The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1924, Page 86

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The Lutheran Pioneer.

6. Missionary Personnel. —A Director of Mis-
sions, a Superintendent in Alabama, who also serves
several stations, seven white and three Colored pro-
fessors, nine white and eighteen Colored mission-
aries, one white and eighteen Colored male teachers,
thirty-seven Colored female teachers. Total num-
ber of laborers: 19 white and 76 Colored. (Be-
sides the above, one white supply: Pastor Ad. H.
Poppe.)

7. The Needs of the Colored Missions. —'The
annual running expenses will require $150,000, and
for repairs and new buildings $63,000 are necessary.

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 enterprise, which is becom-
ing more and more extensive from year to year;
and may He permit us all, here in time and here-
after 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!” Ps. 68, 31.

In the name and by the authority of the Board
for Colored Missions,
; CHRISTOPHER I". DREWEs,

Director of Afissions.

’ Resolutions Concerning Our Negro
Missions.

Adopted at the Convention of the Synodical Conference,
August 20—25, 1924.

1. Synodical Conference gratefully expressed its
appreciation of the fact that our Colored congre-
‘gations are growing in the grace of giving and are
striving to become self-supporting.

2. The Synodical Conference thanked God for
‘the tokens of His good will shown our Colored
Missions again and again.

3. The Synodicdl Conference ‘also expressly ac-
_~ knowledged the faithful services of the workers in
the field, the wise leadership of” Director C. F.

Drewes, and the. ene and untiring’ efforts of
the whole Board.
4, Especial’ hanks were voted Dr. G, Mezger
5 for the efficient ‘service he rendered our Colored
Missions ‘as a’member of the Board. - »
6. The’ following appropriations were’ voted:
pin ‘Hill: ‘Ala, $1,000; Selma, Ala,’ $3,500;
exandria, La., - -$6,000;. High Point, N. C.,

$2,000; Winston-Salem, N. C., $8,000; Spartan-
burg, S. C., $1,500; Mobile, Ala., $5,500; Rose-
bud, Ala., $1,500; Ingomar, Ala., $1,000; Kings.
Landing, Ala., $1,000; Atlanta, Ga., $8,000; Ala-
bama Luther College, Selma, Ala., $20,000;
Immanuel College, Greensboro, N. C., $5,500;
St. Louis, Mo., $13,000; repairs, $300. Total ap-
propriations for buildings, $65,000. (In another
column the reader will find an article explaining
the plan by which, according to the suggestions of
the Synodical Conference, the moneys necessary to
carry out this necessary building program are to
be gathered.)

6. The Synodical Conference expressed its hearty
appreciation of the action of the Cincinnati con-
gregations in furnishing a Colored Mission plant,
and of the resolution of the Northern Illinois Dis-
trict to raise $15,000 for a mission plant in Chicago.

7%. Conference gratefully acknowledged the
labors of the pastors in Santa Monica, Los Angeles,
Free Soil, Detroit, and Cincinnati, who so unsel-
fishly took up the work among the Negroes of their
vicinity and cities, and expressed the wish that
other pastors would follow these sea when
opportunity is offered.

8. The Synodical Conference resolved to en-
courage white congregations in large Lutheran
centers having a large Negro population to emulate
the example of the brethren in Cincinnati, Northern
Illinois, and Detroit and to provide the Board
with a plant to carry on Negro mission work
among them.

9. The Synodical (Confarence was, pleased to
learn that the Board had decided to publish
a simpler Catechism, and voted the author, Direc-
tor Drewes, a special vote of thanks for the efficient
manner in which he has performed the eHuloat task
the Board had set him to do.

10. Coricerning the support of Been natat
and incapacitated white mission-workers and the
support of their needy families, the Synodical Con-
ference passed a resolution which, if ratified by the
venerable synods comprising the Conference, will
satisfactorily and equitably adjust this matter.

11. The Synodical Conference chose the follow-
ing representatives to present the cause of our Col-

_ ored Missions in their several Districts: ‘North

Dakota and Montana District of the Missouri
Synod, Rev. J. P. Klausler; Northern Illinois Dis-
trict of the Missouri Synod; Rev. F. C. Streufert;

‘Southeastern District of the Wisconsin Synod,

Rey. Walter Hoenecke.
12. The Board was encouraged to take the