# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1911_S122
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122 Proceedings of the 28th General or

South Illinois District .......................... Pastor E. F. Köstering.
Southern District ................................. Pastor H. M. Hennig.
Texas District ..................................... Pastor H. Studtmann.
Western District .................................... Pastor Jul. A. Friedrich.
Wisconsin District ................................... Pastor H. G. Schmidt.
Central Illinois District .............................. Pastor O. L. Hohenstein.

2. Missions to the Heathen.

A. At Home.

a. The Negro Mission.

(Conducted by the Synodical Conference.)

The newly called director of the Negro Mission, appointed by the Synodical Conference, Prof. N. J. Bakke, was granted the necessary time for an address to the Synod. He sketched in brief outline the history of our Negro Mission: 1. its trial period, when it was met with distrust from many quarters; 2. its time of flourishing, when God led us into various mission fields, so that one church after another had to be built; 3. its present transitional period, in which colored mission workers are now being trained to carry on mission work among their own race.

(This mission has representatives appointed by the Synodical Conference in all our districts.)

b. The Indian Mission.

The report of the relevant Commission read as follows:

We hereby present to the Reverend Delegate Synod the usual report on our Indian mission for the past three years. In 1908 the Delegate Synod had resolved "that a farm building be erected at Red Springs as soon as the necessary funds for it are available." We found ourselves obliged, however, to undertake and erect this building at once, for the following reasons:

1. Our school at Red Springs had nearly gone under entirely. The previous Commission had had to close it in the winter of 1908 "until further notice, for lack of schoolchildren." (See the Report of the Delegate Synod, 1908, p. 102.)

2. Formerly, children who had a very long way to school had been housed with Christian Indian families. But these families no longer wished to take in other people's children in the future. So we had to have a farm building as soon as possible if we did not want to lose these children for our mission.

3. The government, the Roman Catholics, and the sister synod of the Norwegians maintain and operate boarding schools in nearby towns on the reservation. Since we wanted not merely to avoid losing the children of our Indians, but rather to bring quite a number of them under the pastoral care of our missionary, we had to offer them the