# Synodical Conference Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1886_S75
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of the Ev. Luth. Synodical Conference of North America. 1886. 75

in the month of March the number had risen to 70 and has grown steadily
since, so that almost daily newly registered pupils have to be
turned away. This station bears the name St. Paul's Chapel and has naturally
been served regularly with Word and Sacrament since its opening by Missionary Bakke.
In the autumn of 1885 Candidate Aug. Burgdorf from the St. Louis seminary entered
the mission, and at the beginning of this year the third station, St. Trinity
Church, was opened in a suburb of New Orleans, in Carollton,
a fine church, still in very good condition, being available there at the
very low price of $600.00 and the Negroes living there in great
numbers. The school opened by Missionary Burgdorf
numbered already after 3 months about 90 pupils, and therefore
Mr. W. Jöckel, candidate from the teachers' seminary at Addison, was called to this
school, who after the summer vacation in September will take up his office
there. Of the blessed and gratifying progress
of the mission in this city the frequent reports about it in the
"Miſſionstaube" [Mission Dove] bear witness, which are confirmed by the Honorable General President Schwan and
Professor Pieper, both of whom, during their presence there
last year, took exact notice of it. To
let the figures speak as well: our three weekday schools are attended by
264 children, the Sunday schools by 237 children. The number of souls
of the congregations is 171, of communicants 98, of whom 44
are confirmed children and 54 adults, of whom 12 are voting members.
The Sunday services are attended on average by 125, the weekday
services by about 60 adults; about 50-60 adults
attend church as guests but have not yet joined.
Baptized were 37, of whom 4 adults; confirmed 9. All
mission property in New Orleans is free of debt, and the contributions and
collections which the Negroes in these 2 years have contributed among themselves for the maintenance of the work
of the LORD amount to $563.89, against $169.40
in the report of 1884.

IV. General Matters.

What the Commission for the Negro Mission has otherwise to report to the Reverend Synodical
Conference of its activity and which proposals it would
like to recommend to it for execution is the following:

1. During the last two years the Commission has held sixteen
meetings, whose proceedings were carefully recorded in minutes.
The missionaries have submitted for them their regular quarterly
reports on the state of their missions, attendance at services, schools
and official acts with treasurer's reports, so that the Commission
remained exactly informed about their work and in the liveliest contact and ex-