# Synodical Conference Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1922_S36
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36 Proceedings of the twenty-eighth convention

main a white faculty exclusively. 2. The Mission Board recognizes as the ultimate aim to develop our missions into self-supporting, self-governing, and self-propagating congregations, and hence considers it but natural to train Colored workers for the faculties of our colleges. 3. The Board is favorably disposed to establish a Normal High School in Alabama. The teaching force shall be Colored.

[The preceding lines are printed in English.]

5. The Mission Commission. Since Rev. J. W. Schulze left the Mission Board in January 1921 by accepting a call into the Minnesota District of the Honorable Wisconsin Synod, the Board, by virtue of the right conferred on it, supplemented itself by the election of Prof. Th. Gräbner of the theological Concordia Seminary in St. Louis. — At the request of the Commission and with the consent of President Gausewitz and of the committee elected by the Synodical Conference in August 1920, President G. E. Bergemann of the Wisconsin Synod appointed provisionally, at the beginning of 1921, two (advisory) members of the Commission from that synod, namely President Im. F. Albrecht of Fairfax, Minn., and Rev. W. A. Hönecke of Milwaukee. Together with these two members three plenary meetings have already been held in St. Louis. It can be reported here that this arrangement has proved a very good one. It now depends on what the Honorable Synodical Conference wants to do in this matter. It may be briefly mentioned here that the Wisconsin Synod has set $20,000 in its annual budget for our Negro Mission and has also this year furnished its first mission worker, namely the candidate for the ministry Walter H. Beck. — Since the Negro Mission is expanding more and more and business is piling up and many long meetings have therefore become necessary, the Commission resolved in April 1921 that the regular meeting should in future no longer be held monthly but only every two months. Two of these six annual meetings are to be plenary meetings; that is, all members, including those from the Wisconsin Synod, are to attend these two meetings. In the interval the current business is handled by an executive committee, which then reports regularly on its activity. The chairman of the Commission, the mission director and the treasurer form the executive committee. — The terms of office of the following members of the Commission have expired: Prof. Georg Mezger, Treasurer Ewald Schüttner, Rev. L. A. Wisler.

6. The Jubilee Collection. On the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the Synodical Conference the Mission Commission addressed itself to all our congregations with the request for a thank offering for the Negro Mission. It had three illustrated circulars printed: 1. Bringing the Negro Children to Jesus. (Intended for the children of the school and Sunday school.) 2. A Message to the Young People of the Synodical Conference of North America. 1872—1922. 3. A heartfelt request to the esteemed women of the Synodical Conference.