# Synodical Conference Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1924_S55
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of the Ev. Luth. Synodical Conference of North America. 1924. 55

field. He will probably also bring a mission station into being in Jacksonville, Ill., and likewise take steps to reopen the mission school in Springfield in a year. The congregation comprises 80 souls, 57 communicant members and 14 voting members. Last year these contributed the sum of $1,807.12 for church purposes, each confirmed member thus on average $32.29. There are probably few white congregations that can show a better giving record.

60. St. Philip's, Chicago, Ill. (Founded in March 1924. Missionary: Marmaduke N. Carter, since March 1924.) Among the 139,000 Negroes in the metropolis of Chicago, Missionary Carter held the first service on Sunday, 2 March 1924, in the hall of the Y. M. C. A. for Negroes. By mid-July he had gathered 36 souls and 27 communicant members. With God's help a fine congregation will probably arise in Chicago.

61. Cincinnati, O. When the Synodical Conference [Synodalkonferenz] met two years ago in Cincinnati and celebrated its golden jubilee there, P. Georg Kase* became acquainted with a few Lutheran Negroes who come from North Carolina. Services were arranged. He taught a class of 12 confirmands who are ready to join the Lutheran Church solemnly. In the spring the six white congregations in Cincinnati (1,200 communicant members) resolved to collect $10,000 for the purchase of a building for the Negro Mission. They ask the Mission Commission to appoint and pay a white teacher for the mission school to be opened and to pay half of the missionary's salary. In view of this active mission spirit the Commission for the Negro Mission has resolved to enter into the plan and to do mission work among the 35,000 Negroes of Cincinnati. May other Lutheran congregations in northern cities that have acquired a large Negro population follow this fine example of the Cincinnatians!

Our Educational Institutions.

Like the great majority of higher institutions of learning for Negroes in this country, our institutions too have set their entrance requirements very low. One begins with the third or fourth grade of elementary school. The natural consequence is that the "students" do not get far. In February 1923 Prof. G. Mezger, the undersigned, Director Smith of Greensboro, as well as Director Hugo Meibohm and Dr. H. Nau of Luther College in New Orleans held a meeting at Luther College in which plans were drawn up for a reorganization of higher education, to which the Mission Commission then committed itself. Instruction is to begin with the eighth grade. The institutions in New Orleans and Selma are to do the work of a junior high school and the institution in Greensboro the work of a high school.

1. Immanuel Lutheran College in Greensboro, N. C. In the school year 1922—23 178 pupils attended the institution. The faculty consisted of 8 white professors and 2 colored women teachers. As a result of the introduction of the new entrance requirements the number of students in the school year 1923—24 was smaller: 143 students, who were taught by 7 white professors. With this school year the last class of the preparatory school has now also ceased; so it is to be expected that attendance at the institution this fall will take a large