# Synodical Conference Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1894_S65
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of the Ev. Luth. Synodical Conference of North America. 1894. 65

school has very good material and consists mostly of children whose parents hold with us. On 13 May 3 were confirmed and 2 baptized. 3 men and 2 women are waiting for confirmation. The station has a church, which is used at the same time as a school. It needs repair, but the members are willing to bear the costs themselves. The missionary is full of joyful hope for the future. Pastor Bäpler of the German congregation there also reported on the work of our missionary and the prospects of the mission so favorably that giving up the station could not be justified.

II. New Orleans, Louisiana.

Here we now have only three stations, Mount Zion, Missionary E. W. Kuss; St. Paul, Missionary J. Lankenau; and Bethlehem, Missionary Aug. Burgdorf. The fourth station, Trinity in the suburb of Carrollton, we had to let lapse, as already mentioned. This station was served in addition by Missionary Burgdorf until a year ago; but because the burden of work visibly endangered his health, and we also wished to give the station a whole man's strength for itself alone, Candidate E. W. Kuss from the seminary in St. Louis was called and on 10 September 1893 was ordained and installed in Carrollton by Missionary Aug. Burgdorf. But when the labor of this missionary too proved altogether in vain, the Commission had to take the continuance or abandonment of this station into serious deliberation. Missionary Burgdorf had already years ago given the Commission the advice to let Carrollton lapse, since there were no prospects that anything would ever come of this station, and in answer to an inquiry he declared himself in a letter of 4 April of this year again very decidedly for the discontinuance of this station, where work had now been done for nine years and almost nothing achieved, also not in the latest period, in which this station had had its own missionary; for although Missionary Kuss had now worked seven months with great diligence and great faithfulness and self-denial, the situation at the station was still just as before. Adults hardly came at all to the services, at most 2 or 3, and even if the number of school children had grown, we could still not count on building the congregation through them in time, because they change too often and almost none of them can be moved to let themselves be confirmed.

Missionary Kuss agreed entirely with what Missionary Burgdorf had said. He writes, for example, in a letter of 4 April: "As regards the congregation and attendance at worship, the situation is exactly the same with both as it was when I came here in September 1893. Of the 9 communicant members, 4 come fairly regularly, 2 come now and then and the others almost not at all. . . . Strangers come now and