# Synodical Conference Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1908_S46
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46 Proceedings of the twenty-second convention

amount to $1402.59. In August of last year Teacher Gehner accepted a call to Illinois, and in the autumn following Teaching Candidate F. Eberhard took his place. The school now numbers 78 children. In May of this year Pastor Ed. Schmidt of Seymour, Ind., called into our mission, entered upon his office here. Since then the work has made fine progress. To be sure, everything is only just taking shape, and great obstacles stand in the way of the work, especially the lodge system. Still, the services are well attended, on average by 40 adults, and the school flourishes. At its opening in the coming school year Missionary Schmidt intends to take over a part of the pupils. — The actual founder of this mission, Joseph Nelson, has already entered into the joy of his Lord. He died on the 17th of June of this year in New Orleans and was buried the next day by Pastor Schmidt in Napoleonville. When, shortly before his death, he saw a picture of the school in Napoleonville, he said: "I'll never see it, but I suppose I'll be the first to be buried from it." [Printed in English.]

III. North Carolina.

1. Concord. Pastor J. Ph. Schmidt, Missionary. Grace Church. This congregation numbers 164 souls, 70 communicants and 20 voting members. At the school is Teacher M. N. Carter, Negro, and during the first quarter of each year Miss Wilmar Barnhardt was placed at his side as assistant teacher. The number of pupils is 117. The contributions for the last two years yielded the sum of $378.08. God's Word has the dominion. At times persons bow beneath it of whom one would not have expected it. The missionary writes: "Thank God that his Word here too is a savor of life unto life!" — To this parish belong also:

a. The congregation Mount Calvary near Sandy Ridge, with a number of souls of 44; of these 27 are communicants and 11 voting members. The income was $96.12. The summer school, which is kept here by a student of Immanuel College, numbers 20 pupils.

b. The preaching places Shankletown, with 8 communicants, and No. 5 Township, with 20 to 30 hearers.

2. Charlotte. Pastor John McDavid (Negro), Missionary. St. Paul. This station has made good progress. The congregation numbers 71 souls, 40 communicants and 10 voting members, the school 106 children. The missionary teaches the upper classes, while for the lower classes a colored assistant stood at his side — in the last year John Alston from Immanuel College and in the year before Yucu Mohammed. Last summer a story was built beneath the church and two schoolrooms were fitted up in it. The old schoolhouse was transformed under the hands of the missionary