Show LUTHERAN SYNOD Some Very Encouraging Reports Made and Submitted Mansfield O June 16The committee of the Lutheran synod to which was re feed the offer of Dr H v Kuhns of Omaha to donate 13 lots comprising i square In Omaha oJTJn0maha for the establishment of q an orphans home reported today that Senator Ai Charles Bogardus of Baxton 111 telegraphed an offer to locate the pro posed home in Paxton and another tele gram making a similar offer had been re ceived from sjcdalia Mo Dr Kuhns said Ce had 20 aCreS Of land bing l five miles y ng ve out of Omaha 1 hl which he would donate for the founding of the home if the synod preferred a country site The synod Instructed President Hamma to appoint a standing committee to con sider all offers form plans for the charter or the Institution and report at the next general synod two years hence The com mittee appointed was Rev M F Trox ell Springileld Ill W H Dunbar Bal timore C B King Allegheny Pa L P Sudden Lincoln Neb H J Penileld Omaha Neb A resolution was passed Instructing the deaconness board to look for a permanent perma-nent location for the mothers house and report at the next biennial Rev Parsons reported on behalf of the National Lutheran Home for the Aged at Washington D C that one building had been erected others were In contemplation contempla-tion and the Indications were that within a few years considerable development would be made The Indebtedness had been reduced 2200 The apportionment asked for the next two years was 5 cents per capita Rev Dr Parsons of Washington D C chairman of the committee on literary and theological institutions submitted a report from which it appears that all the institutions under the care of tho cescral synod are In a flourishing condition condi-tion some of them having received large bequests of money and real estate The attendance had been steadily increasing notably in the case of Wittenberg which now had the largest number of students The young ladies seminaries were doing successful work for the church |