814 20 77903 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 11.01.1872 Proper date: 11.01.1872 Description An account of the resource The health of the missionaries was bad- Kromer's health is broken, and Lodholz suffered severe attacks of fever especially in the first 8 months of the year, being apparent1y twice near to fatal illness. Kukurantumi was visited 8 times, Asiakwa 7 times, and one long journey was made to Begoro. Kwabi is given an accolade for his ‘free and open manner', the missionaries regret that he will no longer work for them when David Asante moves to Kukurantumi. Numerical account of the community in the year. Two girls excluded from for marrying heathens, one youth excluded for not attending services and carrying on in a heathen way, another young man excluded for adultery, a Christian woman excluded for adultery - this resulting in the break-up of one of the few Christian marriages - 4 boys left the Boarding School, one to return to his home, three to go to the Middle School in Akropong of whom one has since run away. 4 Christian adults moved into Kibi (some had belonged to the community before) and there was one new baptism. The report on the atmosphere of the community is depressing - a general apathy seems to have been characteristic of the year. A cook of Kromer, who had been bought out of pawn by the missionaries, and had some other long-standing debts paid for him, lost 20 dollars gambling in the hope the process would, be repeated. It was not, and he was sold. A cripple, given a copy of the new Twi bible for Christmas was angry that he did not also get the customary cloth. Married life is unsatisfactory - wives will live away from their husbands for months if they come from another village, and they and the husbands do not possess much common property. Three young men in the community have not pursued plans to their living by handwork (2 cases) and teaching. Numbers in the school stand at 24 - since the new school building has two rooms and comfortable space for 50 they have been holding lessons in one of the rooms really intended for dormitories. The hostility of the Okyenhene is the greatest difficulty facing the School. Sometimes his anger has put the very axistence of the school into doubt. They have, however, also had diffiCulty in the course of the year with the laziness of some of the boys. Preaching to the heathen happens so infrequently in many places that though the missionaries do preach from texts, or on subjects which occur to them as useful, on the whole what they, like to do best is preach a brief salvation history. He is concerned, however, at the relatively little amount of their preaching which is understood. There are 13 catechumens, including 4 girls. The latter almost all lack a proper grounding in Biblical History and therefore have to learn to second part of the catechism by heart and then have it explained to them. The rest of the catechumens are boys who are taught out of the confirmation booklet, most of them learn Biblical History in school and the confirmation booklet by heart. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.23.VI..11 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.23 - Ghana 1871: D-01.23.VI. - Kjebi Title A name given to the resource Annual Report for 1871 (Lodholz' Writing) Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 23.02.1880 Proper date: 23.02.1880 Description An account of the resource Statistics for the year: Missionaries - the Ramseyers only. Catechist - Stephen Sakyi (married) Teacher - Emm. Dako (married) Reports a difficult year, at the beginning of which the station did not have a graveyard, while now there is a graveyard (one hundred paces on the path to the water, on the left side) with the graves of two missionaries - Werner and Lodholz. The Ramseyers themselves had serious illnesses in the last quarter of the year, with a touch of yellow fever. They decided they must have a change of air and went to Begoro. They had a year of mixed progress in the Christian community also. Three days after Werner’s death youths were baptised. But the reception of these was not without its anxieties, since while in several you could see the beginnings of conversion, and the beginning of the work of God -in their hearts in three there was a troublesome superficiality, although since they had zealously attended Baptismal instruction and showed a great desire for baptism. Ramseyer had not felt he could put them off. However it transpired that one of them had committed theft actually while being instructed for baptism, and a little later one of them had to be excluded for adultery, and there seems to be little hope of his being re-accepted since although he himself told the missionaries of his 'fall’ despite their warnings he has lived far away from the station since. The other had been a servant of Werner's, and had learned to read and write. Since his 'fall’ Ramseyer has taken him as his own servant and has been satisfied with his conduct. One of the newly baptized whom it gave Ramseyer great satisfaction to bring into the community was one James Boaman, He had announced himself among the first candidates for baptism, but since he served the chief as stool-bearer strong pressure was put on him to give up this plan. He was made to swear the king's oath that he would not give up his duties, so he gave up his Christian instructions, since he said his oath had made it impossible for him to become holy (the last phrase Ramseyer implies was a quote). When it became known that there was a second group of baptismal candidates this same man came and asked Ramseyer to intercede with the king on his behalf in order to get the king to 'give' him his oath so that he could become a Christian. The chief's answer was very shortly 'No’ - although Ramseyer said to him that he was making a quarrel not with him but with God. And a few days later the man came and said he had been released from his oath and at the same time the chief had said that he would have no member of this family serving him in future. (NB the chief's original reason for refusing to allow Boaman to be baptised was that he feared the angry spirits if this happened). The Christian community goes forward on the whole in the usual way - a few months before four of its members had be to build their houses on station land, and they attend the Sunday services and the bible study and Thursday prayer meeting regularly. However the missionaries need to care for the new members very carefully the more since they often leave Abetifi for several weeks on journeys. Ramseyer is very satisfied with the progress of the school - 10 of the boys have been baptised on 1st Feb 1880 – Ramseyer never had a baptismal instruction class which gave him so much joy. 4 of the boys are 16-17 years old, the rest younger. Two young men from the town have joined them (one is an Asante) and one the first of three woman of Abetifi to come forward for baptism - she is aged about 50. Because of the death of Werner and his own sickness Ramseyer has travelled little in Kwahu, although Sakyi has preached widely. One of the most visited towns has been Mpraeso, and Ramseyer looks forward to the day when there will be an outstation here so that southern Kwahu can be visited more regularly. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.31.XV..167-168 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.31 - Ghana 1879: D-01.31.XV. - Abetifi Title A name given to the resource Annual Report for 1879 Written by Ramseyer Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: January 1883 Proper date: January 1883 Description An account of the resource Personnel - Chr. Burckhardt died in April 1882 after being in Begoro since October 1881 - yellow fever. Mrs. Mohr died in August 1882. Catechist Sakyi is often rather depressed. Anoff in Fankyeneko has to battle constantly against apathy. He doesn't know how to win respect, and is a friend rather than a teacher. In many of his villages (Dwenase and Abompe named) many people are in the toils of the truth, but without an effective catechist. Ntow has no school in Anyinam, and in any case the catechists do not like schools tying them down for 4 days in the week. (There is no school at Begoro nor has been one since 1881 -even the christian housefathers are against it.) The Begoro community lost 20 people in the course of the year - 11 moved away, 5 died, 4 were excluded. 8 were gained - 2 baptisms of heathen, 2 Christian children were born, 1 person was re-admitted, and 2 Christians moved into the town. Mohr is not happy about the 'religious' state of affairs in Begoro. Sunday attendance is good, and the women come to bible study and prayer meetings, but the evening school is badly attended, no women attend morning prayers (some men do) and in the evening they have to be called to evening prayers individually. One problem is that people expect to a greater or lesser extent physical blessings, and troubles are a sore temptation to them, especially as the fetish priests are quick to suggest that the fault is their religion. They are too preoccupied with clothes. They have had trouble enforcing church discipline, and getting people to contribute to the freewill Sunday Offerings. In family life husband and wife are very seperate ('Do you pray together?' 'Obo nede, me nso, mebo mede' i.e. she prays for her things, and I pray for mine). They don't teach their children to pray. Christian heathen relationships are unfortunately very good. There is little difference between the two - the heathen hear the word of God quietly and with respect. One problem in Begoro itself is the 'games' which they have received from the Fantes, and through them from the Europeans. Everyone is a member of the 'game clubs', and rivalry between them has already led to brawls. Nevertheless Mohr knows a many people sceptical about the fetishes, and troubled by 'the truths'. The church in Fankyeneko is almost collapsed. Only 5 adults remain, the chief supporter is 'fallen' and there have been 5 deaths, among them that of Oscar Kuma the elder who sadly lapsed on his deathbed as a result of family pressures, despite the efforts of the catechist to protect him from them. A woman on the point of being re-admitted fell again - the problem is her husband's 9 month absence in Fante. Catechist and people are living in a heathen village, the new house for the catechist, not quite finished, is deserted. In Anyinam there has been trouble with the chief. He was reported to Accra, called to Akropong, and given a good talking to. 3 members have lapsed, one was the elder Jonothan excluded for adultery, the second another man, the third a woman who deserted her husband - she was childless. There were three adult baptisms - one of them of a man who had been a ferociousc opponent of the Christians (the members said 'You have baptised the devil himself') and three infant baptisms. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.35.V..80 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.35 - Ghana 1882: D-01.35.V. - Begoro Title A name given to the resource Annual Report for 1882 for the Station of Begoro Written by Mohr Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 04.02.1884 Proper date: 04.02.1884 Description An account of the resource The report is mostly printed as an appendix to the 1884 Annual Report of the Mission, pp 77f. Additional material One of the people excluded in Mpaeso had stayed for a long time in Fante, and found the church discipline of the Basel Mission too atringent. They had discussed starting a school in Mpraeso, but decided against it on the grounds that many children are pawns in Kwahu, and the rest have to help their parents on their farms. Personnel on the station: Sam Boateng came to Abetifi as catechist from the Teacher’s Seminary at Akropong. Teacher Dako left for Akira, and was replayed by Catechist William Mansa transferred from Asunafo. Catechist Boateng while taking some classes in the Boarding School is more busy with pastoral work and is supposed to carry out preaching tours 2 days each week. Preaching tours in 1883 were carried out partly by Nataniel Beko, and evangelist, working especially in Sakraka and Obo. In the former towards the end of the year he had a large number of hearers and it is possible there will be catechumens in that village soon. In Obo they cannot get a stable entry - many people say if there was a catechist they would become Christians, but equally the missionarias feel they should have at the beginnings of a community first. They have got as far as agreeing the price with the owner of a plot of land on a hill between Obo and Tweneduruase, but the Tweneduruase chief is raising difficulties because of his fetish which has some connection with the land, and the Obo chief will not help them though his intervention would be sufficient to settle the matter - he would prefer to sell the missionaries a plot of land in the valley and further away from the town. Ramseyer comments that if they were under the Protectorate it would be easy to settle this, but as they are not, they must have patience Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.37.VI..95 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.37 - Ghana 1883: D-01.37.VI. - Abetifi Title A name given to the resource Annual Report for the Station Abetifi for 1883 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 29.01.1879 Proper date: 29.01.1879 Description An account of the resource A part of this report is printed as an appendix to the 1879 Annual Report of the Basel Mission. Buss in his journey to Salaga purchased a horse and some cattle for Abetifi - no information is offered as to their survival. The church was consecrated and the first baptisms celebrated at Whitsun 1878. Discussing the people baptised Ramseyer says he has never seen people so serious at their baptismal service. Certainly some of them have caused the missionaries anxiety through their restricted knowledge, and have needed directions and warnings to keep them on the right lines, nevertheless they are willing and obedient and intend to be Christians in the true sense of the word. He offers an example of the sort of difficulty which has arisen - one of the baptised men Benjamin Osee announced to Ramseyer that he had sent his wife away (Ramseyer explains that the sign of this is throwing white earth onto the wife's foot, or making a white-earth streak on her back). The trouble was that although his wife, who was a heathen, wanted to have their young child baptised her mother did not and the wife and he had argued fiercely about the matter, at the end of which he had taken the advice of a heathen woman bystander and sent the wife away. Ramseyer explained to him that the Christian loves his wife and mother-in-law and in spite of the difficulties prays that God will bring them to wanting to have the child baptised, and advised him to go and sort things out. This he did after a few days, and some months later the mother in law was content to see the child baptised, this made a good impression on the families who saw thereby that the mission stood on the side of what they saw was right in the situation. This same woman is the mother of the most earnest of the new Christians, (Nathaniel) and almost a year ago sent her youngest daughter into the service of the missionaries. But she will not let her third child become a Christian (this is Benjamin Osee's wife) since if she does there, will be no-one to perform the customs for her when she dies. After the first baptisms they had expected to find themselves with a class of three baptismal candidates, but it turned out that two of the people involved thought that at baptism their debts would be. Paid. Only one went on with a long course of baptismal instruction and was baptised on 20th October, Daniel Dente. A slave born in the house and consecrated to Dente at an early age. His master was opposed to his baptism until he saw that the Christians are not outside the traditional law providing it is not in opposition to Christianity. Services on the station on Sunday morning are not well attended by people from the town - but they are at their farms. In the evening there is usually about 300 people at the evening service held under a great tree in the main street. They listen very attentively, and it was through street preaching that the five baptismal candidates were brought into the church. He reports a case which appears to represent Dente reactions to the Christians. One of them, Johannes Ata had been helped by Missionary Werner several months ago to pay a debt. He had incurred it several years before living in Kibi. In October Ata’s brother came to Abetifi from Krakye - he seems to be the right hand man of the fetish priest there - and therefore his financial position is sound. For several weeks nothing happened, and then the brother explained to Johannes that he would pay the debt if he gave up being a Christian. The latter refused although this was discussed several times, and in the end the brother threatened to shoot him if he ever came into the town. The missionaries persuaded him not to flee to Akira, and complained about the behaviour to the Chief, but it seemed that the man had such power in Abetifi and was so angry everyone was afraid of him. In the end little trouble occurred only on Christmas day, when the Christians were going out of the station to the town dressed in the clothes which they had obtained for themselves. He rushed on them - one was slapped in the face, another had his hat destroyed. The Christians returned to the station, the missionaries complained to the chief, and the man promised not to molest his brother or the Christians again. In 28 days of preaching journeys the missionaries have travelled through the whole of Kwahu, and many of the main towns have been visited 6-8 times. Kwahu has 5 real towns, 6 large villages, 12 little villages, as well as a number of hamlets. They have failed to visit only one of the little villages Peteko on the other side of the Afram, 5-6 hours from Abetifi, and the seat of the well-known fetish Fofie - a very influential fetish to whom each year a great number of Kwahus make pilgrimage (Ramseyer has been using the horse now that it has got acclimatised to lighten the burden of the travel). Ramseyer describes a journey to the fetish Buruku - the tall rock pillar in Kwahu, in early November. The way led through the village of Bakuruwa (nearby is a beautiful waterfall called Ko Abena), Tafo (where they avoided revealing the purpose of their journey, since the Buruku priest lived in that village) and afterwards the Ahenase way branched from the track they were on. They reached a strongly flowing stream, and then after 2-3 minutes the plantation of the slaves of Buruku. Ramseyer describes these as being from the interior, living in a hamlet of 10-12 houses, He explained to them that it was not necessary for missionaries to ask permission to go to places and there seems to have been no opposition to his visit among these few villages, although Ramseyer later heard that the priest in Tafo had fined them a sheep for allowing him to go up to the rock face. From the village the rock face was 4 hour of tough climbing away – Ramseyer reckons the slope at 50°. They first visited it by moonlight on the night of their arrival in case by morning some messenger from Tafo should have come to prevent them. The only signs he saw of sacrifices etc. under the rock were the actual sacrificial rock with an overhang acting as a roof, and the yellow splashes of eggs. By day at this level the view was hemmed in by trees. The rock itself was too vertical to be climbed. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.30.XIX..258 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.30 - Ghana 1878: D-01.30.XIX. - Abetifi Title A name given to the resource Annual Report for the Station Abetifi for the Year 1878 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 02.01.1884 Proper date: 02.01.1884 Description An account of the resource 3 additional families now housed on mission land at Anum. No preaching tours on the part of Asante, although he has been preaching and visiting assiduously in the Anum villages Apenkwa, Amanforo and Amoana. (Occupied with building). Movements in the Anum community: 2 births, 1 person moved here, 7 were baptised (2 wives of Christian husbands, 1 foster-child of a Christian family, and 3 heathen youths.) Increase of ten, against which must be set a loss of 6, 5 through moving away, and one child in Asante's own family died, He is not optimistic about the morale of the community, citing two cases where a Christian asked his opinion on a matter to do with his religion and practice, gave a very disillusioned answer. Events in Boso shamed Asante of his lack of faith. The community there increased by 40, Christians moved to Boso, one child was born to Christian parents, and 32 were baptised (all in November and December), 11 children and 21 adults, All the married men but 4 were baptised with their wives. On the baptism day their heathen relatives gave those who were baptised presents of cowries, food, and animals. The Christians sang and prayed late into the night Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.37.VII..105 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.37 - Ghana 1883: D-01.37.VII. - Anum Title A name given to the resource Annual Report for the Station Anum for 1883 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 16.01.1881 Proper date: 16.01.1881 Description An account of the resource Written and signed by Mohr. The personnel of the station at the end of 1880 includes Gottlieb Munz and Stephan Sakyi as catechist, at Fankyeneko catechist William Emmanuel Obeng. David Huppenbauer was on the station for 6 months, then was transferred to Kibi. For a short while too Frederick John Okanta was in Begoro as teacher, working mainly in Anyinam, however. He was then transferred to Tumfa in the Kibi district. Benjamin Ntow was transferred to Anyinam, and Stephan Sakyi came to Begoro in his place. In describing Sakyi's work it seems that some re-organisation of the life of the station had occurred. His job in the daytime was to start afresh the community school. In the evenings be held an evening school for the adult members of the community. They have not been able to teach reading in the evening school. An effort will be made in the future to teach people to read before baptism. Obeng in Fankyeneko with his far-flung responsibilities and the problem of building a house (not yet completed) is discouraged, not working so well, and has asked to be sent back to Akwapim. Ntow in Anyihame is doing well and has at last got married. Schools - in Begoro clashes over whether boys were to be allowed to leave school for the snail-hunting season continued and a meeting of the people had decided that they would only send their children to school if the mission paid the parents some money each month. Instead on the station they have set up the community school. Heathen parents may send children, providing they pay 3d p.a. school tax, and deposit 2-/p.a. as a guarantee of regular attendance on the part of their children. By the end of the year there were 8 children in the school, 3 of them heathens but accepted as members of the community, since they were to be baptised in the forthcoming year, and sere living on the station. In Begoro too they had had the idea of starting a girls' school under Mrs Mohr, but they are having difficulty even getting sufficient numbers of girls to work in the house. Most come from Kukurantumi. The parents are adamant in not letting their girls come into contact with the mission station and this has been the case ever since two girls said that having been given instruction in the church they would not marry heathen. In both cases the girls were eventually drawn back into their family circles. In Fankyeneko out of a school group of 6, 5 have recently gone into classes 2 & 3 at the Kibi Boarding School. The school has been able to recruit more children, however and is still about the same size. In Anyinam there was great eagerness for schooling among the children, but the mothers took them away to do their work in the farms and the gold-diggings. There are only two Christian children in Anyinam, and they are 2-3 years old. Christian Communities - altogether over the course of the year 25 people have joined the Christian community in Begoro, 13 in Fankyeneko, and 10 in Anyinam. On the other hand they have lost 10 in Begoro, 2 in Fankyneneo, 1 in Anyinam, and 2 in Dwenase. The total of the Christian community in the district is therefore 110. In the course of the last three years 16 people have had to be excluded. Of these only three have maintained their links with the mission and been re-accepted. The losses are partly among people who want to live towards the world and who want to be unwatched and who find it difficult to separate themselves from their heathen families and move into the Christian villages. In fact these are the people who have little 'inner life'. The people who are on the stations enjoying community prayers daily agree that it is very necessary for them to be separated from the heathen, although indeed traffic with the heathen town is not forbidden. Certain professions present special difficulties for the conversion of a man, traders, for example. Mohr describes the ethics of trade and the average trader in extreme terms. They a people who do not wish to work, live on credit, waste their time, force payment of debts. He has refused to help Christian traders with credit. The problem with the hunters is not that the ethics of their profession are against then but simply that they are away in the forest for a month at a time, meeting only the middle men who take their meat to the towns. Since they cannot read, they are without any spiritual food, and the family is very backward too if they continue to live in the heathen towns. Marriage in the community continues basically on heathen lines - man and wife live separate lives. The Christians live idly too, and have debts. Even when people have money they do not pay cash, but buy on credit, and when a man comes to collect his debts in the usual heathen way there is pandemonium. And while people usually have money to buy fine cloth oil, hats and umbrellas they have none when, it comes to paying church tax. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.32.XIV..158 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.32 - Ghana 1880: D-01.32.XIV. - Begoro Title A name given to the resource Annual Report for the Station Begoro in 1880 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 30.01.1888 Proper date: 30.01.1888 Description An account of the resource The Christian quarter in Anum has grown from 13 houses to 22 in the course of the year, although only some of the near ones are completed. Personal changes in the course of the year: Teacher Amaning was posted from Anum to Tschatei and Gyadu from Larteh took his place. Chr. Asiedu from Boso was to go to Amvoi, but because of boundary discussions between the Basel and Bremen Missions this was not carried through and he was taken out of the area, He was replaced by Catechist J. Afari and Teacher J. Okyere. The Assistant Catechist Imm. Boakye from Kibi took over Toseng. The personal of the district had undertaken 67 day's travelling – Asante’s only journey seems- to be the one reported in his report for the second quarter (No. 135 below). The Anum community lost 13 persons through all causes, and gained 2 children born to Christian parents, 7 Christian adults moved onto the station, and 46 heathen and heathen children were baptised. At one stage he had (30 presumably adult) catechumens, of whom some lapsed, and some whose baptism he put off on the ground they were not yet ready for it. As for the ‘inner life’ of the community morning prayers-are not as well attended as Sunday Services. He comments that the members of the community approach the Elders first usually about problems, and without the knowledge of Asante himself. The missionary zeal of the community has especially been concentrated in one woman, now called by the heathen ‘Suku-moni’ - i.e. mother of the Christians. Many of the heathens will not now let her into their houses - a fetish priest in Toseng described her as a 'dangerous person’. Zeal in prayer seems more concentrated among the women also. With a few exceptions married life in the community is satisfactory, but the bringing up of children leaves something to be desired in terms of both clothing and parental control. The women surpass the men in their singing, too, again thanks to the zeal in organising Singing meetings shown by the Mother of the Christians Maria Abena. In the course of the year the order of the community was careful gone through, and dealing in pawns, which was threatening to creep into the community, dealt with. They have been working too in the Anum villages - Dodi, Toseng, Nkwakubew (there are 3 Christians in the latter), Apenkwa, Amoama and Amanforo. Their practice now is to spend the whole second part of Sunday in these, their street preaching being adapted to a whole service. In the Boso community they lost 9 members by all causes, and gained 7. The number of scholars increased by 3. These disappointing results were due to a lack of unanimity among the members – many irregularities in the community have been brought to light. There had previously been only one elder the leading spirit in the community, but he has now been joined in that office by two others. Npalime - increase of 6 by baptism of heathen and birth of 2, but lost by exclusion and death 4, while 25 Christians moved away, though out of these the new community at Tschatei was formed. Tschatei increased by baptism of 2 adults, and 3 Christians moving into the town. Beyond his journey to Nkonya in the second quarter Asante also journeyed 14 times in the year to Boso Kpalime. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.47.VI..138 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.47 - Ghana 1887: D-01.47.VI. - Anum Title A name given to the resource Annual Report for the Station of Anum for 1887 (Written by David Asante) Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 14.01.1886 Proper date: 14.01.1886 Description An account of the resource During the year the station was strengthened by the arrival of Missionary Tschopp and Missionary Sitzler. The year was bad from the health angle. Tschopp almost died of a fever, Mrs Dilger was badly ill with rheumatism, and towards the end of the year the two oldest Dilger children were badly ill with fever. Catechist Afwireng had to return to Akwapim because of bad health, and in his place Kofi Eliezer was set to Kwahu and stationed in Bepong. Catechist Mensah refused to be transferred to Agogo. Catechist Kwabi was instructed over the course of the last year to concentrate more on Mpraeso. Evangelist Otieko leaves much to be desired in his work in the Abitifi town school, in terms of his both zeal and tact. Evangelist Beko works well, and through him the outstations in Nkwatia and Bepong have been brought to life. The Abetifi community gave the missionaries a lot of trouble. During the year Dilger managed to get all the Christians to move onto the mission land - several had begun houses and managed to complete them for this, others built themselves 3 large temporary huts to use till they had built their proper houses. Though some of them finished their houses, several went travelling when their houses were only partly finished, and the uncovered walls fell down. Several Christians had to be excluded because of coarseness and intentional sin. On the whole the Christians were moved by a bad spirit that broke our hearts. God persued them and punished them, but they took no notice. The smallpox epidemic resulted in a large number of deaths, and 2 adult and two child Christians died. The missionaries hoped this would drive the Christians to a greater earnestness but it only made a deep impression on a few of them. Mpraeso on the other hand gave the missionaries such joy. The Christians there are good, zealous, and serious. A few excluded Christians were re-accepted, and several people baptised. There are a number of baptismal candidates awaiting baptism in 1886. Bepong, having no resident teacher in the first part of the year has no new Christians, although since a teacher was posted there several people have come forward into the catechumenate, including two old men. In Nkwatia 4 young married men have been baptised, and there are 4 catechumens. The missionaries have found themselves involved in two palavers during the course of the year. (i) The Abetifi chief and one of his elders had a dispute and the elder swore the Kwahuhene's oath against the Abetifi chief. The Abetifi chief, however, refused to go the Kwahuhene's court since this was in itself an act of humility towards the elder. The elder's supporters got together and urged the Abetifi chief to go the Kwahuhene's court. The Christians appealed to Dilger to intervene because they feared strife and the ruin of the town, and Dilger willingly did this on behalf of the mission work as well. They appealed to the Kwahu king to go to Abetifi to settle the dispute - he refused their request, but nevertheless followed back to Abetifi 2 hours later, informed the missionaries of his arrival, and settled the dispute. (ii) King Atta at Kibi had his fingers in another problem which threateded to blow up into serious strife, but Dilger dealt with this by writing to him asking if he were going to withdraw his messengers or not. After a few days this was done. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.43.V..135-136 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.43 - Ghana 1885: D-01.43.V. - Abetifi Title A name given to the resource Annual Report for the Year 1885 for the Station of Abetifi Written by Dilger Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 18.01.1886 Proper date: 18.01.1886 Description An account of the resource Personnel of the Anum Mission District: David Asante Teacher H. Amanin at Anum Teacher Chr. Asiedu at Boso Monitor R. Dapa at Boso Teacher J. Okanta at Palime. There seem to have been no journeys into Nkonya-Buem - at any rate Asante's main preaching journey (of 57 days) was into Fante land, and involved the selling of books as well. The Anum community increased by 15 in the course of the year - 5 heathen adults baptised, 2 heathen children baptised, 5 people moved to Anum who were already Christians. 1 was re-accepted, and 2 children were born to Christians. On the other hand 4 members had to be excluded, and 3 moved away. There are now 13 houses on the mission land. The progress of the community is discussed only in general terms - there are no family prayers, but they attend prayers conducted by the teacher. They are less mistrustful of the missionary than heretofore. Some members of the community feel a missionary urge towards their own people - sadly these are all illiterate. One woman especially is cited for her busy advising of newly declared Christians. In family life the main criticism is the blind partiality which parents show to their children instead of exercising discipline. They use Luther's little Catechism for instructing their catechumens. Around Anum street preaching has gone on regularly in the villages of Onyano and Toseng, where however, they have made little impact. Also in Dodi and Pekwakubew. In Bosone 1 person had to be excluded from the community, and 4 Christians moved away. The community increased on the other hand by through the baptism of 4 heathen adults and 3 heathen children. 3 children were born to Christians, and 3 Christians moved to Bose from elsewhere. Hostility on the part of the heathen declined towards the end of the year – partly because the costly gifts received from ex-Gold Coast missionaries in Europe (a Communion set, and a steel bell) impressed the chief considerably. They are digging as well in Boso. In Kpalime the community consists only of the teacher's family, and the family of the first converts. They and the catechumens want to live away from the heathens, and ask the Basel Committee to help with the purchase of the land for this. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.43.VI..143 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.43 - Ghana 1885: D-01.43.VI. - Anum Title A name given to the resource Annual Report for the Year 1885 for the Station of Anum Written by David Asante Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 05.02.1881 Proper date: 05.02.1881 Description An account of the resource Reporting on the personnel on the station, the little Ramseyer child died in June, Dilger arrived in January. Mid-August Sakyi the catechist was moved to Begoro - he had himself asked for a transfer. In his place came Phillip Kwabi. Commenting on the change Ramseyer writes that Sakyi, despite their advice, always left something to be desired in his work. Kwabi is not as gifted as he was, but he has a desire to do his work, and a love for it. He has not got involved with other activities. His friendly way of doing things has made him many friends. The community has increased by 17 to 41. 13 people were newly baptised in Feb 1880, and only one has lapsed - an Asante who had to be excluded from the school because of disobedient and improper conducts. There were 10 more baptisms on Christmas. 3 'young people' and one woman are from Mpraeso (the woman is the wife of the elder of the community). The youths from Mpraeso are living on the mission station - two more underwent a long course of instruction, but discontinued it for no specific reason. Others among this group of baptisms were a house-boy of Dilger's, and a servant-girl of the Ramseyers, who been with them 3 years, and had given them much joy with her quiet character. She had persisted against considerable family opposition - unfortunately since her baptism her mother has died and she has had to go back to her house to help her sister look after the children. (Her Christian name is Salome).Another is Martin Dako from Pepiase - an ex fetish-carrier who was earmarked as his uncle's successor as fetish priest, but gave up his connection with the fetish despite family protests when he discovered his younger brother was trying to poison him. There were also 3 boys from the boarding school, whom Ramseyer had kept back from being baptised earlier. Two of the young men in the community had to be excluded in the early months of the year for following the flesh. They have appeared penitent and attended services regularly, but Ramseyer is afraid that their enforced stay in the town will have not helped them to live up to Christian standards. During the year they lost their first member of the community through death - Isaak Tieko. His hometown was Agogo in Asante Akim, but he was a pawn of a man in Kwahu. He died suddenly with a high fever and abdominal pains. Although reserved in his speech his quiet character and childlike faith caused the missionaries great joy. In the community here and there small steps of progress are to be seen. 'One point on which I lay especial emphasis is that our Christians should be always busy’. Like most of the Africans here they are not used to persistent work, and like to spend two or three days in each week laying around. At first they cannot understand what the object of it all is, but after a while they see that the object is to help their growth in grace. 3 of the Christians have houses on mission land now, the rest want to, but their heathen wives will not let them. Preaching journeys have been many - most of the towns and villages of Kwahu have been visited several times. There is evidence that this is having its effect – already they have baptised people from Mpraeso and Pepease, and a man from Aduamoa has been attending Sunday Services regularly. And when in Obo they heard that Mpraeso was to have a resident catechist, they petitioned for a teacher. Obo with its 5-6000 inhabitants would make a fine field for mission work in itself. He gives finally the latest political news from Kwahu. At the time of writing the report he was in Aburi having been advised to bring his wife to say there by the Governor. Dilger was waiting in Begoro to see what would happen. But they have just heard that a meeting of the Kwahu chiefs has decided to remain independent of Asante, and had sent 3 messengers to the Governor to inform him that rumours to the contrary were false. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.32.XV..162 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.32 - Ghana 1880: D-01.32.XV. - Abetifi Title A name given to the resource Annual Report from Abetifi for 1880 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: August 1847 Proper date: August 1847 Description An account of the resource Signed by Widmann. Printed in Annual Report of the Basel Mission 1847, pp 132-142. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.02.(1847).I.,14 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.02 - Ghana 1842-1848: D-01.02.(1847) - Akropong and Christiansborg: D-01.02.(1847).I. - Akropong Title A name given to the resource Annual Report from Akropong Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 09.01.1868 Proper date: 09.01.1868 Description An account of the resource According to the statistics, either there had been no new building, or only a catechist's house had been put up during the year. Klaus and Müller are listed as missionary residents: Obuobisa the catechist was absent at the time of writing. Members of the community are listed as 5 (there had been 6 in previous year), 2 communicants, plus 4 from other communities, 11 pupils in the school. Reports a major change in that over the last quarter of 1867 there was a much more active interest in the school. Previously fetish prohibitions had been feared by most parents, also they could not see any usefulness in education. (He says he cannot explain the change, though they have God to thank for it. He then goes on to describe what had happened in the last quarter without saying explicitly that the explanation lay in what had occurred) - in September the harmonium had arrived, and this increased attendance at services - there was something new to look at and hear. Also since there was no catechist, Müller got the few scholars who had been at school for some time, and could read, to read the bible before he preached at the open air services. This, and the pupils' singing, astounded the people, and aroused their interest. Many boys have said that they would attend schoool but have not yet got their parents’ permission. ‘Obviously some of the people feel nearer to us now, they feel we are not so strange, they have almost become confident in us and when people don't trust each other the work of salvation cannot be carried on’. Of course, the pupils are not yet catechumen, but Müller hopes that in time this will happen at least in some cases. It is an unfortunate fact that, as elsewhere, they have to pay the pupils for coming to school. Each one receives 1 head cowries each month (Müller gives the equivalent 2 franks 25 centimes), and the necessary clothes. The mothers usually cook the boys food – and tend to feel that the money payments are supposed to be enough for the food. But Müller has explained to them that they are just gifts, and he cannot raise them - as would be necessary if they were supposed to cover the cost of food. They do not believe this. Everything needs presents here, and indeed, many boys do not know their father, and their mothers are poor and have to look after themselves. So it is necessary to find a way to help the children. There are few properly organised families here. Their relations with the Anum people have been good: the only problem is that they are pestered for presents by the chief and elders. There are, however, many Ga people, mostly individuals who are escaping from debt or the results of some crime, and have lost all reputation and respectability in their own country. They live by theft and trade, do not farm for themselves, but try to find someone else to provide them with food. They mislead the Anum people into theft and lying, and the Anum people regard them as their teachers, for in the worldly skills of carpentry and building they are, in fact, ahead of them. Of the 4 Christians in the Anum community, all of them had lived 5 hours away, all but one has now moved to quarters at the mission. A child was born during the year to Christian parents: there are no catechumen. In talking about the slight effect of street-preaching, he remarks that really very few of the Anums understand Twi. For the last month the Bator road has been open, though not completely safe. There are two subscripts from Mader .The second concerns the language problem in Anum. He had visited the town, and conversed with people of both sexes in Twi. Muller's problem is that he does not yet Speak Twi properly. There is also a subscript from Schrenk which sees the Mission soon facing financial problems because of the rapid spontaneous expansion around Abokobi, and in that context regrets that Müller has adopted this expensive way of running a school — it will be almost impossible to withdraw from making these payments. He too feels Müller should learn the language. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.19b.IX..14 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.19b - Ghana 1867: D-01.19b.IX. - Anum Title A name given to the resource Annual Report from Anum for 1867, written by J. Müller Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource Printed in Missionsmagazin 1847, pp 131-139. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.02.(1846).II.,13 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.02 - Ghana 1842-1848: D-01.02.(1846) - Christiansborg: D-01.02.(1846).II. - Akropong Title A name given to the resource Annual Report from Widmann and H.N. Riis Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 1888 Proper date: 1888 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context A-01.22,97-98 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: A - China: A-01 - Letters and reports from China / Briefe und Berichte aus China: A-01.22 - China 1888: A-01.22 - Lilong Title A name given to the resource Annual report in Chinese letters by Lin Tschonghin by Loercher. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 1863 Proper date: 1863 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context A-01.05(1863).1,11 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: A - China: A-01 - Letters and reports from China / Briefe und Berichte aus China: A-01.05 - China 1863-1866: A-01.05(1863): A-01.05(1863).1 - Hongkong Title A name given to the resource Annual report of Hongkong station and Girls' School. By Bender. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 1862 Proper date: 1862 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context A-01.04(1862),20 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: A - China: A-01 - Letters and reports from China / Briefe und Berichte aus China: A-01.04 - China 1857-1862: A-01.04(1862) Title A name given to the resource Annual report of Hongkong station. By Lechler. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 1908 Proper date: 1908 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context A-01.43,90 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: A - China: A-01 - Letters and reports from China / Briefe und Berichte aus China: A-01.43 - China 1908: A-01.43 - Tschonglok Title A name given to the resource Annual report of Ku Loi min. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 1863 Proper date: 1863 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context A-01.05(1863).2,25 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: A - China: A-01 - Letters and reports from China / Briefe und Berichte aus China: A-01.05 - China 1863-1866: A-01.05(1863): A-01.05(1863).2 - Lilong Title A name given to the resource Annual report of Lilong station by Eitel. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 1866 Proper date: 1866 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context A-01.05(1866),46 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: A - China: A-01 - Letters and reports from China / Briefe und Berichte aus China: A-01.05 - China 1863-1866: A-01.05(1866): A-01.05(1866) - Lilong Title A name given to the resource Annual report of Lilong station. By Bellon.