# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1851_S175
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they themselves are beginning to see through the Methodists' web of lies, and are developing a distaste for them. This latter fact is a comfort to us, and we rejoice especially that the Sebewaing Indians, though themselves still heathen, nevertheless diligently send their children to school and show good trust in missionary Auch. May God let us harvest good fruit from these young charges.

Since the Shiboygan Indians have now expressed the heartfelt wish that missionary Auch come to them — a formal call having in effect gone out to him from this Indian Christian congregation — missionary Auch will follow this call and will not shrink from a move of six miles in order to have his home in their midst. In doing so he will keep the Sebewaing Indians themselves and their school there in view as before, and it will be his aim to train the young mission assistant Röder, now assigned to him, so that Röder may soon give him effective help and before long live as schoolteacher among the Sebewaing Indians. Building a dwelling house at Shiboygan is necessary and has already been begun.

3. Bethany Station.

In the spiritual condition of this mission station, not much has changed on the whole since last year. Yet according to the latest reports some of the men are halfway to becoming Christians. The little Indian congregation gathered here too through the ministry of missionary Baierlein has been graciously preserved by God and has grown proportionately, so that we can report the baptism of eleven Indians, six of them adults. Indeed, among them was a hundred-year-old, completely blind woman who, since her baptism, has shown on her bed of pain a true hunger for God's word. To assist missionary Baierlein, Mr. Eißfeldt still remains with him, and he too intends to devote his energies further to the mission among the heathen.

5. Frankenmuth Station.

Since, through the departure of Pastor Crämer from there, the strength needed to maintain a mission station was no longer available, we have recognized it as God's will to attach this station to the other stations and to dissolve it as a station existing on its own. Only the family of the Indian doctor, who lives with his son and son-in-law on the former mission land, still needs to be served with preaching; the school had already been dwindling month by month back in Pastor Crämer's time and could properly be discontinued. In future an attempt will be made to persuade the whole family to move to another station, or, should that not happen, the missionaries of the other stations intend to supply them with the preaching of God's word as often as possible. The former Frankenmuth mission land will be sold to cover the extraordinary needs of the other stations, but on the condition that, as long as the Indian doctor is willing to accept God's word, his homestead and farmland are preserved for him.