"Süss to Basel"

Süss has his own house on his own farm. His regular Sunday preaching is well attended, though he does not count how many people are there. In the daytime he visits the chief and elders - at night he goes to the town to enter into conversation with the inhabitants. The disputations are quick moving and warm, often there are by-standers from some other town or state, and he has heard them to say to each other that white man is right, and the priests are swindlers. The elders are the people who guide opinion during the debates. ‘You speak the truth, and we are all terribly afraid of death’. When he tells them that God has sent his son as a Lord and Messiah who has seized the weapons of the king of fears, and taken his life, and brought evil ways out into the light, they say ‘We can well believe that’. Persistent interrupts are usually quietened by their brothers.

25.10.1854

25.10.1854

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