# Synodical Conference Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1882_S92
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success of our almost two years' work there was very small, and on the other hand we also heard that in Mobile there were very few Negroes who did not already belong to one or another of the many Negro congregations there, and that these few were such as wanted to know nothing of religion at all. So we thought it most advisable to give up the mission in Mobile, but asked Pastor Wahl to take care as far as possible of the souls baptized by him, which he also does. President Schwan of the Missouri Synod, who was in Mobile last spring too, expressed his regret that the mission there had to be given up.

At the beginning of September of this year Mr. Rossingnol, who for a time had kept school under Missionary Wahl's supervision, and who had also earlier been for a considerable time in Missouri institutions, at Fort Wayne and Springfield, had inquiry made of the Commission through Pastor Wahl whether we would lend him the benches and other mission property if he would again keep a Negro school on his own responsibility and under Pastor Wahl's inspection, which was permitted him, and so the school there is again in operation. For his support Mr. Rossingnol takes tuition from the children.

4. Green Bay, Prince Edward Co., Virginia.

In October 1880 your Mission Commission received a letter from Pastor W. R. Bühler. He had formerly been a missionary in Africa, came later to America and here belonged to the so-called Protest party in the New York Ministerium. At the time, however, he was staying in Green Bay, Va., where his wife owns a farm. He had settled here in order to regain his health with God's help. When he had now recovered, and had the opportunity to see from close at hand the great misery and spiritual neglect of the many Negroes living here, heartfelt compassion for them awoke in him, and from it the desire to become a Negro missionary. Since he was highly recommended to us from friendly quarters, and his orthodoxy had also been put beyond doubt by a colloquy held with him by Pastors Dreyer and Lübkert, he was called by the Commission as Negro missionary and charged with the establishment of a mission at Green Bay. We seized this opportunity all the more gladly because we could now try the Negro mission in the country for once, whereas until now we had carried on mission work only in the cities. Missionary Bühler informed us that his wife would give us from her farm a suitable piece of land for the erection of a necessary mission building and would also permit the felling of trees for the building of a log house. This offer was accepted with thanks, and further $150.00 was granted for a building to serve as church and school. For even if it was a log house, one needed many things that had to be bought for money, such as,