# Synodical Conference Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1890_S27
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of the Ev. Luth. Synodical Conference of North America. 1890. 27

school is 25×36 feet and 12 feet high inside. It makes up with the chapel a building 70 feet long. The costs of the building amount to $3607.57, school benches not included; thus they exceed the appropriated sum by more than $1200.00. The lot on which the chapel stands has a frontage of 80 feet on Fifteenth Street and 157 feet on Jefferson Street, and cost $900.00. In the spring of 1889 Missionary Knabenschuh became so ill that he needed rest and a stay at the seashore for a longer time. Prof. Wyneken undertook to provide for the temporary service of the station, with the help of the students Schooff and Lankenau. At the beginning of August 1889 Missionary Knabenschuh had, by God's help, recovered so far that he could resume his official duties. Since the school benches used until then were property of the seminary and were now needed there, we saw ourselves compelled to procure two dozen school benches ourselves, and various teaching aids.

The missionary's request that he be given a teacher had to remain unfulfilled, for the following reasons: First, no teachers are to be had for mission service. Then, in Springfield we can hardly count on a larger number of pupils, because here the Negro children have access to all public schools, and finally we lack the means. Statistical reports of the station have not yet come in this year. The last quarterly report of 1889 gives the station 60 souls, 24 communicant members, attendance at the services 30 to 200, Sunday school 70, weekday school 45 pupils. The prospects for this station are still very hopeful.

8. General Matters.

Since the Venerable Synodical Conference [*Synodalconferenz*] two years ago re-elected the previous members of the Commission for the next four years, namely: Prof. F. Pieper, Pastor O. Hanser, Director Burgdorf and the undersigned, to whom Pastor H. Sieck was then added as fifth member, the organization of the Commission took place at the next meeting, at which the undersigned was elected president, Prof. Pieper vice-president, Director Burgdorf secretary and treasurer, and Pastors Hanser, Sieck and the undersigned editors of the "Missions-Taube" [Missions Dove]. Because, however, Pastor Sieck was soon afterward called to the Northwest and lived at too great a distance from St. Louis, the editing of the "Missions-Taube" remained with the two other editors, and in place of Pastor Sieck, as member of the Commission, there stepped in his successor in the pastoral office, namely Pastor C. F. Obermeyer.

For editor of the "Lutheran Pioneer" this Venerable body had itself re-elected Professor R. A. Bischoff. The surplus, which