1) Things belonging to a station should not be taken to another station, but new things should be bought. 2) Schiedt will write on financial affairs. 3) Financial things. 4) About the West Indians: a) Approximate costs of the settlement for this year…
Good health, baptism of two Osu carpenters, difficulties to touch the heart of the Akwapims (pp 1-2). About the relations to the young brethren: Not easy, especially in the question of the treatment of the West Indians. But nevertheless living at…
About his work: Difficulties with Mullings, the repair of the sawing machine not yet finished, trail at brick burning, watch repairing, building of new houses, teaching the masons to make a proper stone wall, dispute with Widmann on how to build.…
Not much time to learn Twi. School useful for him, becomes freer to preach in English (p 1). Palaver of a young man who wanted to kill his uncle by magic and the punishment he got (pp 1-2). Street preaching at Davu. Visit by Buafo, the second after…
Full text: “My dear brother, I send my kind love to you and my grandmothers. Please will you be so kind as to tell my grandmothers that I intend to be baptized and wish to know from them whether they will agree to it or not; I have nothing to send…
1) Sad that the committee is not ready to send more brethren. Need for more workers even to carry in the work begun. 2) Why they had so great expenses. 3) Alexander Clerk is again teaching at the West Indian school. He is not yet proficient enough in…
Personal news. Dieterle has fever. What could be the basis for the life of the West Indians? He advised them to make ground nut oil. They do it, it is a good oil, but now there is a groundnut mill at Anamabu and so there is no chance for selling the…
Personal news. The girls touchingly attached to his wife. They are the future mothers. If they can work for 15-30 years quietly among them, the work will bear its fruits. The oranges blossomed fine and there are many fruits in their garden. Lettuces…
Sad that perhaps H.N. Riis will not come out soon, needed for the institute planned for schoolteachers. Hope in school: A seven year old school boy refuses to besmear himself with white clay for his soul (p 1). Without being asked, the children…
They could not finish the repair of the sawing machine and the bricks. The following buildings were completed: 1) A stone house containing the store, the girl’s school room for Mrs. Widmann, and a carpenter's workshop. 2) A Turkey house and also for…
Tells the inspector that it had always been his desire to go to Africa and that he was inwardly disappointed, when first told to go to North America, but then he submitted and was appointed to Akropong to his great joy.
Says that a patent medicine in Germany has been offered to him for a cheap price. Perhaps the inspector would pursue the offer. About the death of Sebald the inspector once had mentioned that Sebald probably found an early death because of his former…
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