He presents the school as the answer to the bad influence of idleness in which he sees children passing their days, and says that though Ramseyer in his addresses is always stressing the usefulness of schooling in his contacts with people, and though…
There was an epidemic of influenza during the year due to the exceptionally heavy rains. They are still losing pupils through the pupils' disinclination for schooling. At the end of the year the numbers stood - 48 boarders+ 11 day boys + 15 girls.…
In January 1894 the new school house was consecrated. In Haasis account of the movement of pupils in the school he reports that the Kwahu teacher, Preko, had recruited four relatives, the Abetifi chief two of his own children, a heathen man, who some…
During the year they had a case of a boy whose heathen mother was married to a Christian father and lived in the Abetifi Salem. When he was due to be promoted from the small-children’s school to the Boarding School his heathen relatives would not…
Includes the information that a son of a presbyter called Anno had recently left the school to work on his father's farms after twice going through Class V - the same applied to a step-son of James Boamma, who had gone to help his step-father in his…
The total of the Christian cormunity in the whole mission district has increased in the year from 521 to 660, with Bompata showing the biggest single increase with the baptism of 49 heathens. Land and buildings - the only change apparently was the…
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