In January 1894 the new school house was consecrated. In Haasis account of the movement of pupils in the school he reports that the Kwahu teacher, Preko, had recruited four relatives, the Abetifi chief two of his own children, a heathen man, who some…
Report of a journey to Nkoranza. It is printed almost completely in Heidenbote 1894, pp85ff. An expedition of Perregaux, Catechist Atiemo, 2 of Perregaux' servants, 4 hammock carriers, and 3 box carriers. On the journey to Atebubu they eat their own…
The withdrawals of the English force has created great commotion partly because the Asantehene is now making profit from the retreat (a case of liquor he sent the Kwahu king with an embassy was in fact returned), and also because of the depredations…
121 baptisms (90 adults +31 children) of heathen over the whole area, a new spirit in many communities, and 23 exclusions. European missionaries - Obrecht and Lehmann left for work in Akwapim, Martin returned to the station from his furlough in…
There is little desire for education in Buem and the scholars can only be kept in the school by love and coaxing. God is working by degrees in the hearts of the community - one confessed (in the preparation period for Holy Communion) that he had once…
Includes a report of an incident-in which he apologised to a man for failing to return a visit in the customary way - and a report of locusts in the Anum area not dated but almost certainly during the preceding quarter. He describes a visit to a sick…
The houses on the mission station in Jasikan were being built by the chief. There have been locust swarms in Buem. This year, too there are elephants in Buem - Clerk has recently seen a dance in honour of a hunter who had killed one.
Mentions the fact that besides the bible, his favourite book is Cullman's Ethics. There is also a description of the painted walls of the school in Toseng.
Of the two men resident on the station at Vakpo, often one and sometimes two are away on trading journeys, during which their wives stay off the station with their mothers. The Christians at Bamme he describes as being in their first love, although…
He stayed in Kete, not Krakye. He preached a formal sermons to the chiefs and people transmitting to them the whole salvation history from the creation to redemption in Jesus, and how the kingdom of God had come to Europe and from Europe to Accra and…
Concerning work in the Anum district proper. At the beginning of the report is a comment that the administration of the community is a very depressing activity, with so many oases of discipline to attend to. In reporting on the Anum community itself…
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