Dr. Grün offers Clerk well-paid and responsible employment at a post certainly above that of the ordinary interpreter, while the latter refuses the offer, says that he has no wish to leave the .employment of the Mission, though will always do what he…
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…
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.
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.
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…
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…
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…
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