Devoted to a report of his preaching journeys in the first three days of September. In the introduction he reports that Schmid has taken over the boarding school and he is now to devote himself to preaching journeys. He is thankful that he has the…
Since Dilger's leaving he has been especially busy with people coming to the station - some bring gifts of yams, rice, maize, pepper, groundnuts, onions, hens and eggs - others come with problems. The two most persistent of the latter are the request…
Offers as the main explanations for the non-return of the 7 boys after the Christmas holidays as people not understanding the worth of the school, and not wanting their sons to become Christians. He is especially sad about 2 of the non-returned –…
The pupils all returned on time at the end of the Christmas Holidays (except one who was ill in Bepong), and were early in the term joined by 3 further scholars. There was no diminution of numbers during the course of the year, so that the year…
On the preaching journeys which Tschopp have made with Dilger he had suffered from the heat and the thirst and his heal does not set itself under God's leading as a result. Since his arrival two brothers have died. On his arrival one of the main…
Gives the monthly expenditure for chop money as £1=8=0 (=35 Francs) - divided among 20 of the 25 boys in the Boarding School. Discussing the work in the school, Tschopp is most satisfied with the learning of biblical texts and hymns. Arithmetic has…
The bulk of this report is printed in Heidenbote 1888, pp76ff. Additional points: It is impossible to preach if there is a fetish ceremony at which the bulk of the people are present. Dente is a normal sight at the entrance to a Kwahu village. At…
The Kwahus make mattresses of the cotton wool from the silk-cotton tree. In Bepease they saw a Dente shrine - there was another notable shrine in the middle of the town, too, a rifle stock stuck into the ground. He summaries his preaching in Bepease…
Describing the clothing in which Christians attend street-preaching. One was barefoot, bare-headed wearing only a blue and white striped cloth from Selaga, another wore a length of European cloth and a European hat: another wore with his cloth a…
A report for the last quarter of 1885 and for the Boy’s Boarding School over the course of the whole year. His big fever followed on a preaching trip to Abene end Akankawaase. At Christmas the Abetifi church was filled with a congregation both of…
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…
9 sketch building plans of station buildings: mission house, girls' school and chapel. 1977-86. Piton. Bender? 3 sketch plans of the chapel at Sungtheu. 1894. Kutter. Formerly in A-1.28, 110+111. 1 plan showing the station area with planned…
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