# Synodical Conference Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1906_S65
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of the Ev. Luth. Synodical Conference of North America. 1906. 65

lege and Rudds Station were served by Missionary Schmidt, and as much and as regularly as was possible under the prevailing circumstances. Number of souls in Elon College: 39; communicants: 12; voting members: 6.

C. Virginia.

1. Meherrin and surroundings. (Pastor Schooff.) Missionary Schooff has also in the last two years been ill now and then and has also had illness in his family. In his reports he complains also of all kinds of difficulties and also of decline in the mission there, and regrets, for example, the great indifference of the parents. Official acts in the last two years: Baptized were 2 adults and 6 children, confirmed 1 adult, communions 337. Deceased are two women, a young man and a child. The parish school numbered 35, the Sunday school 62 pupils; average attendance of the former: 22. Voting members: 21; number of souls: 135. In money $222.50 was collected; $105.00 was sent in to the general mission treasury; for the poor $36.50 was used.

Near Meherrin there is also a German Lutheran mission, and for certain reasons our Negro missionary had to help out. He has preached for the German Lutherans rather often.

2. The preaching place Prince Edward, also called Bruceville, has 38 souls. Here something can be accomplished only through diligent school-keeping. But because workers were lacking, no school could be set up here either. We had to be content with a summer school.

D. Illinois.

Springfield. (Pastor Thalley, Negro.) The mission here has suffered severely and still suffers; therefore there can be no talk of progress either. Missionary Thalley, who worked here in the years 1904 and 1905, has been unfit for work for a long time already. He is consumptive and was sent by his physician to the Lutheran sanatorium in Denver. He is now somewhat restored, but according to the testimony of the physicians may not return to the Negro Mission. — Since Thalley's departure Student R. Hanke helped out by keeping school until Easter 1906, later for a few weeks Student O. Thal. During the long vacation the old friend of our Negro Mission, Prof. J. Herzer, despite his usual great labors, had to take on this mission, and he has done so gladly; but now he can no longer perform the work — it is not the desire that is lacking him, but the time, and we lack the workers. Number of souls: 60; communicants: 36; voting members: 9. Baptized were 5, married 2 couples; under instruction are 2 adults; buried 5. 58 attend the Sunday school, 15 children the weekday school. Prof. Herzer writes: "The constant change has hindered the mission. There is material for mission work at hand, but growth is only slow."