# Synodical Conference Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1890_S28
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28 Proceedings of the thirteenth convention

flowed from the two mission organs into the mission treasury during the last two years, was $1885.04, namely from the "Missions-Taube" [Missions Dove] $1473.16 and from the "Pioneer" $411.88.

During the last two years the Commission has held sixteen meetings, whose proceedings were exactly minuted. The missionaries are required to send in every three months a detailed report on the state of their station and their official acts, so that the Commission is constantly well informed about the progress of the mission work; there is also lively written communication between the Commission and the mission workers. All mission places, with the exception of Little Rock, were visited either by members of the Commission or by persons whom it had commissioned for it.

According to the latest reports our Negro Mission (*Negermission* [mission among African Americans; the period's term "Negro Mission"]) numbers 604 souls, 292 communicant members. The services are attended by 983 hearers. The Sunday schools number 654 and the weekday schools 585 pupils. 42 are in special instruction. In property the mission owns 7 churches on our own, in part valuable, lots, and 2 school buildings. In the service of our mission work 5 missionaries, 3 teachers and 2 assistants, who receive a monthly salary of $590.00.

With thanks to God we may boast: The LORD has given us faithful, self-denying mission workers, has granted them health and has given their work one victory after another. They were permitted to proclaim the heavenly truth before hundreds of ignorant, misled people, who yet were redeemed with the dear blood of God's Christ, to go after the most sunken slaves and maidservants of vice in the merciful love of Christ, and here as there to experience the regenerating power of the Word of God. The crowds of those who want to hear the word of eternal life are becoming ever more numerous, and the throng to our long since famously known schools ever greater. But we cannot call out to them invitingly: "There is still room!" but must lament that almost everywhere there is a lack of room. Of the four stations in New Orleans only one has, besides the church, a school building, namely St. Paul, and this is a board shack, in no respect meeting the needs but near collapse, in which 100 children are crowded together; that is more than twice as many as should be in it. Yes, school buildings and school teachers are what we especially lack. Consider, then, what streams of blessing flow from these orthodox schools upon the Negro population of New Orleans. Hundreds of children are here instructed in the pure doctrine and all kinds of useful knowledge, who would otherwise grow up like heathen.