"Mohr to Basel"

Partly printed in Heidenbote 1876 p33. The main material of interest in the printed passage is the number of candidates for baptism (21 men), the employment of 7 on the building, and the missionaries' determination that they should learn orderly and regular work so that they should not be dependent for their living on the sad activity that passes for trade. Their baptismal training includes being taught to read. In the passages not printed are the following points of interest: The letter concerns the plans for building the mission house in Begoro. It appears that the idea of a two-storey house has been evolved by Mohr himself on the grounds of the saving which will be involved if they do not have to create such large area of roof space and foundations as would be needed if the mission house was a single storey building; with an equal length of store houses etc. in a parallel single storey as he found was the case at Kibi. In Abetifi was built a 2 storey-house.

11.02.1876

11.02.1876

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