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LCMS Convention Proceedings St. Louis, Missouri — 1926, Page 126

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- chapels, in the church, or jn the church basement. Of late the North

St. Louis, and Yonkers has shown that the prospects of securing -":

126 Proceedings of Thirty-Third Regular Convention,

total receipts during the last three fiscal years (June 30, 1922, to
June 30, 1925) were $513,434.83. Of this amount, $360,661.14 was
contributed by the Missouri Synod, $43,479.08 by the Wisconsin
Synod, $1,882.08 by the Norwegian Synod. The Wisconsin Synod.
purposes to contribute $17,500 during the present year.

The Needs of Our Negro Missions. — 'T'wo dormitories are needed
at Immanuel Lutheran College. The living conditions of:our stu-
dents in this institution beggar description. One of the dormitories
is now being erected. It will cost $50,000 with equipment; but at
the end of March only $17,319.66 was in the Mission Treasury for
this ptrpose. Of this amount $2,000 has been contributed by our
colored Christians in the Carolinas. The Alabama Luther College at
Selma is already too small and should have an addition, which would
cost about $6,000. In Alabama, where conditions are peculiar, six
simple teacherages are needed. Each building is to cost $550 to $600.
At numerous places cliurches and schools are needed: Birmingham
(about $15,000), Philadelphia (about $10,000), Yonkers (about
$15,000), Atmore, Camden, and Rockwest, Ala. (each about $1,000).
In the Southeastern field, particularly in North Carolina, separate
and modern schoolhouses are needed. In this entire field we have
but three separate schoolhouses, the best of which cost a little over
$1,200. At the other places school is conducted in three annexes of

Carolina cities are spending millions of dollars for Negro school-
houses, and unless something is done very soon, our mission-schools
there will be a thing of the past. According to a very low estimate
$75,000 will be required for new schools. — The recent Negro migra-
tion to the North has made our Northern cities large and promising
mission-fields. Buffalo, Cleveland, Detroit, Milwaukee, and other
cities are calling our Negro Missions. The cost of missionary opera- F

tions in Northern cities is high, of course. But should we leave these. 3

large fields to others? Moreover, our experience in Springfield,

self-sustaining congregations are brightest .in the North, where
Negroes receive higher wages. — Owing to lack of means and men‘
we have been obliged to leave unanswered calls from Oklahoma,
Texas, and six places in Alabama. m4
The opportunities for mission-work among the Negroes who are q

at our very doors.are almost unlimited. Their number has reached “#

twelve million. About half this number is connected with a church, a
often, however, only nominally. . And of those who are connected 4

with a church, multitudes know nothing of the grace of God in Christ.

Jesus. ‘Booker T. Washington, the great Negro leader, who was an- ‘
instrument. in the hands:of Ged to bring our Colored Missions to the’
Black Belt .of: Alabama, . asserts that“three-fourths of the colored: 4