# Synodical Conference Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1879_S31
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bumped into: yet it was declared that, when one has returned home happily under God's protection, one would speak and do what one could, so that this undertaking, so important for the future of the Lutheran Church of this country and, with God's gracious assistance, surely also bringing blessing, be carried into execution.

II. Mission.
A. Negro Mission [*Negermission*; the period's term].

The proceedings on this subject were connected with the report of the committee on the report of the Negro Mission board and with the report of the committee on the account of the Negro Mission treasury.

1. Report of the Committee on the Report of the Negro Mission Board.

"The undersigned committee takes the liberty of proposing to the Honorable Conference that it hear, from the documents before us relating to the Negro Mission, a letter from Pastor Döscher of 8 July of this year, in which he sets out his reasons for his acceptance of a congregation, and the report of the Mission Commission, drawn up by Pastor Sapper, and then take the proposals of the Mission Commission as the basis of its discussions.

Respectfully, etc.
F. Köstering.
G. Schaller."

This report was adopted.

After Pastor Döscher's letter had been read, the Conference, without debating it, at once took up the report of the Negro Mission Commission, which reads as follows:

"Second Annual Report of the Mission Board of the Ev. Luth. Synodical Conference [*Synodalconferenz*] of North America.

"Since once again a synodical year is hastening toward its end under the grace of the all-gracious God, the Mission Board takes the liberty of submitting to the Honorable Synodical Conference, as its duty, the following report on its activity since its first report.

"The resolution of the Honorable Synodical Conference that our first missionary, Pastor Döscher, settle permanently in New Orleans, La., and from there undertake mission journeys, could not be carried into execution at once, partly because the missionary became seriously ill already during the sessions of this honorable body last year at Fort Wayne, Ind., and even after a happy recovery needed a longer rest; partly because, by God's dispensation, just last year the fright-