"Haas to Basel"

Reports that evangelistic conversations usually end up with the comment that if the missionaries would give them money, they would become Christians. Another Christian has had to be excluded, this time for trading in rum, but there seems every prospect that he will be reaccepted in due course. At a recent celebration of the Lord’s supper there were 6 communicants in addition to the three missionaries. He now gives a figure of 7 girls and 6 boys on the station for education. It appears that the elders and the king have been sending their children to school spasmodically, but withdrawing children from school is one of the sanctions threatened and used by the king in quarrels about use and ownership of the mission hill.

01.12.1859

01.12.1859

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