Statistics for the year: The mission land at Kibi is given as 20 acres. The numbers in the Kibi community had increased from 35 to 42, there were now 20 communicants and 2 catechumens. 20 pupils in the boarding school, plus 2 day-boys. 9 girls are…
His report on the visit in Kibi contains the information that in Kibi there are 7 marriages between Christian men and heathen women, and in Kukurantumi 2. The elders of the Kibi community are Jacob Koagyeman (who is described as almost too old to…
Describing his January visit to Kibi. Flowers had been planted on Mrs Christaller’s grave, a low wall placed around it, a wooden cross erected, and an oil-palm planted. Christaller had found Culmann’s book on Christian ethics very interesting. Mader…
Exclusion of Jonathan Palmer for adultery - many charges of adultery were made against him in Akim after his return with Christaller to Akropong. Palmer admitted to 2 charges only.
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.…
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