# Synodical Conference Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1898_S43
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of the Ev. Luth. Synodical Conference of North America. 1898. 43

teach in the weekday school 150, in the Sunday school 170 children. The number of souls is 255; 505 have communed. The average attendance at the two Sunday services was 100 in the morning, 60 in the evening, and 33 hearers during the week. For the building of their church the congregation itself contributed $1008.75. It was dedicated on 21 February 1897. In addition, from now on the congregation regularly contributes $25.00 a month to the mission treasury. The missionary gives the congregation the testimony that it grows ever more diligent in attending the services and earnest in godly conduct. He can give the same testimony of his second station, St. Paul. Teacher Niewedde teaches the upper class. The lower class is taught by Pastor Siebelitz, who graduated last year from the seminary at Springfield and can therefore assist Pastor Lankenau in preaching. The number of children in the weekday school is 140, in the Sunday school 150. The number of souls is 215, of communicants 100. This congregation also regularly contributes $25.00 monthly to the mission treasury. While the conduct of the older members here is Christian and church attendance lively, the missionary can especially praise his growing youth, that in their Christian works and ways they are a true ornament to the congregation.

Equally gratifying is the report of Missionary Koßmann on his station, Bethlehem. He praises God's rich blessing on his work, especially in the last year; not only is the congregation diligent in church attendance, but it also proves the fruit of the Word by Christian conduct and good works. In the last two years it raised $1249.47, of which it gave $25.00 a month to the mission treasury and used the rest for the improvement of its property. The number of souls is 183, of communicants 74; the weekday school has 174 children, the Sunday school 178. The average attendance at services is 80, during the week 40. Mr. Teacher Rischow has united the young people into a choir, which has already repeatedly enhanced the celebration of the services. In the yellow fever epidemic last year God held his hand in gracious protection over our mission workers and congregations. Only lighter illnesses occurred among them.

Thus 700 adults and 500 children from the lost race of Ham have been brought into the kingdom of heaven in this city of New Orleans through our mission, and show themselves to be people of God, whose good works and godly conduct even the unbelieving world sees with astonishment and praises.

The latter shows itself, to be sure, still more in our Negro Mission in North Carolina. While in the great metropolis of New Orleans, with its noisy bustle, the working of the kingdom of God, especially with regard to our mission, remains more hidden, it is otherwise in the small country towns such as Concord and Greensboro. There, where