"Dilger to Basel"

Again reports a preaching journey in mid-October. Amama - could not decide on which of his prepared texts to preach, but met a fetish priest in the village, and so told the story of the Ark in the Philistines temple, and the catechist following him took the image a stage further by comparing the life of the Christian with what went on the Philistine temple. Afterwards they visited the wife of one of the Abetifi Christians who is refusing to contemplate becoming a Christian herself. They spent the night in Bukuruwa, having first preached, Dilger on the parable of the prodigal son. One man complained that he had come to bring 18 dollars to the grave of a relative - being a Christian had not stopped him dying, not had his debts been paid. In Nteso Dilger preached on the apostolic greeting - 2 Cor 13.13. On the way back from Nteso they fell in with a woman from Abetifi who had been there to make fetish - so Dilger told her the story of the man who went to Rome to get forgiveness, but found out that it wasn't necessary.

24.10.1880

24.10.1880

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