"Locher's Quarter Report"

Account of a 14 day stay at Abokobi, showing it to be used as the focus of mission activity in the farming villages around, at least as far as the already baptised were concerned. Communion celebrated for the Christians collected from the district on the first Sunday,along with pastoral conversations with Friedrich Adama from Christiansborg who had to be brought to Abokobi on a pallet, and Immanuel Knablang, ex. fetish priest; both had to have the Communion service explained to them, and the latter had to be put right about him claim that since his baptism he had no committed any since. Locher comments that now the first flush of his conversion in past he is finding it hard to win his bread by work. He also gives an account of another visit to Berekuso (Blekuso) where there is not only a crocodile pond but also two fetish sites, hedged in by a fence, so that one cannot see into the holy place.

27.01.1854

27.01.1854

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