"Abetifi Station's Conference Minutes"
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"Abetifi Station's Conference Minutes"
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Includes an application for £77 to cover extensive repairs needed by the Abetifi mission house - including the roof. There is trouble over the adultery fees regulation in the Abetifi community. In the 1894 Twi district conference it was agreed that wives guilty of adultery should be fined £2, this to be put into a special church fund, and not given to the husband. This has happened in some cases, but by and large this regulation is abhorred by the church members, and also they cite cases occurring in Akim and Akwapim where husbands have received the adultery fee. The missionaries wish this regulation could be changed - adultery fees are 'dirty money', and the Abetifi presbyters argue that it is very rarely that a husband will deliberately put a wife in the way of adultery in order to pocket the fee, and when this happens, it is usually not difficult to see that this has been the case.
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09.06.1898
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09.06.1898
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D-01.69.VI..121
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Reference: BMA D-01.69.VI..121
Title: "Abetifi Station's Conference Minutes"
Creator: unknown
Date: 09.06.1898
“Abetifi Station's Conference Minutes,” BMArchives, accessed May 5, 2026, https://www.bmarchives.org/items/show/100215264.
Title: "Abetifi Station's Conference Minutes"
Creator: unknown
Date: 09.06.1898
“Abetifi Station's Conference Minutes,” BMArchives, accessed May 5, 2026, https://www.bmarchives.org/items/show/100215264.
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CH-4003 Basel
Switzerland
Tel. +41 61 260 2232
Fax: +41 61 260 2268
Email: info@bmarchives.org
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