# Synodical Conference Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1906_S66
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66 Proceedings of the twenty-first convention

E. Missouri.

St. Louis. The mission begun two years ago in St. Louis has also made little progress; here too the constant change has been a hindrance. The right workers are lacking, a favorably located place is lacking. Missionary McDavid, in company with Missionary Thalley, had made a very promising beginning; everything went well. But behold, Missionary Thalley, as already mentioned, fell ill and had to travel to Colorado, and McDavid, because of the urgent need there, had to be transferred to Charlotte, N. C. Student Thompson (Negro) has since taken over the school here and has also preached at times; besides, students from the St. Louis seminary have helped out diligently with preaching. It must also not be left unmentioned that some members of the white Lutheran congregations have rendered and still render excellent services to the mission, which is here gratefully acknowledged. — Should we succeed in finding a capable missionary for St. Louis and Springfield in the near future, the next report on these stations will, it is hoped, read more favorably.

F. Arkansas.

In Arkansas we at present have no mission station, but ought to station someone there. We cannot refrain from printing here a cry for help which came from there to the Commission. It shows that the fruits of our earlier work in Little Rock can still be recognized there. The cry for help reads verbatim as follows:

[Printed in English.]

"Lutheran Pioneer.                    "Little Rock, Ark., July 12, 1906.

"Dear Friend:—

"We are ashamed to ask But will venture to do so For the sake
of our children could we Possibly hope to ever get a Pastor or Teacher
do yuo think the mission Board would em send us one are we Poor
Creatures Reconized By that Board we must confess that we dont
even know how to write a letter we hope to hear soon We are

"SALLIE AUTHES.            "ELIZA BROOKS.
"ELLEN BRANSFORD.          "JOHN BAYLUS.
"JENNETTE ADAMS.           "HENRY BOSLEY.
"SARAH McCLELLEN.          "EMILY BOSLEY.
"JOPHSEF BROOKS.           "JOHN AUTHES."

General Matters.

1. The Commission for Negro Mission has also in the last two years held its monthly meetings regularly and, besides, many extra meetings, the proceedings of which have been exactly recorded in the minutes.

2. Pastor Brink, who had been elected to the Commission two years ago, was called away in August 1905 by a blessed death.