"Eisenschmid's Report for the First Quarter of 1867"

Includes an introductory comment about the significance of the shortage of European workers which is distinctly other than classical calvinism. He writes that if there were a great hunger and thirst for righteousness in Akim, blessings would no doubt stream down - as it is he needs another missionary in the district to enable them to get nearer to the people. His report of the community mainly concerns the Dazu (Dagu?) case and about the patience and anxiety the case involved for the missionaries. He also briefly mentions one David Kese who has never caused them anxiety as an example of the possibility of this type of person being in the Christian community. One of their scholars had almost been forced to leave them recently by being put into pawn after his newly widowed mother had refused to marry his father's heir (his nephew), following which her family had had to pay back the 18 dollars they had received at her marriage and wanted to put the son into pawn to help cover the payment. An uncle on a farming village had helped to avoid this however, after the boy’ earnest pleas to be allowed to remain at the school.

27.03.1867

27.03.1867

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