# Synodical Conference Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1904_S61
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of the Ev. Luth. Synodical Conference of North America. 1904. 61

Missionary Paul Engelbert has followed a call to Michigan, Missionary G. Schutes has in addition served Rockwell and Gold Hill, and has also recently founded a new station besides, "The Rocks."

Of the station Salisbury we have not much good to report. No progress is perceptible, rather decline. Two years ago Missionary Schutes wrote: "Salisbury is a hard, but still not a hopeless field." We do not doubt today that Salisbury is a hard field, but after the missionary's seven years of work it almost seems to us as if the field were really hopeless. And yet we want to try it further in God's name, namely through a new, colored missionary. Hopefully the report on this station will read more favorably next time. The number of souls is at present 20 (of these 12 communicant and 1 voting member) and the number of pupils 25. The services are attended on average by 15 adults and 5 children.

Catawba. Number of souls 19, communicants 7, voting members 4. Sunday school 10 children. Church attendance on average: 8 adults and 6 children. Conover. Average church attendance: 32 adults and 13 children. Rockwell. Number of souls 51, communicants 25, voting members 9; average church attendance: 17 adults and 10 children. Sunday school 30 children. Gold Hill. Number of souls 40, communicants 25, voting members 10; average church attendance: 20 adults and 16 children. Sunday school 15 children. The Rocks. Number of souls 37; average church attendance: 24 adults and 10 children.

Greensboro and Elon College. For ten years Missionary Joh. C. Schmidt has served these two stations. Here preaching and Sunday school have been held every Sunday, and likewise throughout the week, year in and year out, services and catechism instruction. Missionary Schmidt testifies: "We can say, to the honor of God and with deeply felt thanks to him: Despite many, almost insurmountable and countless difficulties, the dear Savior of sinners, whose work we were carrying on, has richly blessed our small bungler's work, beyond asking and understanding. . . . In comparison with the huge Negro congregations around us with their thousands of souls, our numbers indeed seem small — namely in the eyes of men. But the children of light were always only 'a little flock,' 'a lodge in a garden of cucumbers,' Isa. 1:8. Yet we are certain that, even if our little flock under our protection is outwardly small, it nevertheless serves a salutary purpose: it works like a leaven among the sects. . . . In the last two years there has been only One case of church discipline in my two congregations. By death we lost two men this spring. Six souls have moved in the last year from here to Meherrin, Va., where they are under the pastoral care of Missionary Schooff. One