# Synodical Conference Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1910_S33
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of the Ev. Luth. Synodical Conference of North America. 1910. 33

38 souls, 16 communicants and 6 voting members. — As to
the preaching places Shankletown and No. 5 Township, which were
begun on a trial basis, no report has reached us. — At Concord we have a beautiful church and a
suitable school.

b. Charlotte, St. Paul. (Missionary: Negro pastor John
McDavid.) This mission is making good progress and has good
prospects of growth. Charlotte, the metropolis of North Carolina,
is a splendid city and has a good future. On 7 March
of last year Candidate Frank D. Alston, the first graduate
of the teachers' course of Immanuel College, was installed as teacher in the lower
classes of the school. In the upper classes the missionary
himself keeps school. The congregation numbers 89 souls, 45 communicants
and 11 voting members; the weekday school has 125, the Sunday
school 65 children. Our property here consists of a church with
a school on the ground floor and a modest parsonage. Because of his
many stations the missionary could preach here only on two Sundays a
month. Since the departure of Pastor Peay from Monroe
Pastor McDavid has had to take over his stations again.
To this parish at present belong: Mount Zion in
Meyersville with 27 souls, 13 communicants, 1 voting member
and 50 Sunday school pupils; Bethlehem in Monroe with 18
souls, 10 communicants, 3 voting members and 25 children
in the weekday school (in winter); St. James in Southern Pines
with 44 souls, 19 communicants and 7 voting members. In
the school there were 75 children last summer. This is one of our
most important places in southern North Carolina, since we have not only here
much mission material but from here other
promising places can also be visited. At Southern Pines a
missionary ought to be stationed. The former preaching place Highland Park has
been given up, since the people moved away. — At Monroe, Meyersville and
Southern Pines we each own a chapel.

c. Mount Pleasant, Mount Calvary. (Missionary: Negro
pastor John Alston.) Two years ago this parish mourned the
early death of its capable and beloved missionary Stuart Doswell.
Since then it has had two high days of joy. On 11 July of last
year its new pastor was installed in its midst by Prof. J. Ph. Schmidt, and on 24 April of this year it dedicated with
praise and thanks to God its new, attractive chapel. The latter
cost $700.00, of which the Commission had granted $500.00; the
remainder was raised by the congregation. The congregation numbers
101 souls, 47 communicants, 19 voting members, 20 school
children and as many Sunday school pupils. The missionary himself keeps
school. — To this parish belong also: St. Peter's near Dry's
School House, Cabarrus Co., with 47 souls, 14 communicants,
3 voting members, 19 school children and 11 Sunday school pupils;