# Synodical Conference Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1882_S84
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Enclosure.

Resolved: That the Hon. Synod of Ohio and Other States, much as it regrets it, hereby withdraws from the Hon. Evangelical Lutheran Synodical Conference, because the Hon. Synod of Missouri, which as is well known forms the overwhelming majority of the Synodical Conference, 1. has set up, and last May definitively adopted, a doctrine of election of grace which we cannot accept; 2. has already declared definitively that it will not sit and deliberate with the majority of our delegates this year, because they believed they had to describe that doctrine publicly as Calvinizing.

VI. Negro Mission

On Saturday afternoon the matter of the *Negermission* [mission among African Americans; the period's term "Negro Mission"] could also be taken up. The chairman of the Mission Commission, Pastor Sapper, first read the

Third Report of the Mission Commission of the Evangelical Lutheran Synodical Conference of North America,
covering the period from July 1879 to October 1882.

In the expectation that this time the Hon. Synodical Conference will assemble for a convention, the Mission Commission takes the liberty of submitting to it, as in duty bound, the following report on its activity:

Since our mission organ, the "Missionstaube" [Mission Dove], has reported regularly on the progress of the mission among the Negroes, we can be all the briefer here, in that we report on each station separately.

1. Little Rock, Ark.

Missionary Berg reported to the Hon. Synodical Conference at its sessions in July 1879 that the number of children in the mission school at Little Rock was already then 138 and that a steady increase was in prospect, for which reason he needed a second teacher and a second schoolroom. The Synodical Conference therefore resolved: "That the Mission Commission be instructed to try to obtain a second teaching force for the school at Little Rock, to undertake the necessary modest school building, and to ask for charitable gifts for this in the 'Missionstaube'."

Accordingly the "Missionstaube" appealed for gifts for the school building. But since a school cannot be put into finished form at once, nor a teacher