Includes an application for £77 to cover extensive repairs needed by the Abetifi mission house - including the roof. There is trouble over the adultery fees regulation in the Abetifi community. In the 1894 Twi district conference it was agreed that…
Concerning progress in the school for evangelists. Martin Ako has had to be sent away from the school - he was poorly gifted, and also had the wrong attitudes; he was looking for a comfortable post (This was the ex-Congo pupil). The report goes…
He sends in the accounts of the slave home in the second half of 1897. Expenditure £40, which with the gifts left only £3 to be covered by the Mission.
Report an incident in which they were warned by some Kumasi chiefs that war would break out with the English forces if one of their number was punished - apparently for failing to get Kumasi fully 'cleaned' by a certain day. (The incident apparently…
Concerning the political situation in Asante – their Kumasi catechist had asked him to write to Accra that no more loads should be sent up - any day things could blow up. The children living with them in the houses, and in the slave home, are full of…
Reports that the war-danger has been significantly reduced - the chiefs are not united as they were two months ago, but the proposed leader has refused to undertake his role, and the notable village of Ofinso is refusing to participate.
The letter is printed in full in Sklavenheim 1898, pp2-7. It is a general account of the progress of the slave-colony to date. There is a Ramseyer letter in Le Missionaire 1898, pp55-57. It does say that they had been advising the Sklavenfreund…
Informs the Basel Committee that he has been able to buy a piece of land opposite the station on the other side of the Bantama Road - this was important because of the danger of being in close proximity with Fante liquor-bars. They received the…
Over the whole station area the increase in the Christian community in the year was 220. Nevertheless movement into the church is still a matter of individual decisions though among the great mass of the people many acknowledge the truth they are…
Reports a disappointing year in the Evangelists' School - three pupils leaving at the beginning of the second term. They have made a cocoa plantation and a corn plantation - he tried potatoes but the rain stopped too early, and they failed. Reviews…
In a long passage about the experiences of a young missionary Jost remarks how rewarding it is to be involved with youth in schools - for there one is helping to modify the way of life of the people. During the year the numbers of pupils increased…
The party about 50 strong - the date before Christmas 1897. An English officer from the interior had lodged with the Abetifihene the night before - the pupils sang to him en route through the town, and he in turn dashed Jost a few silver coins for…
Of the two roads from Kwahu to Asante-Akim the one through Obo, Akwasihu to Bompata is the better. - being much more travelled. To avoid going the same road both to and from Asante-Akim, however, the missionaries usually-travel into Asante Akim among…
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