# Synodical Conference Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1916_S93
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of the Ev. Luth. Synodical Conference of North America. 1916. 93

9. What is being done to awaken and increase understanding, interest and zeal for the Negro Mission?

1. Our Mission Director and others give addresses and lectures at synods, conferences and mission festivals.

2. On request we send out mission workers, especially colored workers, who give lectures about our mission in congregations and societies, in German as well as in English.

3. The senior [veteran] of our mission has, by resolution of the commission, written a short, illustrated history of our mission. The German booklet bears the title: "Unſere Negermiſſion in Wort und Bild" [Our Negro Mission in Word and Picture], the English: *Our Colored Mission. Illustrated.*

4. The commission furnishes periodicals, writers, lecturers and others outside as well as inside our circles with reports, statistical material and the like. How good and wholesome that is, our new field in Alabama is a proof.

5. The commission has had two lantern-slide lectures on our Negro Mission prepared. This plan was carried out by Rev. Jesse. He worked out two lectures, both in German and English, and had over 125 pictures made for each lecture. That has cost him much trouble and labor and still costs him much trouble and labor; he must, namely, write a prodigious number of letters in this matter. The Honorable Synodical Conference (*Synodalkonferenz*) is obliged to him for his unpaid and successful work for special thanks. The lantern slides are heard and seen everywhere with interest and bring great blessing.

6. The chief means for spreading information about our work and for increasing zeal for this work are our two periodicals, "Die Missionstaube" [The Mission Dove] and *The Lutheran Pioneer*. Precisely the readers of these papers are also the most zealous supporters of our mission work. Our pastors, teachers and laymen ought therefore all to take the circulation of the two papers more to heart. That ought to be done also because the net profit flows into our mission treasury. The *Missionstaube* has in the last two years brought a net profit of $5684; the surplus of the *Pioneer* was $227. Last January we addressed a cordial word to every reader of the *Missionstaube*, especially to the dear laymen, and asked them to win new readers. The request has by no means fallen on deaf ears. Young and old set to work, individuals ordered and paid for the paper for all non-readers in the congregation, and in a short time the number of readers rose from 26,000 to 27,000. The *Pioneer* has 6500 subscribers. Both papers ought to have a much greater