Beginnings at Aburi: Settling in the new mission house, street preaching, desire of people for learning, even the 80 fetish priests seem to approve. An Akropong servant asks for baptism (p 1). On the West Indians and their future (pp 2-3).
Answers questions of a letter from Basel. Point 2: They shall not officially become chaplains, but the school shall he handed over by the Danish Government and the soldiers receive the permission to participate in the services. But no obligations…
They have executed the decision of the committee concerning Thompson. Thompson submits willingly. This is astonishing, since he could get 2-3 time more salary as an employee of a trader. Mrs. Thompson is very sad over the separation from her…
Proposes an annual conference of the missionaries. There all requests to the committee would have to be discussed first. This is especially important concerning buildings. Brethren requesting to be married should submit their desire to this…
Sad news of death of Rev. Bultmann and another brother. Driven away from the Gaboon by the machinations of the Jesuits. Desire to find a field near the Basel Mission somewhere between Whidah and Accra, perhaps Adda.
Description of his disease and the temptations to desperate during it. Cured by cold baths and bloodletting (pp 1-3). Thankful for medical training received at Basel (p 4). Need that Europeans should settle at Tessing (Teshi) -reasons for this (p 5).…
Printed in Heidenbote 1848, pp 50-52. Beginnings at Aburi Not printed: Visit by Schiedt. He slept on the floor. Request for a wife, urgently repeated. Request for carpenter's tools. Plan sketch of the Aburi mission compound.
Halleur’s wife has become blind on one eye. Halleurs leave for Europe. At Quitta (Keta) the Anglos attacked the Governor, a punitive expedition is planned. The Hamburg Missionaries therefore prevented from going there. They now stay with Schiedt. Two…
Thanks for the promised bride miss Epplein. Experiences during sickness. School now deserted, because he paid the parents nothing. Chief fails to send his own children. Housebuilding helped by the discovery of real good clay.
Thompson wept on his way to Akropong ,when he passed in Aburi. It will be good if he is no longer in the bad company of the Europeans on the coast. His cook Peter asks for baptism. He is a slave of old Lutterodt.
Financial affairs. The committee is not ready to send out teachers. He saw himself forced to close the school at Labadi-at first temporarily, then definitively. He will have to do the same at Teshi (p 2). He has concluded a contract with Mr.…
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