# Synodical Conference Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1900_S51
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of the Ev. Luth. Synodical Conference of North America. 1900. 51

[deliberations]. Prof. Fürbringer attended the last, the second meeting, and was heartily pleased at the diligence of the brethren and the lively participation of the congregation members.

The founding of a college for the training of Negro pastors and teachers is a subject which the just-mentioned Immanuel Conference wishes to lay before the Conference for deliberation. The Commission has not yet found time to deliberate in detail on this highly important subject, and therefore cannot yet make definite proposals about it to the Reverend Conference. —

We return to the beginning. We lift up our eyes and see the field white and ripe for harvest. We have let the work of our sowers and reapers pass before our eyes and have seen the glorious fulfillment of the promise: "He who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit for eternal life." How, have we not seen with heartfelt grateful joy the richly blessed fruit of the labor of our missionaries? — Shall not this now be our thanks, that we hasten with new desire and willingness to the harvest work? The field is white, the Savior calls to us. The harvest is here. It waits for the diligent sickle. O Christians: Hasten, hasten to the work! Hasten to gather the sheaves of the eternal seed of God also among the Negroes and to bring them into the barns of heaven. There is no time to lose. It is not yet four months to the harvest. No. All signs point rather to the near, great harvest of the Last Day and of the final judgment. The judgment here on earth goes forth first upon the house of God. It is now before our eyes. Christendom has fallen away, is given over by God as a punishment to a perverse mind, has become like a whitewashed tomb. Christian nations we see in South Africa in bloody struggle for earthly power, honor and the treasures of this world. We see at the same time a rich, highly blessed mission field in the heathen land abandoned to devastation by a Christian government. Yes, we see the same Christian government inciting heathen barbarians to the extermination of Christians. In the East heathen China has risen against Christ and his Anointed. Already thousands of Christians may have entered, under the murderous hands of their heathen countrymen, and hundreds of missionaries as martyrs, into the heavenly harvest of joy. But alas, what do we hear said about this misery by so-called Christians? From within Christendom the dreadful accusation sounds, brazen and unabashed: Only the Christian missionaries and the Bible are to blame for these bloody spectacles! And already the newspapers publicly discuss how the church, the Christians, could henceforth be forbidden by the state to do missionary work. So deep has Christendom fallen! Not from heathen alone, no, from within Christendom one hears the cry against Jesus: "Away with him! Crucify him!" — The Jerusalem of the New Testament has become [carrion, continued on the next page].