"Stanger's quarterly report"

Baptism of converts and their character (pp 1-5) (Printed: Jahresbericht 1852, pp 243-267). Execution of a repentant murderer (pp 8-9). Visit to Tema. Impressed by the chief there and his noble behavior and clean house. Preaching there (pp 10-14). Journey along the coast to Ningo and then to Akropong (pp 14f). At Prampram: Methodists had a school there, baptised a lot of school children. School cold, class in charge of a trader. Then they went to Ningo and Pony, where they opened schools. This not bad will, but a sort of refined enthusiasm (“Schwärmerei”) (pp 16 f). At Ningo they met a former scholar who was much interested in the Ga Catechism. Passed the night in the open (Printed: Heidenbote 1852, p 20a). Shai, preaching there (pp 19-20). Krobo plantations: received with suspicion, are they perhaps spies of the Government? Alarm in the plantation of Lokko who is in disgrace with the government, but knows the missionaries. Misunderstanding cleared away (pp 20-23). On Krobo mountain, down and towards Akwapim, people run away, because the commander from Accra comes (pp 24-26).

30.09.1851

30.09.1851

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