# Synodical Conference Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1912_S38
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38 Proceedings of the twenty-fourth convention

was carried out in such a way that Prof. R. A. Wilde was entrusted with the directorship and a professor was called. After Pastor Ed. H. Schmidt of the St. Paul's station had at first helped out at the college for a year, Pastor H. Meibohm of Crowley, La., was called and was installed in his office on October 1, 1911. The number of pupils was 27 in the school year 1910/11, and 23 in the school year 1911/12. Of this year's graduating class two boys intend to enter the seminary in Greensboro in the fall, and the two girl graduates are available as teachers. Both girls have proved themselves well in the practice school. Five more pupils of the institution (one of these a pupil of last year) have also been won for our church, so that of the present number of pupils only two are not Lutheran. One of these would gladly join us if her father were not the pastor of a church of another faith; the other would also gladly come to us, but her relatives are all strong Catholics. — The faculty asks the Honorable Synodical Conference to grant $100.00 for the purchase of a number of apparatus and the like for instruction in natural history, and at the same time $10.00 annually for the enlargement and completion of this collection, as well as a further $10.00 annually for the enlargement of the library. The Greensboro faculty will probably also have a similar request. The institution's property represents a value of about $7500.00. At the time it cost $5181.90. The building lot, for which $850.00 was paid, would bring $3000.00 today. — The faithful God has crowned the work of our professors in both institutions in these two years with blessing, and has also graciously guarded and preserved teachers and pupils from misfortune and serious cases of illness. For this we want to thank him from the heart. And when we pray to God in the church prayer: "Bless the orthodox educational institutions for the equipping of faithful laborers in thy vineyard!" let us then also think of our institutions in Greensboro and New Orleans.

Miscellaneous.

1. The LORD of the Church has again transferred a warm friend of the Negro Mission [*Negermission*] from the Church Militant into the Church Triumphant, namely Pastor C. F. W. Sapper. Pastor Sapper rendered our mission valuable service for many years as occasional editor of the "Missionstaube" [*Mission Dove*], as chairman of the commission, and as visitor in the mission field. On July 23 of last year, at half past four in the morning, the LORD allowed him to enter into eternal rest. May his memory remain among us in blessing!

2. In the commission elected two years ago another change occurred last September. The chairman of the commission and editor of the "Missionstaube," Pastor Hermann Meyer, was compelled by illness to leave St. Louis and to accept a call from the North. On the occasion of his departure from the