Over the whole station area the increase in the Christian community in the year was 220. Nevertheless movement into the church is still a matter of individual decisions though among the great mass of the people many acknowledge the truth they are…
This is partly printed as an annex to the 1898 Annual Report pp 51.52. Additional material: The Obrechts arrived early in the year to take over from the Haasis family, due to go on leave. The Mission Festival in 1897 was held in Nkwatia at the same…
Of the two roads from Kwahu to Asante-Akim the one through Obo, Akwasihu to Bompata is the better. - being much more travelled. To avoid going the same road both to and from Asante-Akim, however, the missionaries usually-travel into Asante Akim among…
Reports, up to September, a serious drought, with foodstuff being brought into Abetifi from many hours away. He himself ascribes the lack of rain to the cutting down of the forest in Kwahu, partly in pursuit of food farms (the average length of work…
Paints the picture of the pressures of debt and the sources of debt. He offers as one example a Toseng Christian Moses a man in the prime of life, still working off a £5 fine he suffered after committing adultery in his heathen days by working for…
Reports on the life of the Missios House in Anum. They have 14 boys living with them, 6 from Gyakiti the rest from other areas. This is an unusually large number, since they have difficulty arranging to pay them all etc. With them they have planned a…
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