"Tschopp to Basel"

The bulk of this report is printed in Heidenbote 1888, pp76ff. Additional points: It is impossible to preach if there is a fetish ceremony at which the bulk of the people are present. Dente is a normal sight at the entrance to a Kwahu village. At the end of the report he summarises his impressions of people's reactions to preaching. One point is that he writes withing the framework of having a good idea, when he is addressing a crowd of people, which of them have attended preaching in that place before. He offers a collection of the characteristic responses when he goes into a house to invite people to preaching: ‘Asempa, nokwasem yebaba abetie’ – though he remarks that this is often said idly. 'Yen de, yesom obosom, na mode, mosom Onyame’. 'Yesom obosom na yesom Onyame’. ‘Mesom me yafunum na meson Onyame’.

19.04.1888

19.04.1888

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