Proposing that Agogo be settled as a European station - the area is too distant from Abetifi to be supervised properly by the missionaries there. The Agogohene has already asked twice for a teacher. This is connected with a new appraisal of the…
He links his resignation with that of Inspector Schott. He did not wish to be connected with a mission which, supported on the whole by people in poor and middling circumstances, spent so much of its money supporting the local community and the local…
Links his resignation strongly with the Schott affair - they had laid considerable emphasis on I Cor 9vv1-14 in their dealings with local employees, and he is also very disillusioned with the exploitative attitude of the Christians to the…
On account of Christmas many Akim Christians were at the coast but he was able to meet the assembled community nevertheless. He was impressed by the spirit of the Kibi community - it did him good to feel it - and felt that there there was little…
Ramseyer feels Missionary Marquart would only be happy in a ‘marquartish’ Mission. He has ignored the real progress made in getting rid of the system of total support from outside. Both Ramseyer and Müller say that Marquart lacks the proper…
Expresses further disillusion with the work of the Mission, this time with the conduct of the European missionaries especially. Probity of financial administration seems to have been an issue about which there was much discussion. He maintains also…
Concerning the admininistration of the Kibi Middle School Baur and Marquart allege that the school was founded simply because the Akim pupils claimed the Akwapim teachers were "blased against them, and also that Akwapim fufu were too small.
One adult death during the year, quiet and faithful, and some deaths of children. Some exclusions, many of the congregation were forced to go away to find work. Several of the Kibi members were recruited as evangelists by the Mission. There had been…
6 young people excluded for adultery and drunkenness, 6 old women died, the congregation of the district at the end of the year numbering 144 with 6l communicants and 4 non-communicants, the rest being children. The most recent Kukurantumi baptism…
Personnel of the Anum Mission District: David Asante Teacher H. Amanin at Anum Teacher Chr. Asiedu at Boso Monitor R. Dapa at Boso Teacher J. Okanta at Palime. There seem to have been no journeys into Nkonya-Buem - at any rate Asante's main…
The new teacher for Boso was an Anum man who had gone through several classes of the Akropong Middle School. (This is R. Papa), The Palime congregation had come into being after about a year's preaching by the teacher from Bose and the Bose…
During the year the station was strengthened by the arrival of Missionary Tschopp and Missionary Sitzler. The year was bad from the health angle. Tschopp almost died of a fever, Mrs Dilger was badly ill with rheumatism, and towards the end of the…
The monthly payment received by boys in the higher classes was 2s (NB he gives an exchange rate of £4 to 100 Francs). Frequently he is badgered by relatives of the boys who want money from the mission because they are at school. He has even been…
In an illness which he suffered in July the Abetifi chief came to visit him. He is friendly disposed, and now and again visits the mission, but Tschopp considers that it would still be a large step before he could become a Christian. There is a fine…
Difficulties between the missionaries in Abettifi had at times been severe. Also missionary Dilger seems to have been extremely careless with records. Not only were the financial records in a mess, the only register of members kept at all up to date…
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