# Synodical Conference Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1910_S40
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40 Proceedings of the twenty-third convention

The costs would amount to $1500.00 to $2000.00. —
The Commission submits this request to the Reverend Synodical Conference for
deliberation and resolution.

6. Since it has turned out that, since Prof. Gross's departure,
the remaining professors at Greensboro are overburdened with work, and
since presumably the admission of new pupils in the coming autumn
will be a gratifyingly large one, the faculty asks for the appointment
of an assistant teacher from the seminary at St. Louis. The Commission
supports this request, provided the new admissions again bring our College
a larger number of pupils.

7. By resolution of the Synodical Conference at New Ulm the
Mission Commission had been given the commission to draw up a regulation
for our two institutions. Since it is at present uncertain,
however, what will become of our Luther College in New Orleans, and
in what relation the two institutions will stand to each other, if
both continue to exist, the Commission found itself unable to carry out this
resolution, but recommends postponing the execution of the resolution
until the question what is to become of Luther College
has been answered, and in the meantime, as hitherto, leaving the regulation of the
institutions to the respective faculties under the supervision of the Mission Commission.

8. "What is to become of Luther College in New Orleans?"
This question has occupied the Commission again and again. Whence
does this question arise? For the sake of understanding
it let us go back somewhat into the history of our Mission. Years ago the
conviction broke through that it would be beneficial to the prosperity of the
Mission if, besides the white, we also had colored mission
workers; for a colored missionary knows the Negro better,
can deal better with him and influence him better than a white man.
Besides, a colored worker among his own people can be maintained more cheaply than a white man among the mixed population of the
South. So young colored people were also prepared for mission service.
This was first done at Springfield, Ill. But it
turned out that in the long run it would not do to train white and colored
pupils in one and the same institution. So about
ten years ago the question was agitated whether a
special institution for colored pupils should not be established. This idea
was good. Yet it was without doubt a mistake to call two full seminaries
into being, one in North Carolina and one in New Orleans.
In its present condition our Mission does not need two seminaries
for the training of colored pastors and teachers, and the maintenance of
both costs much money, which could find better use in the expansion of our Mission in the
Southern states. So there confronts us here first
the more general question: Since without doubt the simultaneous
establishment of two seminaries in our Mission was a
mistake, shall this mistake continue or not? In the