# Synodical Conference Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1906_S61
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of the Ev. Luth. Synodical Conference of North America. 1906. 61

could not in some way be occupied yet this autumn, if only with a teacher, because otherwise it is to be feared that the sects, which until now have quite disregarded the two Negro settlements near Napoleonville, are now already beginning to make preparations to occupy the field before we are ready, so that we again, as is so often the case, have merely the meager gleanings or perhaps even merely the look-on. Eleven women and four men in Napoleonville have already inquired when the missionary would be ready to receive members."

B. North Carolina.

1. Concord, Sandy Ridge and Shankletown. (Pastor Ph. Schmidt.) "The number of souls in Concord," writes the missionary, "is at present 153; among them are 67 communicant and 20 voting members. The number of communions came to 406. Baptized were 8, confirmed 7 (among them 3 adults), buried 3, married 3 couples. Through deaths, removals, apostasy and the like we lost 18 souls, and through baptism, confirmation and from sister congregations we received an increase of 21 souls. The total receipts amounted to $410.92, the local expenses to $156.18; $251.97 was sent to the treasurer of the Negro Mission [*Negermiſſion*, the period's term for the mission among African Americans] for various purposes.

"On 1 October 1905 Teacher Persson left this station, having accepted a call to Granite City, Ill. Until 1 February of this year the missionary took over the teaching in the school, and since then a Negro, Teacher M. N. Carter, has kept school here. Mr. Carter is a son of the late Negro missionary of the Ohio Synod in Baltimore, Md. When his father became a Lutheran missionary, he was, being then nine years old, baptized a Lutheran and attended, until he was fourteen years old, the Lutheran parish school in which his father taught. After he had then completed the course in the public high school in Baltimore, he went to Capital University in Columbus, O., to prepare for the ministry. After two years he was obliged by the death of his father to leave the institution and worked for a year and a half as a schoolteacher in the free school at Baltimore. Last year he had a good position in a business house at Newark, N. J. He is 25 years old and married. He is much liked by the children and in the congregation, and in him we have apparently gained a gifted and very conscientious worker for the mission. Among my confirmands this year was F. K. Patterson, physician, schoolteacher and formerly preacher in the Methodist church; he is to become, God willing, a Lutheran missionary.

"The number of souls in Sandy Ridge is at present 43; among them are 29 communicant and 11 voting members. Communions numbered 69, baptized were 3, confirmed 8, buried 3, married one couple. The loss in souls amounts to 6, the