# Synodical Conference Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1912_S40
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40 Proceedings of the twenty-fourth convention

verly, Iowa, $800.00 together with $20.00 in interest. Among the charitable gifts is also the Johann Scheve Foundation of $1000.00 for poor students in Greensboro, N. C. Father Wilhelm Waltke Sr. of St. Paul's congregation in St. Louis has repeatedly sent gifts of $200.00 and $300.00. M. in Sheboygan, Wis., twice gave $500.00. Another friend of the mission, H. K. in Spring Valley, Wis., appears in every monthly receipt of our treasurer with a gift of $20.00 to $30.00. May the LORD repay the persons named, like all other givers near and far, for their love, according to the riches of his glorious grace, and raise up for our mission ever more patrons and friends!

6. The resolution to appoint a special Mission Director [*Missionsdirektor*] in the interest of the Negro Mission has been carried out. The commission, in the name and by the commission of the Honorable Synodical Conference [*Synodalkonferenz*], elected the well-known senior of our Negro Mission, Director N. J. Bakke. The appointment has proved a good one. True, up to the middle of July of this year an additional expense of about $2100.30 has thereby accrued to the mission treasury; but the success of Dir. Bakke's energetic work outweighs this expense by far. The Honorable Synodical Conference will surely be ready to hear from Dir. Bakke's own mouth a report on his activity; therefore we forgo further details here. — The commission has drawn up a regulation for the Mission Director, which can be submitted for discussion and adoption.

7. The "Missionstaube" [*Mission Dove*] now has 26,200 subscribers (increase: 2400), the Lutheran Pioneer 6200 (increase: 700). Both mission papers ought to have a far wider circulation. Our mission treasury would then certainly have larger receipts. That the net profit of both papers in the last year has decreased somewhat compared with the preceding one is because, owing to an announcement in the "Lutheraner," payment was heavy at the end of 1910. — Prof. R. A. Bischoff, who has edited the Pioneer so admirably for 34 years already, asks that this work be taken off his hands.

8. The present workers in the Negro Mission are: Mission Director N. J. Bakke; in Louisiana the pastors and professors Alb. O. Friedrich, G. M. Kramer, Ed. H. Schmidt, R. A. Wilde, H. Meibohm and the two Negro pastors Chas. Peay and Eugene R. Berger; the teachers E. A. Vix, D. Meibohm, W. Schrieber, Louis Pollert (newly called) as well as the Negro teachers Aaron Wiley Jr., Nap. Seeberry and Wm. Seeberry; in North Carolina the pastors and professors F. Berg, M. Lochner, J. Ph. Schmidt, F. Wahlers, H. C. Messerli as well as the Negro pastors John Alston, Fred Ford, W. H. Lash, John McDavid, Carrington March, C. P. Thompson and Otho Lynn (newly called); the teachers F. Alston, E. A. H. Buntrock, M. N. Carter, Evans W. Reid; in Mississippi Negro pastor Louis Anderson (newly called); in Missouri Negro pastor James Doswell; in New York Negro pastor William O. Hill; in Virginia Pastor Emil H. Polzin. Total: 35, 16 whites and 19 Negroes.