# Synodical Conference Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1916_S91
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of the Ev. Luth. Synodical Conference of North America. 1916. 91

declared themselves ready to be confirmed, and, if I am not mistaken, are already being instructed by our missionaries. Receipts in both school years: tuition: $174.75, gifts: $35, from the mission treasury: $661.70, from the mission treasury for salaries: $3990. Total receipts: $4861.45. Expenditures in both school years: for salaries: $3990, for the household: $196.15, for poor students: $478.25, tuition turned over to the treasurer: $174.75. Total expenditures: $4839.15.

Our two institutions cost us much money. It is thought that it was a mistake to call two higher institutions into being at once, and we have been advised to close one college. But that is not so easy. Further information on this can be given orally on request.

7. New Chapels.

For the ten chapels which were authorized two years ago and were to cost about $1000 each (not counting the building sites), about $10,000 has come in. We have to thank, next to God, Mr. G. M. Telle in St. Louis for this, whose well-known plan was published in the July number of the *Missionstaube* ["Mission Dove"] of 1915 and has proved itself well.

Three chapels have so far been erected. The building together with the site in Atlanta, Ga., cost $1700, the completion and improvement of the chapel and school at Rosebud, Ala., both under one roof, $833, and the chapel and school in Mansura, La., both under one roof, $1275. For Trinity Chapel at New Orleans a building site, 52×120 feet, was bought in July for $500. The building (chapel and school under one roof) will cost us about $2000. It is probable that the construction work will already have been begun when this report is presented. In High Point, N. C., we bought in December 1914 a fine building site, 54×200 feet, for $300. The chapel is to be erected this autumn. Although an unnamed friend gave $1000 this year for Spartanburg, S. C., we have nevertheless not been able to build there yet, because prospective sellers of suitable building sites think we must build, and demand altogether too high prices. When the chapels named are finished and paid for, our mission treasury will be empty. And yet we ought as soon as possible to buy a lot in Wilmington, N. C., and build. Our missionary works there in a wretched, unhealthy place. The dear Christians are therefore urgently asked to continue giving for new chapels and to bring help speedily. In large circles of our Synodical Conference [*Synodalkonferenz*] gifts are being offered for the church-building fund as a thank-offering for the blessed Reformation of the Church, whose four-hundredth anniversary we shall observe next year; should there not also everywhere a few crumbs