The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1914, Page 70

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these chapels soon if the work at these places is
not to be crippled. Estimating the cost of a chapel
at $1,000, we must have $10,000 to erect these ten
chapels. ‘The new school which is being built at
Salisbury will cost $600, and it is quite probable
that we may have to build a chapel at St. Louis
in the course of the coming year.

_A conservative estimate of our expenses for the
next year would therefore be about $45,000. Now,
it ought not be a very difficult matter for the
members of our Synodical Conference to gather
this sum, since we number more than a million
persons. And among these many souls our Colored
Mission has many warm friends. In the last two
years our liberal unknown friend has donated
$2,000 to the cause, dear old Papa Waltke gave
$600 for Immanuel College and besides this several
gifts of $200 and $300 each; a friend up North
gave $2,000, a lady donated $1,000, a Christian
in Nebraska presented $1,000, and N. N. in In-
diana sent in $400, N. N. in Michigan donated
$400 for a chapel, and Mr. Graupner in Luther-
ville gave $200 for the same purpose. - Mr. W. Mei-
lahn, of Oak Park, in the last two years continued
to remember our colored students, and Mr. Andrew
Werling, of Ossian, Ind., and Mr. W. Spiegel, of
Fort Wayne, presented our Mission with a number
of chapel organs. God bless all these kind donors,
and in His grace awaken still more friends for
the work. The work has expanded nicely during
the past few years, and it would be a pity indeed
if this expansion could not continue for lack of
funds. (

MISCELLANEOUS.

1. Since the last report, made two years ago,
two changes have occurred in the personnel of the
Board. Mr. Doederlein, who served the Board as
treasurer for four years with singular fidelity, was
compelled to resign because his business made it
necessary for him to remove to Chicago. -Mr. J. H.

* Schulze, 2211 Holly Ave., St. Louis, Mo., has

been kind enough to take upon himself the arduous
duties of treasurer of the Board. The Board lost
another faithful member by the resignation of
Rey. Hallerberg. He was a member of the Board
for six years.

During the past two years the Board held 36
meetings. ‘These meetings generally took up a
whole afternoon. In fact, the business of the

Board has so increased and the frequent meetings
of the Board take up so much time that the Board

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suggests that an executive committee of three be
appointed to take charge of all routine business.

2. Our Mission Papers.— The Missionslaube
has 26,500 subscribers, and the Pronrer has 6,500.
Neither one of our mission papers is being read
as extensively as it should be. While the Board
and the editors have earnestly tried to increase
the number of readers, their endeavors have met
with but poor success.

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Convention of Synodical Conference.

The Evangelical Lutheran Synodical Conference
of North America held its biennial sessions August
12—18 at Milwaukee, Wis., in the church of Rev.
O. Kaiser. ‘lhe Synodical Conference is a union
of several Lutheran church-bodies in the United
States, the basis of union being not so much a
matter of external ecclesiastical relation as rather
unity of doctrine. The following Lutheran synods
form the Conference: The Synod of Missouri,
Ohio, and. Other States, with its twenty-two dis-
tricts, the Synods of Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michi-
gan, and Nebraska, and the Slovak Synod of Penn-
sylvania. ‘This Conference of Lutheran synods was
founded in 1872, in Milwaukee. The meetings of
the Conference are held every two years, and
besides doctrinal discussions our Colored Mission,
which is jointly carried on by all the synods com-
prising the Conference, is the main subject of
consideration. Rey. C. F. Drewes, chairman of the
Colored Mission Board, submitted his very in-
teresting and comprehensive report on the progress
of the Mission during the past two years to the
assembled delegates. A number of suggestions
made in the report were favorably acted upon by
the Conference, and recommendation will be made
to our congregations to help carry them out. A more
extensive report on the proceedings of the Con-
ference will appear in our next number.

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Mission Services ‘Held at the Convention of
the Synodical Conference.

Mission services in the interest of Negro Mis-
sions were conducted in four different churches in
Milwaukee on the evening of Sunday, August 16.
In each one of these four mission services three
brief addresses were delivered on the various phases
of the colored work to large audiences. Among
the speakers were former missionaries to the