The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1928, Page 146

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THE LUTHERAN PIONEER.

Twenty-Fourth Report of the Board
for Colored Missions. :
July, 1926, to July, 1928.
(Concluded.)

Special Details.

1. By the sudden and unexpected death of
Pastor Carl Gausewitz, for many years President
of the Synodical Conference, our Colored Missions
have lost a warm friend. May he rest in peace!

2. Miss Rosa Young, through whom God called
us to the fruitful mission-field in the Black Belt
of Alabama, is still ill. But on days when she felt
a little better than usual, she has worked at her
biography. On July 6 she wrote: “By the help
of God I was able to complete the story of my life
on July 4. I hope the material will meet with
your approval and help to warm the hearts of
many for our missions. Since I wrote you last,
I have been very sick, and at one time I thought
that I should not be able to complete my book.
But the Lord has been merciful and gracious to
me and enabled me to finish it on July 4.”

8. The Joint Synod of Wisconsin passed a reso-
lution at its ‘convention in August, 1927, guaran-
teeing the sum of $73,000 during the next two
years for Colored Missions. In doing this, it takes
over fully its proportionate part of the support of
this enterprise. The growing interest of this body
during the past five years in our Colored Missions
is probably due to two circumstances: First, the
calling of missionaries from the bounds of the Wis-
consin Synod; secondly, the official representation
of this body on the Board for Colored Missions in
the persons of Pastor Walter Hoenecke and Presi-
dent Im. F. Albrecht. Also the Slovak and Nor-
wegian synods each have a representative on the
Board.

4. New Missionaries. —In the past two years
the following pastors have entered the service of
our Colored Missions: 1. Lloyd R. Gauthreaux,
a graduate of Immanuel Lutheran College in
Greensboro, N. C., ordained August 28, 1927.
2. Prof. William Gehrke, of Augusta, Mo., installed
as professor at Immanuel Lutheran College in Jan-
uary, 1928. 3. Cuthbert Malloy, a graduate of
Immanuel Lutheran College, ordained and installed
as assistant pastor at Kannapolis, N.C., June 10,
1928. 4. Felton J. Vorice, a graduate of Immanuel
‘Lutheran College in 1927, ordained and installed as
pastor of the three congregations in Charlotte,
'N. C., June 5, 1927. 5. J. Wilbur Twitty, a grad-

uate of Immanuel Lutheran College, will enter the
faculty of Alabama Luther College, Selma, Ala., in
September. 6. Candidate Clifford Bliss, a graduate
of the Seminary in Springfield, Ill., was installed
as pastor of Holy Trinity Congregation at Spring-
field, Ill., August 5. 7%. Candidate Ernest Mueller,
a graduate of Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, was
installed as pastor of the colored mission in Cleve-
land, August 5. 8. Candidate Paul E. Schauer,
a graduate of the Seminary at St. Louis, was in-
stalled as pastor of Immanuel Church at Cincin-
nati, September 2. The following have left the
service of the mission: 1. Rev. Eugene B. Cozart;
2. Rev. Paul FE. Gose; 3. Prof. F. C. Lankenau;
4. Prof. Hans Naether; 5. Rev. Wiley H. Lash;
6. Rev. George Kase, September 2, 1928.

5. The Mission Personnel. — The following
workers are at present in the service of our Colored
Missions: a Director of Missions; two white super-
intendents and one assistant superintendent (the
superintendents also serve mission-stations), .five
white and four colored professors, several of whom
are also active in the ministry, two colored matrons
and three female teachers at our colleges, twelve
white pastors and one white helper (Rev. Ad. H.
Poppe in Little Rock), one colored superintendent,
twenty colored pastors, one white teacher, eighteen
colored male teachers, 50 colored female teachers —
a total of 121 persons (twenty-three white and
ninety-eight colored). ‘Two years ago the number
of workers was 113.

6. Mission Properlty.— Our Colored Missions
own two colleges, three professors’ dwellings (in
Greensboro), eighteen chapels, four chapels which
also serve as schools, thirty-one combined chapel-
school buildings, nine school-buildings, eleven par-
sonages, one teacherage ($550), and three small
dwellings, which serve as homes for janitors. The
property enumerated represented a value of about
$430,000. The Board is taking steps at the present
time to ascertain the exact value of all its holdings.

7%. The Mission Board asks that the Synodical
Conference confer on it the right to sell.

8. In connection with No. 6 the Board asks that
its charter be revised and amended. Among the
things that should be changed is the name of the
Mission Board. The name now is The Missionary
Board of the Evangelical Lutheran Synodical Con-
ference of North America for Missions among the
Heathen and the Negroes, -of St. Louis, Mo.,—
twenty-four words. How would Synodical Con-
ference Missionary Board be?