In the organisation of work on the return of the Ramseyers Schmid is made station Präses (Chairman). Ramseyer is assigned mainly to preaching journeys. In subscripts written by (inter al) Eisenschmid it appears that the idea ist that Ramseyer should…
The response in Tosen is sufficient to warrant the money being spent on buying land for a catechist’s house, and the building of a church/school where all the people attending services or the school lessons can be accommodated.
In Boso an old man has been converted - Asante remarks that this shows it is not just the young men who are responding to the message. In Tosen the fetish priest claimed he had received no blessing from serving his fetishes, and now wished to serve…
In Anum since the beginning of the year 7 families and 2 single persons have entered the catechumenate. They include the chief fetish priest of Anum, a man who had been a pupil in the Anum school and was then taken away by his brother. He said there…
Concerned with a preaching journey into Nkonya May-June 1887. The Tsate outstation is led by Ator, a man who had attended services for a long time Akwapim, Boso and Kpalime, before he became a catechumen, and who then in his zeal was able to…
Part 1 and Part 2 of the report are in the numbers 41 and 42. In Botoku the fetish in the house where they slept was a shrub, beneath which stood a bowl of water. One of the Müller’s companions asked someone living in the house why he did not cut it…
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