# Synodical Conference Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1898_S48
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48 Proceedings of the seventeenth convention

To carry out these resolutions it was further resolved:

1. to instruct the Mission Commission to send representatives of the Negro Mission to the meetings of the individual synods, or synodical districts, and to direct them also, on their journeys, to work for the Negro Mission in individual congregations through addresses or sermons;

2. to instruct the Commission to send as soon as possible a circular in German and English to all pastors of the Synodical Conference [*Synodalconferenz*], with the request that they commend it to their congregations in public worship in hearty words and have it distributed; that Mr. Pastor Kretzschmar draft the circular, and that this circular be signed by the officers of the Synodical Conference;

3. to direct the Commission to have the December issue of the "Miſſions⸗Taube" [Missionary Dove (mission periodical)] printed in sufficient number and sent to the pastors for distribution to all members of the congregations, with the understanding that this issue contain special information about the state of the Negro Mission and that the request for a Christmas gift for the poor Negroes be joined to it, which gift may also take the form of a subscription to the "Miſſions⸗Taube";

4. that during every session of the Synodical Conference a special service with addresses from the Negro Mission be held;

5. that the Negro Mission Commission be supplemented by one further member each from other synods, or synodical districts, with the understanding that the members of the Commission in St. Louis form the executive and that the out-of-town members attend the official meetings only upon the call of the executive.

The out-of-town members of the Commission elected under this resolution are:

a. From the Michigan Synod: Pastor J. Klingmann, Ann Arbor, Mich.

b. From the German Missouri Synod:
Wisconsin District: Pastor B. Sievers, Milwaukee, Wis.
Michigan District: Pastor H. Speckhard, Saginaw, Mich.
Iowa District: Pastor E. Melcher, Waverly, Iowa.
Eastern District: Pastor F. Brand, Pittsburg, Pa.
Central District: Pastor J. Miller, Fort Wayne, Ind.
Illinois District: Pastor H. Engelbrecht, Chicago, Ill.
Minnesota and Dakota District: Pastor F. Sievers, Minneapolis, Minn.
Nebraska District: Pastor M. Adam, South Omaha, Nebr.
Kansas District: Pastor W. Lüssenhop, Independence, Kans.
California and Oregon District: Pastor J. Schroeder, San Francisco, Cal.