350.00
Savings of a pastor's wife ....... 50.00
Steinfath bequest ....... 2.38
Dierksen bequest ....... 25.00
Endowment Fund ....... 9.10
$436.48
For poor students (paid out to Prof. Mezger, Prof. Pieper and Prof. Biedermann):
Heitmüller bequest ....... $ 50.00
Northern Friend of Missions (gift for poor students) ....... 50.00
Weisbrodt bequest ....... 32.90
Scheel bequest ....... 25.00
Pötsch bequest (to Treasurer Lange) ....... 50.00
Starke bequest ....... 50.00
Tiarks bequest ....... 250.00
Willner bequest (retained in the treasury) ....... 162.41
Bequests for poor students (St. Louis and Springfield) ....... 100.00
Burke bequest ....... 25.00
Müller bequest ....... 20.00
815.31
To the Pastors' and Teachers' Widows' and Orphans' Fund (to Treasurer Lange):
Raithel bequest ....... 939.71
For Negro Mission (to Treasurer Schüttner):
Scheel bequest ....... 12.50
For Indian Mission (to Treasurer Genrich):
Scheel bequest ....... 12.50
25.00
$2216.50
Otherwise accounted for ....... 29.54
2246.04
Balance on January 1, 1917 ....... $52956.52

Balancing of the Funds (Balance).

Deficit.
Synodical Treasury ....... 66996.22
Building Fund ....... 49071.10
New building in Springfield ....... 369.50
P. C. F. Lehenbauer ....... 100.00
Property in Kanabec ....... 134.97
Church Building Fund ....... 3708.05
War distress in London ....... 163.59
A bequest on account ....... 14.86
Another bequest on account ....... 2.00
Pueblo ....... 1354.09
Stocks & Bonds ....... 31692.42
Addison notes ....... 20000.00
Final balancing through cash balance ....... 19116.68
192723.48

Balance.
Aged pastors ....... 2005.56
Australia and New Zealand ....... 399.16
Classroom building in St. Paul ....... 7532.18
Mission in Brazil ....... 6660.33
Borrowed on notes ....... 18616.10
Brauer collection ....... 7750.00
Emigrant Mission ....... 124.85
European Free Church ....... 19816.23
Fort Wayne college farm ....... 30000.00
Foreign-language missions ....... 2094.10
Heathen Mission ....... 2424.69
Mountain Home ....... 4767.45
Home Mission ....... 3946.16
Jubilee ....... 20130.96
Jewish Mission ....... 1961.64
War distress in Germany ....... 6389.91
Bequests ....... 52956.52
German Red Cross ....... 1302.75
Deaf-Mute Mission ....... 2285.47
Vogel bequest ....... 956.01
Walther Fund ....... 2.02
Subsidy for aged pastors ....... 601.39
192723.48

St. Louis, Mo., January 8, 1917.
E. Seuel,
Treasurer of the General Synod.

We have audited the books of the General Treasurer of the Missouri Synod for the fiscal year ending December 31, 1916, and hereby certify that the above report is correct and agrees with the books of the Synod.

St. Louis, Mo., January 10, 1917.
Rodway & Stone,
Certified Public Accountants,
Missouri.

From the above report of our esteemed Treasurer it appears that, unfortunately, a shortfall shows itself in our principal funds, the Synodical Treasury, the Building Fund and the General Home Mission Fund. The Synodical Treasury closes with a debt of $67,000 and has gone down by about $9000 since last year. In the Building Fund there is still lacking about $60,000 to cover the appropriation made by the last General Synod. And the Home Mission Fund received only $37,831.11 instead of $60,000.

The budget for the year 1917 now follows. It is as follows:

Synodical Treasury ....... $190,000.00
Building Fund ....... 90,000.00
General Home Mission ....... 60,000.00
Heathen Mission ....... 40,000.00
Mission in Brazil and Argentina ....... 25,000.00
Deaf-Mute Mission ....... 10,000.00
Foreign-language missions ....... 7,000.00
Indian Mission ....... 6,000.00
Emigrant Mission ....... 3,000.00
Mission in New Zealand ....... 2,000.00
$433,000.00