# Synodical Conference Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1894_S66
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66 Proceedings of the fifteenth convention

then, but almost none for a second time. Inviting seems to help nothing at all with the people. . . . There are thus almost no prospects at all of achieving even an average attendance of 10 adults. The people here are too much attracted by the sects. . . . As for confirmands, nothing further is to be reckoned on either. . . . The prospects, then, that Carrollton will ever amount to something are very, very slight. I cannot move the people to come to church. . . . Missionary Burgdorf has indeed experienced the same thing over the many years. It stands sadly and there is also no hope." We refer further to Missionary Burgdorf's report, "Missions-Taube," June 1894, p. 43 f. After lengthy deliberation the Commission resolved, "to give up the mission station in Carrollton and to sell the mission property there as soon as possible."

Missionary Kuss took over on 1 May of this year the station Mount Zion, and Missionary J. Lankenau kept the station St. Paul alone and at the same time took over its first school class. In the vacancies at our schools in New Orleans, caused by the calling away of the teachers, we have often had to make use of the help of students, and are obliged to the seminary in Springfield for it. With regard to the so much desired and already resolved founding of a new station in New Orleans, nothing further could be done for lack of money, except that an excellently situated and very suitable building lot was picked out. This is now, to be sure, no longer to be had; but one would probably be found again if the means for establishing a station were at hand. As to our three stations in New Orleans, the following remains to be reported:

A. Mount Zion. This station was founded in 1878 in the Sailors' Home and in 1882 moved to Franklin Street. Missionary J. Lankenau presided over it in recent years, until a few months ago he took over alone the station St. Paul, which he had already served in addition until then, and Missionary E. W. Kuss, who had been at the discontinued Trinity station in Carollton, took over the station Mount Zion on 1 May. At his side stand the teachers Vix and Meibohm, the latter since November of last year, after Teacher Mönch resigned his office a year before and many futile attempts were then made to call a teacher. The church bought in 1882 is also used for both schools at the same time. Already two years ago the venerable Synodical Conference [*Synodalconferenz*] recognized the necessity of a new building, and resolved on it. But unfortunately the resolution could not be carried out, for reasons already given. The building has now become so dilapidated that many are kept from attending by it. A new building is therefore now an unavoidable necessity.