# Synodical Conference Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1892_S42
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42 Proceedings of the fourteenth convention

3. Trinity Church in Carrollton,

a suburb of New Orleans, is the third station. It was founded in 1885 by Missionary A. Burgdorf and has a good church. But the mission field has proved from the beginning to be not particularly hopeful. An exceedingly low and degraded class of Negroes lives here. Nevertheless, by God's grace, a small advance can this time be recorded compared with the previous report, which had to report a decline. The number of souls has risen from 10 to 14, the number of communicants from 5 to 8; the Sunday school counts 48 children, the weekday school 52. Church attendance too has increased; contributions amount to $143.00. These are at any rate signs enough to carry on the Lord's work here in hope. The provisionally appointed J. Moser still works at the school.

4. Bethlehem Station

is the fourth in New Orleans and the second of Missionary A. Burgdorf. He founded it five years ago under great hopes, and it has pleased the Lord of the Church to preserve these hopes and to fulfill them more and more. It is a flourishing and blessed work that is going on here. The number of souls has grown in the two years from 57 to 116, the number of communicants from 27 to 49; the figures have thus doubled. In the new two-story school building Teacher Rischow teaches the first class, with 74 children, and Teacher Schäfer the second class, likewise with 74 children; over 100 children had to be refused admission for lack of room. The Sunday school has 200 children. In contributions this station has raised $1284.14 in the last two years. A visitation was held in New Orleans by Prof. F. Pieper and the Reverend General President Schwan. — From this richly blessed mission field we now turn to an equally gratifying mission work in

III. Meherrin, Lunenburg Co., Va.

Missionary D. Schooff has labored here for two years. This is the station which once, six years ago, was given up as a hopeless, vain post. But then the power of the pure Word revealed itself in a wonderful way, very humbling to us. For two years the little flock of only seven souls held together by lay-reading services [*Leſegottesdienſte*] and Sunday school, and did not cease asking for a new missionary, until by resolution of the Synodical Conference [*Synodalconferenz*] their request was granted. For two years students from Springfield served the station, and their work was richly blessed by God. In Missionary Schooff God then gave us the right man for these Negroes eager for salvation, and he works among them with great blessing. We now have there a pretty church, school and parsonage, which hardly for