# Synodical Conference Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1892_S41
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of the Ev. Luth. Synodical Conference of North America. 1892. 41

II. New Orleans, La.

Here the blessing of God, which we have experienced from the beginning, has not only remained with us but has come to ever richer unfolding. We have here four stations, two missionaries, seven teachers, three two-class schools and one one-class school, three churches, two two-story school buildings, 571 souls, 301 communicant members, 484 pupils in the weekday schools and 577 in the Sunday schools. As to the individual stations, the first and largest station here is

1. Mount Zion.

Here Missionary Bakke labored with great blessing from 1879 until last year. But when a very large and important mission field unexpectedly opened to us in North Carolina, the commission found it advisable to place him there, as the oldest and most experienced missionary, and to call Candidate J. Lankenau to his place; he had already earlier helped out in the school there for half a year and had won the love and confidence of the Negroes. The mission work has accordingly continued under him in a gratifying and blessed way. The station owns a church which is at the same time a school building, in which the teachers Vix and Mönch work; it counts 255 souls, 137 communicants, 131 pupils in the Sunday school, 107 in the weekday school (42 in the first class, 65 in the second), and has raised in the last two years $1193.00 in voluntary contributions. The only shadow in this gratifying picture is the dilapidated state of its church, which in any case ought to be replaced by a new one next year. Missionary Lankenau's second station is

2. St. Paul,

founded in 1881. It has a fine new church with tower and bell and a new two-story school building, the building of which, together with a second one at the Bethlehem station, the honorable Synodical Conference [*Synodalconferenz*] had resolved at its last convention in St. Paul, Minn. Teacher C. Lemke now stands in the school. Teacher Kaufmann had been called by the commission, but after a short labor was transferred by the Lord of the harvest, through a blessed death, into the heavenly barns. For over a year the young Negro Burthlong, who had gone through our schools and belonged to the congregation, helped out at the school with good success, but in the fall of 1891 he entered the seminary in Springfield for further training. As it was not yet possible to obtain a second teacher for this school, a woman teacher has been provisionally appointed. The number of souls here is 143, the number of communicants 75, of pupils in the Sunday school 140, in the weekday schools 134. In contributions this station raised $614.70 in the last two years.