His sermon is repeated in extenso in the manuscript. It is an extension of the text, exhorting he congregation the practical thankfulness in terms of greater financial independence, and less domination attitude to the Mission. Ata had gone to Pameng.…
The report is partly printed in Heidenbote 1885, pp92ff. Additional material: The introduction makes it clear that the report is a commentary on the petition from the Basel Mission concerning duties on spirits to the German Reichskanzler Bismarck. As…
Despite the date, the report is still being written in October. It seems to have been printed in full in Heidenbote 1886 pp43-46. One point omitted is a further episode from Boakye's biography. After the incident described in the printed text the…
Contains a list of boys from the top class of the Kibi school who were to be considered for entry to the Akim Middle Schol: Atta, Is. Anto, Nath. Amaning, Sam. Donko, Jos. Kwamin, Jer. Amoako, Jos. Frempon. Jos Bosompem was too little gifted to be…
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…
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…
Although there are pupils who need discipline and training, the teachers in the school take pains to make progress, and among the pupils there is a lively and alert attitude and the life of the school is orderly. Much of the report is concerned with…
21 students, 8, 6 and 7 in Classes I, II, & III respectively, A responsibility which has caused him many difficulties, that they have no proper buildings and so live in lower storey of the Mission House, which causes many problems. An examination…
The report is largely printed as an annex to the 1886 Annual Report pp84-94. Additional material: In Begoro they had built a new teacher's house in 1885, and were in the process of building for the Middle School. In Apapam there is a catechist's…
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Okanta in a written reply to the charges claimed to have bought only 12/- India rubber from three Christian women, and claimed that Date had done as much. He denied collecting rubber, and as for forbidding the community to tell stories to white men…
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