# Synodical Conference Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1910_S29
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of the Ev. Luth. Synodical Conference of North America. 1910. 29

two proven teachers Vix and Meibohm with great blessing. The
congregation numbers 220 souls, 112 communicants and 20 voting
members. The number of school children is 139, of the Sunday
school 144. The congregation pays regular contributions to the
mission treasury. Recently a member of the congregation, the widow
Mary Wright, presented the church with a beautiful altar and is
now also having a picture made for it. The
congregation is not growing greatly outwardly, but it has grown stronger inwardly.

St. Paul. (Vacant.) Shortly after the last Synodical Conference
at New Ulm, Missionary Lankenau, after seventeen years of
faithful and blessed labor at this station, accepted a call to
Napoleon, O. That was a heavy loss for the congregation
and for the Negro Mission generally. During the long vacancy that followed,
Prof. Wenger of Luther College, despite his much
work, faithfully looked after the orphaned congregation and served it for
over a year. After many fruitless efforts the
Commission succeeded in winning another missionary in Pastor A. Witt of Lockport, N. Y.
He was installed on 26 September of last year. Recently he accepted a call to a white congregation in
New Orleans, and this station is thus vacant again. In the
school three colored teachers work: Aaron Wiley and the brothers
Wm. and Napoleon Seeberry. The latter, however, has now been transferred to the Bethlehem
station and in the autumn will be replaced by a graduate of Luther College, Miss Edna Thomas. The
congregation numbers 334 souls, 150 communicants and 20 voting
members. The school has 175 pupils and the Sunday school 98.
The Mission owns church and school. This station too pays regular
monthly contributions to the mission treasury.

Bethlehem. (Missionary: Pastor G. M. Kramer.) This station
has been able to be built up peacefully in the last two years, and although it shows no strong outward growth, it has, under the devoted,
conscientious care of its missionary, nevertheless grown stronger inwardly.
It is true that Teacher Bruns left his post after only a short period of service and moved to Illinois; but the Lord gave
the orphaned school a replacement in Candidate L. Palm from the teachers' seminary at Addison;
the latter was installed on 5 September 1909 and
has worked with blessing ever since. Missionary Kramer, besides his congregation in New Orleans, has also done mission work in the State of Mississippi and
founded a new station; more of this later. Mr. J. F. Odendahl, who had served the Bethlehem school for a number of years with devotion and as best he could — he was provisionally appointed —,
was dismissed because of increasing bodily infirmities; Teacher N. Seeberry was transferred to his
former classes. The Bethlehem
station numbers 208 souls, 65 communicants, 18 voting members,
124 school children and 75 Sunday school pupils. It contributes regularly to
the mission treasury. We have a church and school here.