"Dilger to Basel"

Reports visiting the house of an elder of Abetifi who had for some time been considering becoming a Christian though the chief and people were set on dissuading him. He found there a tiny starving baby, the mother had died at its birth, and no-one had been found to nurse it not even for money. Dilger offered to send milk for it, though it died a week after. He is downcast by the fact that no-one troubled to inform the missionaries about what was happening earlier although Christians were constantly visiting the house. The mother was a slave, the elder describing her as his daughter.

16.09.1885

16.09.1885

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