# Synodical Conference Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1912_S28
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28 Proceedings of the twenty-fourth convention

in the Ladies of Independence Hall, a Sunday school. It already counts 23 children. Student Paul Lehmann of Luther College is to hold weekday school this year in the said hall, and Missionary Schmidt intends to preach there regularly in the afternoon also. In the part of the city that lies between our three stations also, in his opinion a school and at the same time a preaching place could certainly be called into being. With God's help he wants to begin at least a Sunday school in this quarter also.
Bethlehem. (Missionary: Pastor G. M. Kramer.) The congregation counts 231 souls, 74 communicants and 16 voting members. Pastor Kramer has worked here for five years with great faithfulness and great skill and has besides, in two longer vacancies, served the Mount Zion congregation. The condition of the congregation is thoroughly gratifying. The morning service is attended on average by 83 persons, the evening service by 96 and the weekday service by 33. The members have a fine understanding of church matters, lead a Christian life and are intent on bringing the Gospel to other Negroes also. They also give according to their powers for the maintenance and extension of the church. The congregation's income rose in the year 1911 to $745.56. Its monthly contribution to the mission treasury, which at the beginning of this year was $25.00, it has gradually increased and in January 1912 resolved to deliver from now on $40.00 monthly. Last year the congregation erected a new iron fence around church and school and raised the cost, $90.00, itself. The Sunday school has grown considerably in the last year, and this growth continues. The weekday school too has experienced gratifying growth, so that the spacious sacristy, in which the lower class was housed, became too small. The sacristy is at present being enlarged and converted into a schoolroom. The cost, which will amount to $100.00, has already been raised by northern friends of the mission who were visiting New Orleans last February and also visited our mission. The teachers of the Bethlehem school are: W. Schrieber, Napoleon Seeberry (Negro) and the newly called teaching candidate Louis Pollert. The school is worth about $3000.00, the chapel likewise $3000.00 and the building site $1000.00. It may also be noted that in recent years Pastor Kramer has preached every Tuesday afternoon at the Old Folks' Home to about 20 hearers.
The Carrollton station (New Orleans), which was given up many years ago as hopeless, was reopened by Missionary Kramer in the spring. Teacher Nap. Seeberry is holding school there in a rented hall with 52 children until into the summer. Possibly Teacher Pollert will take over the school. In that case Miss King will continue to work in the Bethlehem school.
b. Napoleonville. This place lies about 60 miles west of New Orleans. It is a small town of 2000 inhabitants. The