# Synodical Conference Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1908_S49
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of the Ev. Luth. Synodical Conference of North America. 1908. 49

began, taken over again. The congregation numbers 35 souls, 18 communicants and 5 voting members. The summer school is attended by 20 pupils. Besides this, two new stations stand under Director Bakke's supervision. — Immanuel College. Every Sunday there is worship in the assembly hall of the college, in which the professors and students of the institution, as well as a number of families from the neighborhood, take part. In the last two years 141 communed. A flourishing school of 132 pupils has come into being here. It is housed in Immanuel College. In its two classes Teacher Frank Alston, a graduate of the institution, and Teacher Evans Reid, both Negroes, teach. — High Point is a factory town of 12,000 inhabitants. Lutherans from our missions moved here and are now being served. It seems that here is a good field for a school, and a beginning is being made with a summer school.

North Carolina at present counts one mission parish fewer than two years ago, since Missionary James Doswell was transferred from Gold Hill to Springfield, Ill. His stations: Gold Hill, Rockwell and Rocks, were, as is evident, handed over to the Missionaries Lash and Stuart Doswell. — Director Bakke, the visitor of the Commission for North Carolina, writes about the relationship between our white and colored workers: "Among them there prevails brotherly love and unity in practice. As far as I can tell, they perform their office in school and church conscientiously and with joyfulness. Truly, we have much cause to thank God. May the gratitude of our hearts and hands be to him such a sweet savor that he may bestow his goodness upon us in still richer measure!"

IV. Virginia.

Meherrin and Vicinity. Since the autumn of 1890 Missionary D. H. Schooff worked in this mission with great faithfulness and self-denial. By God's grace there developed here out of wretched beginnings a congregation rich in knowledge, with its daughter congregations. Since October of last year, however, this parish has been orphaned. Pastor Schooff, particularly out of consideration for his growing children, accepted a call into the English Synod of Missouri. After his departure Pastor G. Schmidt, traveling preacher in Virginia, served this mission for a time. Since February of this year, however, it is served by Prof. Lochner from Greensboro. St. Matthew's Congregation in Meherrin has a number of souls of 184, 86 communicants and 17 voting members. A few years ago, through rough railroad workers who were employed on the construction of a new railroad through that region, all kinds of mischief came in among our members. Yet God's Word has kept the dominion. Prof. Lochner writes: "I can only say that one must rejoice over their knowledge and over their love for God's Word. Here God's Word has visibly struck