# Synodical Conference Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1896_S56
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56 Proceedings of the sixteenth convention

year the colored student Burthlong and this year the student Volkert, both from Springfield.

What Missionary Bakke recently reported to me about his stations, we can say of our whole mission field in North Carolina, namely: "At all stations, Lexington perhaps excepted, growth is to be recorded. The preaching of the Word of God is listened to with due devotion and fruits of the Word are visible everywhere. Our mission has gained a firm footing in North Carolina and looks forward to a hopeful future." Prof. A. Gräbner of St. Louis, who recently visited our mission stations in North Carolina on behalf of the Commission, also bears witness to this. Through our stations the whole state, especially the regions favorable to our mission, is so occupied with stations that from them we can easily reach all by the preaching of the Gospel. How much could be accomplished here, by God's grace, with relatively small means! Only for Greensboro, as a larger city, would larger sacrifices probably be needed. Besides Greensboro there are 6 stations for which chapels are a crying necessity. $2000 would remedy this whole need, and should we, the great Synodical Conference [*Synodalconferenz*] with some 400,000 communicants, not be in a position to raise such a sum for this purpose to the glory of God, even in these hard times, if we were all in real earnest? Something more should also be done for school instruction, and this too could be accomplished with relatively small means if we were, for example, to employ some of our most capable young Negro men from our older Negro congregations to keep school under the direction and supervision of the missionary. Oh, what a blessing could thereby be established, and soon the whole Negro population of North Carolina be permeated by the leaven of the pure Gospel! But we must now take leave of North Carolina and betake ourselves to

Meherrin, Lunenburg Co., Va.

This station was resumed eight years ago by Missionary D. H. Schooff with 28 souls, after it had been given up two years earlier as hopeless. Since then our missionary has worked there with blessing. The inner and outer growth of the congregation was also in these last two years a slow but steady one. The membership has now risen to 120 with 55 communicants. In the last two years 13 children and 7 adults were baptized. The services were attended by 50 to 80. The Sunday school numbers 85 and the weekday school 70 pupils. Slightly over $100 came in in money; besides this a great deal of voluntary labor was done. The mission property comprises 21 acres, 15 acres under cultivation. On this land there is