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stonference at Cincinnati, O., August 16 to 21, 1922.

sions are very popular. The pictures are good and
the three lectures very instructive. Pastor Theo.
F’. Walther is the manager of these illustrated lec-
tures. The writer takes every opportunity to serve
congregations with these lectures. — Since last fall
Pastor M. N. Carter, one of our Colored workers,
has spent almost all his time lecturing on our Negro
Missions. He has made a good impression where-
ever he has been and is so generally desired that he
is booked for lectures far into the year 1923. Pastor
Stoll assisted Pastor Carter for a short time. —
Last fall Pastor W. O. Hill of Yonkers, N. Y., un-
dertook a concert tour through the Atlantic District
of the Missouri Synod with four students of Im-
manuel College. Upon the occasion of every concert
Pastor Hill gave a talk on our Colored Missions.
If a favorable opportunity should offer itself, it is
the intention to repeat this experiment.

8. Representatives of Negro Missions in District
Synods. — Several synodical Districts have no repre-
sentatives at the present time. The Synodical Con-
ference is requested to fill these vacancies.

9. Property Owned by Our Colored Missions. —
Two colleges, two professors’ dwellings at Greens-
boro, fifteen chapels, five chapels which serve also
as schools, twenty chapels and schools under one
roof, eight schools, ten parsonages, and three smaller
dwellings which serve as homes for janitors. The
total property represents a value of approximately
$225,000.

10. Missionary Personnel. — The following are
in the service of the Mission: A Director of Mis-
sions, a Superintendent in Alabama, who also serves

several stations, nine white professors, of whom
several serve mission-congregations, twenty-three
missionaries (five white and eighteen Colored),
fourteen male teachers (two white and twelve
Colored), two Colored students, who are teaching
school, three Colored female instructors in the col-
leges, a Colored matron, and thirty-five Colored
female teachers. The total number of laborers is
eighty-nine (eighteen white and seventy-one Col-
ored). Besides the above, Prof. Th. Engelder of
Springfield and Pastor Ad. H. Poppe of Little Rock
are rendering valuable assistance.

11. The Needs of the Negro Missions. — About
$125,000 are needed this year to cover the running
expenses; and the same amount will be needed in
1923. We hope to realize $150,000 from the Jubilee
Collection. This sum is necessary to carry out the
building program.

May our blessed Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ,
fill the hearts of our mission-workers with zeal, love,
and perseverance in their laborious, but glorious and
blessed work! And may He make us all more
earnest in prayer and more willing to give of our
substance for this great work, which is becoming
more and more extensive from year to year, and
permit us all, here in time and hereafter in eternity,
to see and realize that it is true what His holy lips
have spoken by the royal prophet David: “Ethiopia
shall soon stretch out her hands unto God.”

In the name and by the authority of the Board
for Colored Missions,

CHRISTOPHER IF’. DREWEs,
Director of Missions.