# Synodical Conference Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1900_S52
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52 Proceedings of the eighteenth convention

[carrion], over which the eagles of the last divine judgment gather threateningly. Already the Judge stands before the door. Already the angel of the Lord has the last trumpet in his hand. In a little while and its dreadful sound will resound through heaven and earth, and all generations of men will tremble. They will lift up their eyes, and behold! the last great harvest has begun. On the throne of divine glory they behold the Lord of the harvest, surrounded by the holy hosts of angels. And they go forth, these his holy reapers, to gather all weeds and all offenses into the fire of eternal damnation. But the sheaves of the harvest they will gather into the barns of eternal joy and blessedness. May then many sheaves from our Negro Mission be among them as joyful fruit of our labor, and may we be found before him on this great harvest day as pious and faithful harvest hands!

Thereupon Prof. A. C. Burgdorf read his treasurer's report, which we let follow as an appendix.

For further preliminary deliberation of the affairs of the Negro Mission a special committee was appointed, which in association with the members of the Negro Mission present was to formulate definite proposals and submit them to the Synodical Conference [*Synodalconferenz*]. The report of this committee was discussed and altered in wording at some points. In the adopted form it reads as follows:

To a Reverend Synodical Conference, assembled at Bay City from 8 to 14 August 1900.

The Committee, which in connection with the members of the Negro Mission board here present was charged to make recommendations in matters of the Negro Mission, takes the liberty of reporting the following:

Two matters lay before it for deliberation: 1. the founding of a college for the training of colored preachers and teachers, 2. the salary question of the missionaries and teachers in the service of the Negro Mission.

With regard to the first point it was resolved to recommend:

1. that the matter of a Negro college be briefly discussed from both sides next Monday afternoon before the whole Synodical Conference;

2. that the Synodical Conference call upon the Negro Mission board to bring the question of the Negro college to general knowledge, in word and writing, within the next two years, and to discuss it, so that it may become known to the congregations and pastors;

3. that the Synodical Conference charge the Negro Mission board to make a survey, if possible on the spot, within the next two years, and to render a detailed report to the Synodical Conference.