# Synodical Conference Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1916_S79
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of the Ev. Luth. Synodical Conference of North America. 1916. 79

2. In view of the fact that both Dr. Stub and, with his consent, his son have expressed the earnest wish that the planned conference take place, we hereby commission our committee to hold the conference on the points objected to in the "Opgjör" as soon as it can in any way be done.

3. The committee is also authorized to undertake all further doctrinal conferences that seem to it appropriate.

W. Bröcker,
H. Speckhard.
W. H. T. Dau.
F. Pieper.
Theo. Schlüter.
Justus H. Naumann.

II. Negro Mission.

Since the commission's report was available in print and had been distributed among the members and guests of the convention, it was not read aloud. The following is the commission's report for the period from August 1914 to August 1916:

Introductory Remark. In former years it was our custom to introduce the biennial report on the *Negermiſſion* [mission among African Americans; the period's term "Negro Mission"] with an edifying meditation. That was possible as long as the mission was still small and therefore less was to be reported. Four years ago, however, it was thought expedient, in the interest of space and time, to depart from this long-established custom. The report which the commission now herewith dutifully presents to the Honorable Synodical Conference shows a further departure from its predecessors, in that it does not present the individual mission stations — 51 in number — one after another, but gives in separate sections a general survey of the progress and state of our Negro Mission. In this way we shall have time and opportunity for a somewhat fuller treatment of subjects which otherwise could not well be treated fully. Whoever is particularly interested in statistical data, which in earlier reports were to be found in the presentation of the individual stations, may study the statistical table appended to this report; there he will find everything arranged clearly.

1. The Field of Work of Our Negro Mission.

At present we are working in eleven states, namely in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Illinois, Louisiana, Maryland, Missouri, New York, North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia, as well as in Washington, D. C. In New Jersey the small preaching place Caldwell, which Missionary Hill