# Synodical Conference Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1902_S68
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68 Proceedings of the nineteenth convention

tion took place, 14 persons were confirmed. The new congregation numbers 18 communicants. The missionary asks quite urgently that the Honorable Synodical Conference [*Synodalconferenz*] build a small, modest chapel for the Negroes here. In Monroe, N. C., also, it will be necessary to erect a chapel as soon as practicable.

"Church attendance in Concord, N. C., is at present better than for several years," writes Missionary Ph. Schmidt. "The old love is returning, and I look hopefully into the future. Teacher W. Lohrmann, who took over the school in Concord in the autumn of 1900, held out only a short time in Concord and then accepted a call to the East. A school-teaching candidate from Addison has been called to Concord, N. C., but he has not accepted the call." In addition Pastor Ph. Schmidt has also served the stations St. Peters and Silver Hill. For a whole year he also preached for the so-called "chain gang" (county prisoners). The station Winston, N. C., has been given up for the time being, and Pastor Oehlschläger has accepted a call to the East.

Of his station Salisbury Missionary Schütz, who has worked there for five years, writes approximately as follows: Salisbury is a hard but not hopeless field. The mission here is making progress, if only slowly. There are, here as elsewhere, great difficulties to be overcome, but God's Word wins one victory after another here too. Church attendance is: on Sundays 40 adults and 20 children, at the weekday services: 20. The day school is attended by 50 children. In addition two Bible classes are held during the week, namely in the homes of the Negroes, led by the pastor and attended regularly by 15 to 18 adults. The monetary contributions were small and slight; the people are poor and earnings are small, about $1.25 to $2.00 a week. Salisbury at present has 10,000 inhabitants and enjoys steady growth, and with God's help the little mission congregation will grow in the future. Pastor Schütz serves also the station Catawba near Conover, N. C. The little chapel there is now finally finished and can be dedicated shortly.

Two years ago (in the autumn) Pastor Nickel took over the station Southern Pines founded by Pastor Bakke, but soon thereafter accepted a call to the North; Pastor Buch has taken his place, who reports as follows on the present state of the mission in Southern Pines: "We have 25 baptized members, of whom 12 are communicants and 3 voting members. In property there is here a chapel which is used on Sundays as a church and during the week as a school. A bell would be very welcome. Church attendance is not what it should be; but those who come are for the most part attentive hearers. The day school is attended by 20 to 25 children. The prospects of rapid