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…
Arrived yesterday. Description of his temporary quarters. West Indian family Walker accompanies him. He expects an interpreter from the coast. Request for a watch and a bell.
News about a missionary conference in Ussu: 1) Decide that a chapel at Christiansborg is urgently needed. Reasons given (pp 1-2). 2) Stanger was stationed at Christiansborg. This step was needed and the committee will surely approve afterwards. The…
Pleads for Thompson: Submits willingly to the task of supervising the Chapel building. He and his wife cling together. His wife a very good woman. They have no better man available now.
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