Part II, Chapter XIX — Recent Development (1909-12)
Dr. and Mrs. Harpster left Rajahmundry on furlough, April 7, 1909, and after having visited the Rev. Frisby D. Smith in Tokyo, Japan, they crossed the Pacific Ocean, land- ing at San Francisco, and reaching Redlands, Cal., in June, 1909, where they were entertained by a friend until they came East to attend the convention of the General Council in Minneapolis that fall. Thereafter Dr. Harpster travelled and delivered addresses in the interest of the General Council's Telugu Mission. He was an exceptionally able speaker and his presentations won the interest of a large circle of sup- porters. While on a tour of the churches in Ohio, in January, 191 1, he contracted a severe cold and hastened back to his wife who was visiting her brother, the Rev. Henry E. Jacobs. D, D., at Mt. Airy, Philadelphia. There he died on February i, 191 1, after a brief illness. The funeral service was held in the Schaeffer-Ashmead Memorial Church, Mt. Airy, Philadelphia, on February 3, the General Secretary of the Board of Foreign Missions of the General Synod, the Rev. L. B. Wolf, D. D., and the General Secretary of the Board of Foreign Missions of the General Council, the Rev. George Drach, delivering the addresses. The service was conducted by the Rev. Prof. J. Fry, D. D., and the Rev. A. S. Fichthorn, D. D. His body was interred in the cemetery at Gettysburg, Pa.
The following is a brief sketch of his life up to the time of his becoming a missionary of the General Council.
John Henry Harpster, the son of George and Frances Harpster, was born at Centre Hall, Pa., April 27, 1844. His education was interrupted by the Civil War, through which he served. He was captain and stafif officer of the Second Corps, Army of the Potomac, and twice was danger- ously wounded in battle. After the war he resumed his
RECENT DEVELOPMENT (1909-12) 371 studies at Selinsgrove and Gettysburg, Pa., preparing for the holy ministry. He was ordained in 1871, and went at once as a foreign missionary of the General Synod to its Telugu Mission in India, in which he served until 1876. Impaired health led to his return to the United States, and he served congregations in Ellsworth and Hayes City, Kan., Trenton, N. J., and Canton, O. He married Julia, daughter of Pro- fessor Michael Jacobs, of Gettysburg, Pa., in 1882. In 1893 he returned with his wife to India and served as a missionary in the Guntur and Sattenappalli Taluks of the General Synod's Mission until 1901, when he came home on furlough. The next year he entered the service of the Board of Foreign Missions of the General Council.^ 1 The following resolutions were passed by the Board at its meeting in March, 1911: Whereas God in his Providence removed by death on the first day of February, 191 1, at Mt. Airy, Philadelphia, Reverend John Henry Harpster, D. D., our missionary on furlough in America, and Whereas Reverend John Henry Harpster, D. D., one of the great foreign missionaries of the Lutheran Church in America, began his career as a foreign missionary in 1872, when the Board of Foreign Missions of the General Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the United States sent him to its Telugu Mission at Guntur, India, where he labored until 1876, returning to this Mission, after having served congregations in the United States, in 1893, for a second term lasting eight years, and then at the urgent call of the Board of Foreign Missions of the General Council of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in North America, went to its Telugu Mission at Rajahmundry, India, in 1902, with the special titles and commission of "Temporary Director" and Chairman of the Executive Committee, then the highest office in the Mission, to re-organize it under new rules and regulations, and having fulfilled his mission and resigned his special office and position, returned to America in 1909, where he was spending his furlough in the service of our Board which had called him to return to Rajahmundry as a regular missionary, and Whereas, while he served our Board in its India Mission, he labored faithfully and well, erected new and adequate buildings for the Boys' Central School at Rajahmundry, extricated our mission property from the confusion of uncertain titles, improved the mission plant, and won many converts to Christian- ity, and
Whereas, while on furlough in America, in 1909-1910, he attracted the interest of many by his addresses and efforts, spread information, deepened the sense of our foreign mission obligation, and won the prayers and consecration of those who learned to know him; Be it Resolved, that we, the Board of Foreign Missions of the General Council, express our high appreciation of his long and successful career as a foreign missionary in India, and especially of his service, both in our Telugu Mission and at home in our churches, and our sense of the great loss we have sustained in his death, and Resolved, that we express our deep sympathy to his widow whom we commend to the tender love of our Heavenly Father, through Jesus Christ, His Son, Our Lord.
After his removal from Rajahmundry- Dr. Schmidt had Hved in retirement at Kotagiri, Nilgiri Hills, India, where he died on March 6, 1911, about a month after Dr. Harpster's death. His body was interred in the Basle Mission cemetery at Kotagiri.
The Mission Council in India adopted the following minute of appreciation
"Three men in the history of the Rajahmundry Mission have, in the eyes of the Church, stood out among their fel- lows. Of these, the first. Dr. C. F. Heyer, has long since been gathered to his fathers and his works do follow him. "The second was the Rev. Hans Christian Schmidt, D. D., who departed this hfe on March 6, 1911. Others in other places have given the salient facts of his life. Our endeavor shall be to fix the place of Dr. Schmidt in this Mission and the value of his services to it. He came first to Rajahmundry on August 4, 1870, when the only missionary to greet him was Father Heyer. Six months later Father Heyer, under the weight of many years, left the country never to return. The strength of the Mission then was 241 adult Christians living in nine villages, and nine teachers. The buildings were dilapidated and the Mission had but a slender hold on the in- terest and support of the Church at home. It was the most critical time in the entire history of the Mission, and during the first decennium a living martyrdom for its missionaries. But in spite of every discouragement Dr. Schmidt and his col- league remained at their posts of duty; and God mightily blessed their slender means, so that before the close of the decade another bungalow, a church and a house-boat had been added to the material equipment of the Mission, and the number of adherents had been more than doubled. It seem.s to us, that it was in this period that Dr. Schmidt rendered the most valuable service in his life. The temptation to leave the work amidst so much discouragement and apathy on the part of the Church that had inaugurated it can scarcely have been wanting; and had he left, the probability is very strong that the work would have been permanently abandoned and the foreign mission activity of the General Council diverted to
RECENT DEVELOPMENT (1909-12) 373 some other field. The credit of being the real founder or, at least, savior of the mission, belongs far more truly to him than to Father Heyer. The latter was a bird of passage; the former came to stay and give permanence to the work.
"In the eighties reinforcements began to come, and with their advent interest in the work grew at home. The path, therefore, became easier; but the economy and the careful expenditure Dr. Schmidt had been forced to practice in the first decade of his service adhered to him always. He was a wise buyer, a cheap builder, a shrewd manager; and much of the excellent property now owned by the Mission is the fruit of his foresight. As a fellow-missionary he was genial and easy to get along with. His long experience with new mis- sionaries, all of whom for a period of thirty years he was here to welcome, made him patient and sympathetic with them. He was quick to recognize merit and rejoiced in it for the sake of the Mission. His judgment was safe and his tenacity of purpose great. Connected for so many years with the Mission, there is scarcely a phase of its work to-day that does not, to a greater or less extent, bear his impress. After his withdrawal from the Mission he lived in dignified and contented retire- ment, dividing his time between his home on the hills and that of his daughter in the Breklum Mission. His failing health was quite obvious to his many friends throughout the last year of his life, and the end was quiet and peaceful. "The third of the three was the Rev. John Henry Harpster, D. D., whose connection with this Mission dated from 1902. That was a time of great difficulty, and the task set him was one of unusual responsibility, involving transfer and reor- ganization. Friction seemed inevitable. Frequently he had to shape his course to fit rules for which he had not been responsible; and the wonder is, that with such burdens on his shoulders, he succeeded as well as he did. Ninety-nine other men in a hundred would have failed utterly. Had his dis- position been less generous, his spirit less sanguine, his patience less lasting, he would have left the field in confusion worse confounded, instead of on the highroad to harmonious co- operation and general good-will. Arguments there were, to be sure, but through them all strongly pulsed the beat of a courteous man's warm friendship. As a missionary he was indefatigable, as a preacher eloquent and inspiring. He labored in season and out to inculcate self-support. Alto- gether this was a man to love. He left the work, worn out by his many burdens; and when the news of his passing came, there was not a heart in the Mission that was not the sadder for it."
Miss Agnes I. Schade came to the United States on furlough in 1909, leaving Rajahmundry June 26th, and arriving at New York on August 3d, that year. On account of an affliction of the eyes she was under treatment in Philadelphia for some time and was unable to do much travelling. Never- theless, she found opportunity before the expiration of her furlough to help the cause at home by a number of addresses at different places. Before the close of the year 19 10 she had returned to her work at Rajahmundry as the manager of the Girls' Central School. During her absence Dr. Amy B. Rohrer served temporarily as manager of the school.
Furloughs were given E. Neudoerffer in 1910-1911, R. Arps in 1911-1912, and H. E. Isaacson in 1912-1913. Neu- doerffer, with his wife and child, came to America by way of the Pacific Ocean and spent the most of his time in the United States and Canada delivering sermons and addresses, especially to German and German-English congregations, in order to arouse them to greater effort in behalf of foreign missions. He also succeeded in interesting a number of young pastors to such an extent that two recruits were secured and sent out with him to India, the Revs. Oscar V. Werner and F. W. Schaefer; and his younger brother, August, followed him a few months later. Arps spent a year in Luebeck, Germany, with his son and daughter, who were being educated there, before coming to America in May, 191 2, with his wife and daughter.
Among the more recent events of importance in the Mis- sion have been the erection of the Augustana Church at Samulkot, the gift of the Foreign Missionary Society of Augustana College and Seminary, Rock Island, 111., which
RECENT DEVELOPMENT (1909-12) 375 was consecrated on January 15, 191 1, while the Conference of missionaries and native workers was in session at Samulkot. The building cost $2700.
The same day that this new church was consecrated the sixth native Christian pastor, Pantagani Paradesi, was or- dained by the officers of the Ministerium in India, the Rev. H. E. Isaacson, D. D.,^ and the Rev. Karl L. Wolters. Pantagani Paradesi was born at Mahadevipatnam, Bhimawaram taluk. He attended the Boys' Central School at Rajahmundry, from which he was graduated, and then went to the Mission College at Guntur. After having served for a while as teacher in the Girls' Central School, he was added to the staff of teachers in the Boys' Central School, where he was at work when the call came to become the pastor of St. Paul's Church, Rajahmundry. He was installed as the native pastor of the congregation in Rajahmundry, under the super- vision of the missionary in charge, on Sunday, February 5, 191 1, by the Rev. C. F. Kuder, assisted by the Rev. R. Arps. Under the direction of Kuder the congregation became self- supporting and agreed to pay its pastor's salary.^ Selfgovernment, also, was introduced under a panchayet or council, consisting of the missionary in charge, the native pastor and five members of the native congregation. The membership of the congregation at the close of 19 10 was 356, exclusive of boarding-school children and teachers at- tending the Training School. Before Kuder returned to the United States in April, 1913, he nearly finished the preparation of the Telugu Lutheran Church Book, a translation of the Church Book of the General Council, not however including all of the hymns, the publication of which is an event of far-reaching significance in the history of the Mission.
One of the outstanding events of importance within the past few years was the erection of the Hospital for Women and Children at Halkett's Garden, about half-way between ^In 191 1 the Rev. H. E. Isaacson received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from Bethany College, Lindsborg, Kansas, in recognition of his long and faith- ful service as a foreign missionary.
* The pastor's salary is Rs. 40 ($13) a month.
376 THE TELUGU MISSION OF THE GENERAL COUNCIL Rajahmundry and Dowlaishwaram. This site, as we have already had occasion to narrate, was purchased in 1902, for the sum of $4500, and plans for a building had been drawn and approved by the Board in 1905, but they proved to be unsatisfactory and Dr. Woerner's furlough delayed the preparation of new plans until the year 1909, when they were finally approved by the Board in August of that year. Arps was appointed superintendent of construction. He secured the service of M. Ramanayya, a converted Brahmin, as contractor, and inasmuch as the women's missionary societies of the General Council had already gathered most of the funds needed, the building operations, once begun, made rapid progress. The corner-stone of the main building was laid on January 11, 1910, by Mrs. E. B. Elwin, the wife of the Collector of the Coconada district. The Collector delivered an address in English, and Missionary Arps an ad- dress in Telugu. After the buildings were completed, the Hospital was opened and dedicated on July 20, 191 1, the Collector of the District again taking part in the exercises. Concerning this occasion Dr. Woerner wrote: "At last we have realized our long-desired hospital. The formal opening day was a day of joy and gladness. Crowds of people were present. A portion of the second floor was reserved for Hindu ladies. It was remarkable how many attended this public function. Some years ago hardly one would have been present. The people, as they went about the place, were full of praise and admiration. On July 24th the sick were moved over from the nurses' quarters, where they had been kept temporarily, and filled the first large ward. The second is now filHng up with new patients. After years of cramping in small, incon- venient rooms, the work of arranging is a great pleasure. We feel very grateful to all who have worked so long and faith- fully to give us this abiding place for the sick." The Hospital buildings consist of a two-story main build- ing, a separate, one-story building used as a Maternity Ward, and a number of smaller buildings for use as kitchen, contagion ward, Eurasian and native helpers quar- ters and stables. They are built of stone with dressed
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RECENT DEVELOPMENT (1909-12) 377 stones at all angles of the buildings. The iron girders and steel beams used in the construction were shipped from England. The cost of the buildings was as follows: Hospital Main Building, $21,315; Isolation Ward, $500; Native Helpers' Quarters, $333; Morgue, $133; European Nurses' Quarters, $1000; Kitchen, $200; Stables, $166; Compound Wall, $533; Hospital Total, $24,180. Maternity Ward, $3533; Grand Total, $27,713. The Women's Missionary Society of the Pennsylvania Ministerium gathered and con- tributed one-half of the amount required to build the Main building, and the Women's Missionary Society of the Swedish Augustana Synod the other half. The Women's Missionary Society of the New York and New England Synod, assisted by the Women's Missionary Society of the Synod of Central Canada, paid for the Maternity Ward. A number of socie- ties and individuals provided the furniture of the hospital buildings, which cost $2900.
The growth of the medical work in our Mission has been truly remarkable. The total number of visits at the Dispen- sary in Rajahmundry during the year 1910 was 21,394. The number of new patients treated was 6488. In the temporary hospital 188 cases were treated, while 316 private patients were visited 1470 times. The dispensary minor operations numbered 140, the hospital general operations 100. The average daily attendance at the Rajahmundry Dispensary in 191 2, varied between fifty and ninety. Counting the rela- tives of patients probably one hundred people each day heard some message from God's Word in this Dispensary. A Dispensary was begun by Dr. Betty A. Nilsson in Dowlarshwaram in August, 191 1, which was open three afternoons each week. The number of patients in the Rajahmundry Hospital rose to 738 in 191 2. About Rs. 3000 ($1000) were received that year as medical fees.
After having demonstrated their unity of spirit and effort in the completion of the hospital without a cent of debt, and in other united work, the various synodical women's missionary societies felt that the time had arrived for a federation in one General Council Society. A prehminary step in this
378 THE TELUGU MISSION OF THE GENERAL COUNCIL direction was taken by a number of women who met in Minne- apolis and St. Paul, Minn., Friday and Saturday, September lo-ii, 1909, in connection with the convention of the General Council. They represented the various synodical societies, and resolved to recommend to their respective societies that a General Council society be organized. All of the synodical societies adopted this recommendation and sent delegates to the Federation Convention, held in connection with the meeting of the General Council, September 11-12, 191 1, in Trinity Church, Lancaster, Pa. A constitution was adopted and officers were elected as follows: President, Miss Laura V. Keck, Allentown. Pa.; Recording Secretary, Mrs. G. L. Eckman, Jamestown, N. Y. ; ^ Corresponding and Statistical Sec- retary, Mrs. Frank E. Jensen, Buffalo, N. Y.; Treasurer, Mrs. H. N. Miller, Columbus, O. ;2 Literature Secretary, Mrs. Charles L. Fry, Philadelphia, Pa.; Mission Study Chairman, Mrs. F. A. Kaehler, Buffalo, N. Y.; Life Membership Chairman, Mrs. L. K. Sanford, Lancaster, Pa.; Foreign Missions Chairman, Mrs. F. F. Fry, Rochester, N. Y.; Home Missions Chairman, Mrs. G. H. Schnur, St. Paul, Minn.; Porto Rico Mission Chairman, Mrs. A. E. Anderson, St. Paul, Minn.; India Lace Chairman, Mrs. A. Woll, Philadelphia, Pa.; Mission Exhibit Chairman, Mrs. S. C. Weiskotten, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Organ- izing Chairman, Mrs. M. J. Bieber, Toronto, Can.; Inner Mission Chairman, Mrs. A. J. D. Haupt, Albert Lea, Minn.; Junior Work Chairman, Miss Bertha Ziebarth, Frankford, Ind. "The Lutheran Mission Worker," which for many years had been pubHshed by the society of the Pennsyl- vania Ministerium, under the editorship of Miss Emma A. Endlich and Mrs. Charles L. Fry, was made the official organ of the General Council Society and Mrs. Fry was continued as the editor of this excellent quarterly. The Augustana Society publishes a separate quarterly in Swedish, called "Missions Tidning."
The Rev. Theodore R. Beussel, a graduate of the Theological Seminary at Kropp, Germany, serving a congregation in
1 Mrs. Walter C. Weier, Toledo, O., is now the Recording Secretary.
2 Mrs. M. A. Reeb, Buffalo, N. Y., is now the Treasurer.
RECENT DEVELOPMENT (1909-12) 379 Bristol, Conn., was called by the Board and commissioned as a foreign missionary in St. Peter's Evangelical Lutheran Church, Brooklyn, N. Y., October 9, 1910. He reached Rajahmundry on November 23, that year. Four months later he resigned, and his resignation was accepted to take efifect July I, 1912. The largest number of foreign missionaries ever sent out by the General Council at one time was commissioned in 191 1. Three ordained missionaries and two woman missionaries were sent to India, and one ordained missionary and his wife were sent to Japan. Those sent to India were the Revs. Oscar V. Werner, Frederick W. Schaefer and August F. A. Neudoerffer, and the Misses Margaret C. Haupt and Agatha Tatge.
Oscar Victor Carl Werner was born November 9, 1886, in Brooklyn, N. Y. He attended the German Parochial School of St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church in Brooklyn and the pubhc school in that city. Then he went to Tuebingen, Germany, where from 1896 to 1901 he attended the Royal Gymnasium. Returning to the United States he entered Wagner Memorial Lutheran College, Rochester, N. Y., from which he was graduated in 1904. He took his course in the- ology at the Evangelical Lutheran Seminary, Mt. Airy, Phila- delphia, was graduated and then went to Columbia College, New York City, where he took a special course. He was ordained in 1909, and followed a call to become pastor of Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church, Freeport, Long Island, N. Y., which he served until in September, 1911, he resigned to accept the call of the Board of Foreign Missions to go to India as a missionary of the General Council.
Frederick William Schaefer was born in New York City, November 22, 1883. He attended public schools in New York City, and then went to Wagner Memorial Lutheran College, Rochester, N. Y., from which he was graduated in 1902. He studied theology in the Seminary at Mt. Airy, Philadelphia, was graduated and was ordained in 1905. After serving a congregation at Lockport, Pa., from 1905 to 1907, he became
380 THE TELUGU MISSION OF THE GENERAL COUNCIL pastor of the Church of the Ascension, Brooklyn, N. Y., where he was serving when called to go to India. Both of these missionaries were commissioned by the President of the Board, the Rev. Professor Edward T. Horn, D. D., Sunday evening, September 10, 191 1, in the Church of the Holy Trinity, New York City. On the morning of that day the President commissioned Miss Agatha Tatge in the Church of the Advent, New York City, and the General Secretary, the Rev. George Drach, commissioned Miss Margaret Haupt in the First Lutheran Church, Pittsburgh. Agatha Marie Dorothea Tatge was born in Chicago, 111. Her mother died when Agatha was twelve years old. She was confirmed the next year by the Rev. Zenan M. Corbe. When she was fourteen she was taken out of school by her uncle and aunt, her guardians, but later went to the Lutheran Ladies' Seminary, Red Wing, Minn., where she took the regu- lar four years' course, being graduated in 1906. That fall she entered the Hackley Hospital Training School for Nurses, Muskegon, Mich., and was graduated three years later. Then she entered Teachers' College, Columbia University, New York City, majoring in Hospital Economics, and was graduated on June 7, 191 1. Her special work in the Mission is the management of the Department of Nursing in the Hospital for Women and Children, Rajahmundry. Margaret Ceceha Haupt is a daughter of the Rev. Dr. and Mrs. A. J. D. Haupt. She was born in St. Paul, Minn., while her father was pastor in that city. She spent the fall, winter and spring of 1910-1911 at the Mary J. Drexel Home and Motherhouse of Deaconesses, Philadelphia, as the first student in the special course arranged for the training of woman mis- sionaries in that institution.
For all of these outgoing missionaries, as well as for the Rev. Edward T. Horn, Jr., and his fiancee, who were going to Japan, and for the Rev. and Mrs. Ernst Neudoerffer, who were returning to India after furlough, a farewell service was held in connection with the convention of the General Council, in Trinity Church, Lancaster, Pa., Thursday evening, Septem-
RECENT DEVELOPMENT (1909-12) 381 ber 14, 191 1. Those who had the privilege to attend that service will never forget it. The President of the Board in a most admirable manner introduced each missionary in turn and each in well-chosen words responded. Finally the President of the General Council, the Rev. Theodore E. Schmauk, D. D., in a most happy manner acknowledged for the whole General Council the introduction of the missionaries and encouraged them with the assurance of the presence of the Lord Jesus Christ, to whom all power is given in heaven and on earth. During the service, as one after the other of the missionaries spoke, tears came to the eyes of those who heard their solemn and impressive words; not tears of sorrow but of joy, because such a numerous and noble band of young men and women had been found willing and ready to carry the Gospel to the heathen. At ten o'clock on Saturday morning, September i6th, those bound for India sailed from New York, six adults and two children, and reached Rajahmundry, October 25, 191 1. Two or three days later the new missionaries began their study of the Telugu language.^ After this band of missionaries had sailed away, the Rev. August F. A. Neudoerffer, a younger brother of the Rev. Ernst NeudoerfTer, whom the Board had twice called to go to India, offered to follow his elder brother to the mission field, was accepted and commissioned in St. Johannis' German Lutheran Church, Philadelphia, Wednesday evening, November 29, 1911. August F. A. Neudoerffer was born June 18, 1896, at Santo Leopolidina, Brazil, where his father, the Rev. Ernst Neudoerf- fer, Sr., was a missionary for seven years. About a year after the birth of August the family went to Germany, and from there to Canada, where his father has since served, at Neustadt, Ontario. He attended public school at Normandy, Ontario, and in the fall of 1897 he entered Wagner Memorial Lutheran College, Rochester, N. Y., from which he was graduated in ' New missionaries devote the entire first year to the study of the vernacular. During the second year, while continuing their language study, they are associated with an older missionary. After having passed the second examination at the end of the second year, they are placed in charge of work.
382 THE TELUGU MISSION OF THE GENERAL COUNCIL 1902. After the regular course in theology at the Seminary in Philadelphia, he was ordained June 19, 1905, and then took charge of St. Paul's Church, Hainesport, N. J., which he served six and one-half years. He left New York December 9, 191 1, and reached Rajahmundry January 17, 191 2.
Among the more recent developments in the home admin- istration was the incorporation of the Board. In accord- ance with the instruction of the General Council, convened in Minneapohs in 1909, the Board sought and secured a Charter of Incorporation, which was granted by the Decree of Judge Wilham H. Staake of Philadelphia, on November 18, 1910, and accepted by the Board at its meeting on February 2, 191 1. In this charter the Board is given the following Con- stitution :
' The Board
"i. The name of the Corporation is and shall be
of Foreign Missions of the General Council of the Evangehcal Lutheran Church in North America.'
"2. The object for which the said Corporation is formed shall be to conduct the foreign missions of the General Council of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in North America, and maintain the same in accordance with the Confessions of the Evangelical Lutheran Church as accepted by the General Council of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in North America, in such places as may from time to time be determined by the said Corporation, and provide ways and means for the carry- ing on and extension of said work, and to perform such other duties as are usually incumbent upon and pertain to a Board of Foreign Missions.
"3. The business of said Corporation shall be transacted in the city of Philadelphia, Pa.
"4. The said Corporation has no capital stock and is to exist perpetually.
"5. The management and control of said Corporation shall be vested in a Board not exceeding sixteen members, who shall be elected by the said General Council of the Evangehcal Lutheran Church in North America, for a term of four years, one-half of this number being chosen at each biennial conven-
CORPORATE SEAL OF THE BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS OF THE GENERAL COUNCIL OF THE EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH IN NORTH AMERICA THE CHURCH COUNCIL OF ST. PAUL'S CONGREGATION, RAJAHMUNDRY
R. Charles M. Devadas A. Paul Pastor P. Paradesi \'. Srirannilu Rev. C. F. Kuder M. Samuel i Rev Prof. Adolph Spaeth, D. D., LL.D., Rev. Prof. Ch.\rles W. Schaeffer, D. D., LL.D., 1876-1892 1892-1896
Rev. Hugo Grahn, D. D. 1896-1901
Rev. Prof. Henry E. Jacobs, D. D., LL.D., Rev. Pruf. Edward T. Horn, D. D., LL.D., 1901-1907 since 1907.