# Synodical Conference Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1906_S67
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of the Ev. Luth. Synodical Conference of North America. 1906. 67

3. Our friend "Unknown" has also in the last two years presented himself repeatedly and each time handed the treasurer $500.00 in cash as a gift for the Negro Mission.

4. Visitations have been made, among others, by Prof. L. Fürbringer and Pastor Chas. F. Obermeyer.

5. Prof. Bischoff has also in the last two years, in spite of his ailing condition, rendered excellent service to the mission. The same holds also of Pastor Otto Hanser and Prof. Herzer.

6. The widow Wehle has given the Negro Mission 10,000 pictures.

7. In Sandy Ridge, N. C., a chapel has been built and paid for; in the stations Salisbury and The Rocks chapels must be built.

8. The "Missionstaube" [*Missionstaube*, "Mission Dove," the Synodical Conference's German-language mission paper] had 23,360 subscribers in 1905, the Lutheran Pioneer 4780. Both papers are published at the behest of the Synodical Conference and both ought to be more zealously circulated. The net profit from both papers for the year 1905 was $2266.65.

9. Withdrawn from the Negro Mission [*Negermiſſion*, the period's term for the mission among African Americans] are: the pastors Essig, Buch, Weinhold, Schutes and Thalley; the teachers Fuhrmann (deceased), Heintzen, Persson and Wolf.

10. Our present workers are: In Louisiana: the pastors: Lankenau, Koßmann, Kretzschmar and Wenzel; the teachers: Vix, Meibohm, Wilde, Odendahl, Wilder (newly called), Gehner (newly called), Miss Lankenau, as well as the Negroes Seaberry, Wiley (newly called) and Miss Walter. — In North Carolina: the pastors: Bakke, J. C. Schmidt, Ph. Schmidt, Wahlers, Lochner, Groß (newly called), Stuart Doswell (Negro), James Doswell (Negro), W. H. Lash (Negro) and John McDavid (Negro); the teachers: Buntrock, Carter and Reid (all Negroes). — In Virginia: Pastor Schooff. — In Illinois: (Vacant.) — In Missouri: (Vacant.) —. In all: 28; namely 18 whites and 10 Negroes.

Concluding Word.

This report too on the work of the last two years in the Negro Mission shows us that our labor is not in vain in the Lord. Should this not fire and encourage us to abound ever more in this glorious mission work, to carry it on ever more joyfully, willingly and zealously, to offer our gifts for it ever more abundantly, since we know so surely and see before our eyes that we do not labor in vain, but that everything we do for the mission bears fruit? Let us therefore heed the admonition of the Apostle: "Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord."

This gives us courage to pray: Lord Jesus Christ, thou King of thy kingdom of heaven, let thy kingdom come more and more to us and to those who still languish outside in the realm of darkness! Wilt thou