# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1902_S71
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Tenth Delegate Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States, 1902. 71

organizing a congregation there had still to be set aside for the time
being on account of P. Poch's protracted illness. A mission property, as
well as a school, are already in place. On the third Sunday after
Trinity 1901 the dedication took place of the school built with the
support of the American school children. It is a small, pleasant
brick building (20×40 feet) and also serves on Sundays as a preaching
hall. The school, over which teacher Vornsand presides with fidelity and
skill, is attended by 41 children. Through the children we hope to win
the old as well. One of the pupils intends, with his parents' consent,
to enter the teachers' seminary at Addison next year. The property in
South Tottenham is paid for except for a debt of about £400.00
($2000.00), for which P. Schulze's congregation is likewise liable. This
mission should therefore be remembered by our congregations with a truly
generous collection as soon as possible. Perhaps the dear teachers and
pastors might also once again be willing to take up a collection among
the school children and confirmands for the London mission school.

"'Furthermore, since the beginning of December 1901 we have had a
third preaching station in London, namely in North Woolwich, situated in
the farthest east of this city of millions. Many German glassworkers
have recently immigrated there, finding employment in an English bottle
factory. P. Schulze took an interest in these people as soon as he heard
of them. He found among them about 50 evangelical and Lutheran families,
some with many children, who had come over from various countries of the
Continent. As a result of the unsettled, wandering life many of these
people lead, the neglect among them is exceedingly sad, both physically
and spiritually. If the people there find their bread and thus remain, a
congregation could well arise among them in time, especially if someone
could take charge of them and their many children on the spot. But it is
equally possible that all these families will, before long, be off again
like birds of passage.' So far P. Schulze.

"Your Commission takes the liberty of recommending the following with
regard to the mission work in London:

"1. That the request of P. Schulze and his congregation for support be
granted, especially since such support has already been held out in
prospect to them by the Synod; for the London congregation — South
Tottenham included — is burdened with a debt of about $6000.00.

"2. That with regard to North Woolwich, the Commission does not
consider it advisable, given the uncertain conditions prevailing there,
to station a pastor or teacher there. P. Schulze should therefore, as
before, look after the people and wait to see how conditions in North
Woolwich further develop.