He describes his first impressions of Kibi. He comments that so far as he could judge the Christians in Kibi have a more childlike attitude to the missionaries than those on the other stations he visited en route for Kibi.
He was absent from Kibi from 16th May to 24th June. In this context he offers some information on the custom for the dead Okyenhene. Human sacrifice took place at night, so that comparatively few cases came to their knowledge. The old law that it was…
Suggests that the girls who had been living under his wife's care and attention should be moved to Akropong, asking Basel’s permission and financial support for this move.
The report is printed in Heidenbote 1867 pp116ff. It is concerned with the almost simultaneous death and funeral of Eisenschmid's wife and King Ata. The report is a document arising from the distinctive situation of Basel missionaries in Ghana - she…
Includes an introductory comment about the significance of the shortage of European workers which is distinctly other than classical calvinism. He writes that if there were a great hunger and thirst for righteousness in Akim, blessings would no doubt…
Christaller and Eisenschmid apply to the Basel Committee for resources to support 25 boarding pupils in the school. One of the factors adduced to justify the additional expenditure is the fact that a fetish priest has recently appealed to the…
The mission staff includes now Brother Lodholz, and teacher Jonas Ako. The community in Kibi has incrased from 23 to 35, but the number of communicants only from 13 to 15. There are no catechumens. In the school are 19 boarders, 4 day boys and 4…
Discussion about the buying free of a servant girl of Chr. Asante in Kibi. He had acquired her because he could get no-one to serve him, and Missionary Mader had suggested that buying someone with the slave emancipation fund would be the best plan.…
Mentions the possible payment of the debt of 36 dollars by which the Kukurantumi Christian Paul Teaseye is pawned and the question sent to the Basel Committee for their answer since the money would have to be provided by them.
Continues with his review of the legal situation in Akim, and legal proceedings. His hope of a British Resident cannot be realised - the British have neither the interest nor the capacity time nor means to act in such a way. This, however, creates a…
Includes a sketchy description of his wife surrounded by the girls they have in the house sewing while she tells them stories perhaps from Europe, or they sing together. One important happening in the quarter was Ata’s serious illness - at one time…
Reporting on the Kibi school, Mader writes that their performance in Biblical History was good to very good. Most children could tell whole stories in a vivid way. In arithmetic Mader considered that Asante had got the Second Class (younger pupils)…
They have 5 servant-girls, who attend school in the mornings and learn needlework with Mrs Eisenschmid in the afternoons. The school in Kibi stands at 9 boarding boys, 6 boys who are servants of the missionaries, and 9 girls who are servants of the…
The missionaries had been called on to explain why they had excluded men for marrying heathen women when no Christian women were available. They cite paragraph 89 of the order of the community.
Continues with the history of the Asafo-Kukurantumi land case. On 12th October 1865 the Kibi Christians woke the missionaries before dawn to appeal to them to intervene, because there was going to be a battle between Kukurantumi on the one side, and…
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