# Synodical Conference Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1922_S34
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34 Proceedings of the twenty-eighth convention

on whose plantation the widow lives, and says: "Barbara, you have lost your husband. Winter is at the door. How will you get through with all your children?" "Mrs. P., only God knows that." "Barbara, here is $25; you shall have that and more, if you get out of this old German clique (if you get out of this old German mess)." "Thank you, Mrs. P.; but I would rather stay in the Lutheran Church." Was that not steadfastness?

Come with me to Midway, Wilcox Co., Ala. There on her poor sickbed lies old Anna Hill. Neighbors of false belief come day after day and seek to turn her from the Lutheran Church by saying to her: "Now you are being punished because you have become Lutheran." The colored teacher Rosa Young, however, reads to her from the Bible and the Catechism after school. Anna Hill says she wants to die in this faith which the Lutheran pastor preached to her. She gathers her children around her deathbed and exhorts them to remain faithful to their Lutheran church and school. Then she fell asleep gently and quietly. She was faithful unto death; Christ has given her the crown of life. May God only so strengthen us and keep us firm in his Word and faith to our end!

Now in our report some details may still follow which are more of a business nature.

Details.

1. From the 14th to the 18th of June of this year the first General Conference in our Negro Mission met. A detailed report on this important event is to be found in the August number of the "Missionstaube" [Mission Dove] and of the *Lutheran Pioneer*. It was a blessed gathering. In three years (1925) the second conference is to take place in Concord, N. C. May God grant that some day this conference become a synod!

2. On 8 May 1921 our long-time, faithfully deserving co-worker in the Negro Mission, Rev. Nils J. Bakke, entered into the rest that remaineth for the people of God. He reached the age of 68 years and 8 months. In the forty years of his activity in our mission he became to hundreds of Negroes a guide to eternal life. A longer article on his life, work and blessed end is found in the "Missionstaube," 1921, p. 42.

3. The departure of Rev. Bakke leads the Mission Commission to recommend to the Honorable Synodical Conference that it regulate the support of white mission workers who are aged and incapacitated, as well as of needy widows and orphans of white workers. The matter of support for colored mission workers and their survivors had probably best remain for the present in the hands of the board.

4. Our two Negro colleges. — Immanuel College at Greensboro, N. C. In recent