# Synodical Conference Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1906_S88
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88 Constitution and Agreements of the Synodical Conference.

examined by one of the synods connected with the Synodical Conference [*Synodalkonferenz*] with respect to doctrine and life and found capable. In particular it is to be seen to that the person or persons to be appointed possess just those qualities that belong to carrying on the heathen mission. Such appointees shall, as often as the mission board requires, send it a written report of their activity, and are not only to care for the adults but also to gather the children and, wherever it can be done at all, to establish Christian parish schools. For the holding of the public services as well as the Christian school, a suitable place is to be rented by the missionary or, where in the conviction of the mission board it would be more advantageous, such a place is to be purchased; but the said property shall be the property of the Synodical Conference until at a later time further disposition is made of it according to its instructions.

3. The . . . representatives of the synods connected with the Synodical Conference pledge themselves not only to promote vigorously, for their own person, in their congregations the heathen mission resolved upon by this honorable body, but also to work in their respective synods toward the end that this mission, as intended, become the mission of all congregations belonging to the Synodical Conference, so that the mission moneys collected in the congregations are no longer, as formerly, sent to other mission societies, but used for the mission of the Synodical Conference. They further pledge themselves also to lay this before their respective synods and to work toward the end that, wherever Christian young men are found in the congregations who have desire and gifts to let themselves be trained as missionaries or as teachers among the heathen, they be not only encouraged to it but, where necessary, also supported, in order to make it possible for them. Such young men, as well as poor, pious and gifted boys from among the heathen who wish to devote themselves to the mission, shall be supported from the mission treasury and for now be trained for their future calling in one of the educational institutions of the synods belonging to the Synodical Conference.

The Commission for Heathen Mission shall have its seat in St. Louis. (S.-C. VI, 45 ff.)

There shall be a separate church-building fund for the benefit of the Negro congregations gathered by us. The Commission shall build churches for the Negroes as far as the moneys received for this fund reach. The Negro congregations shall then little by little repay about a tenth annually into this fund, and the churches shall become their property only when the entire building sum has been repaid. From the moneys received back new churches can then again be built. (S.-C. VII, 61. 64.)

The whole Commission for Negro Mission shall at the same time form the editorial committee for the "Missionstaube" [*Missionstaube*, "Mission Dove"]. (S.-C. XII, 47.)

The Synodical Conference undertakes the support of the widows and orphans of its Negro missionaries and teachers. The Negro Mission Commission [*Negermiſſion*, the period's term for the mission among African Americans] is instructed to defray the costs of support from the Negro Mission treasury. The Synodical Conference leaves it to the Negro Mission Commission to determine the amount of the support. (S.-C. XIV, 51.)

The Commission for Negro Mission shall be instructed to see to it that the stations are visited at least once in two years. (S.-C. XVI, 62.)