# Synodical Conference Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1890_S25
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of the Ev. Luth. Synodical Conference of North America. 1890. 25

monetary contributions for mission purposes have come in here in the last two years, $551.35.

Our four stations in New Orleans, under the missionaries Bakke and Burgdorf, thus number together 413 souls, 213 communicant members, about 500 Sunday school and 400 weekday school pupils. The number of those who attend the services amounts to nearly 600. In contributions and collections they raised in the two years almost $2000.00. All this is no rosy-colored report, but sober fact.

6. Meherrin, Lunenburg Co., Va.

After the Venerable Synodical Conference [*Synodalconferenz*] had approved the refilling of Meherrin, the Commission tried to call a missionary for that station, but without success. It was therefore resolved to fill this mission provisionally with students from the seminary in Springfield, and first Student D. H. Schooff was sent. In January 1889 Student Alfred Brauer then took over the temporary service of the station, and remained there, with the permission of the Venerable Faculty of Springfield, until summer. In May 1889 Pastor Oehlschläger of Richmond, Va., had the kindness, at the request of Student Brauer, to go to Meherrin, there to confirm 7 adults and to administer holy communion in the congregation, in which all the communicant members took part. Since Student Brauer had to be back in Springfield by the beginning of the new school year, the faculty left to us Student F. Lankenau, to take over the service of the station for a year. In March of this year 6 persons could again be confirmed with God's help. At the same time we were informed that a larger church building was necessary, and that the people would also like to have a little bell. Student Lankenau explained to them that it was their duty to put their own hand to the work, to which they at once showed themselves willing, and in a short time raised $11.20 for a bell and $7.95 for a new church. To be sure, a small beginning. Presumably the money for a bell will be raised much faster than for a church, and we shall then in the end probably have to build a church for the bell!

In June of this year the Commission then called Candidate D. H. Schooff of Springfield as pastor and missionary for Meherrin. He also recognized our call as a divine one and accepted it. On the eighth Sunday after Trinity he was to be ordained by Pastor Oehlschläger. He was already on the point of setting out on the journey to his field of labor, and wanted to drive with his young wife in Sheboygan, Wis., to the railway station, when the horses took fright; both had to jump out of the carriage to save themselves, whereby his wife broke a leg. Half a minute later they would probably both