# Synodical Conference Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1894_S70
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70 Proceedings of the fifteenth convention

station temporarily with the assistance of students; and since we did not succeed last year in getting a missionary for Springfield, they have continued the care with great self-sacrifice for a whole year more up to now. Prof. Herzer reports: "From the takeover of the mission on 1 March 1893 to 1 July 1894 the situation has remained pretty much the same. Admitted by confirmation are 3 adults. Church attendance was 15 to 30. The Sunday school has 33, among them 20 adult pupils. Lately church attendance has improved. The soul count is 41, communicant members 25. In this time the congregation has raised $105.00. We could have several Negroes under instruction if we had time for house visits." Certainly we are obliged to the professors and their assistants for great thanks that the station is still in such good condition. If it gets a conscientious missionary, we may certainly count on a new flourishing.

For various reasons we did not think it advisable again to call for this station a candidate trained in Springfield. But we have succeeded in winning for Springfield Missionary Hermann Meyer, who has proved himself in office by one year's faithful mission labor in North Carolina, and he will, God willing, begin his work at the mission in Springfield in these days, while the gap in North Carolina caused by his being called away has been filled by a candidate from Springfield.

V. North Carolina.

How, entirely without any seeking of our own, solely through God's wonderful governance, we came to this our newest mission field and began our mission activity there in August 1891, was already reported to a venerable Synodical Conference [*Synodalconferenz*] two years ago. With praise and thanks to God we must confess that he has blessed our work in these three years beyond asking and understanding. A great door has the Lord opened to us here. Let us take a look at the fields of work of the individual missionaries, namely

1. The mission field of our missionary N. J. Bakke.

a. Concord. Here the missionary had gathered the first congregation; in the last two years it has grown from 55 souls to 123 souls and from 35 communicant members to 80. The average number of church attenders is 140, the Sunday school numbers 135 and the weekday school 70 pupils. Since 1 July 1892, 48 have been baptized and 51 confirmed. A church building was absolutely necessary and was therefore erected last year. It is 50 by 28 feet, with sacristy 10 by 12 feet. The tower is 65 feet high. The building is erected in the Gothic style and costs about $1300. In addition there have been given the organ for $400