# Synodical Conference Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1916_S94
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94 Proceedings of the twenty-sixth convention

readership. Our goal ought to be, in the year 1917, the Jubilee Year of the Reformation, to bring into each of our approximately 260,000 families one of our mission papers.

The space in the *Missionstaube* has become too small. Our mission has grown, and as a consequence there is also more to report. Furthermore, new missions have been founded in our circles about which our readers also would like to read something. Also the receipts of our treasurer now take up considerably more space than formerly. And finally, the Ev. Luth. Mission Society for China has offered us its little paper "Miſſionsbriefe" [Mission Letters], provided we take its receipts into the *Missionstaube*. For the inclusion of the receipts the society will of course pay us. In any case, therefore, provision ought to be made that more space is created. But since paper has gone up in price, it seems to us that the best way is this, that the receipts be set in 6-point and the reading matter throughout in 9-point, like "Mancherlei aus der Miſſion" [Varia from the Mission] and this report. In this way about a column and a half would be gained for reading matter. The additional expense would amount to about $4.50 a month.

10. Interest in Our Negro Mission outside Our Circles.

Also outside the Synodical Conference (*Synodalkonferenz*), especially in the United Synod of the South, a growing interest is being shown in our mission work. In the official organ of the said synod the following was to be read a little over a year ago: [Printed in English.] "Of all the synods bearing the Lutheran name the Missouri Synod or Synodical Conference . . . almost alone recognized a duty to our colored neighbors, and proceeded to perform it." After a brief summary of our last report the writer then continues: "Sometimes printed reports are at variance with the actual results and real facts in the case. In order to verify the statements, the editor of the Visitor wrote to one of our pastors interested in the elevation of the colored race, and residing in a district in which Missouri's Negro Mission operates, asking him to give his own observations and impressions. He has virtually 'O. K.'d' the statements which have been made. In the letter referred to above, he says: 'The Missouri Synod is doing great good for the colored race here in the South. There are being furnished for this work of Colored Missions sufficient pastors and teachers to keep the whole work under proper direction and control. Then, beginning with the little children, they are instructed in the truths of God's Word and the doctrines of salvation. . . . Missouri is planning bigger and better things for their colored work, and it seems to me that they should have every possible encouragement from