A further discussion of the Adu case. One girl was the sister of Catechist Ntow, the other was a Begoro girl only one month baptised. Adu is now in his home town. Kukurantumi, and sadly not penitent - in fact Mohr is having to keep a special watch…
Writes as Praeses of the Mission in Akwapim/Akim. Reporting the 'fall' of Teacher Adu in Begoro. For several months he had apparently been involved in sexual relations with two Christian girls, neither of whom knew the other was involved - nor did…
Reports the purchase of land in Anyinam, and his plans for the building of a catechists' house. The latter are opposed by Buck, Eisenschmid, and Buhl partly on the grounds that no catechist is earmarked for Anyinam, and partly because Mohr has…
Concerning the out-station at Anyinam and the first baptisms there. A fairly big town, made bigger recently by the settlement of Juaben people around it. Judging by the head tax which Atta decided to raise last year, the number of inhabitants must…
Discussing the occurrence of the deaths at Begoro and Abetifi remembers how Inspector Josenhans had said in one of his lectures in the Missionhouse in Basel that each new station cost at least one life. Explaining the delay in presenting final…
He has been pioneering a new route down the mountain from Begoro to Dome. He used the Okra valley and the passabove it to cut down the climbing and make the gradients easier. A man can be carried all the way up his new path in a hammock - this was…
Accepts a Committee approval of expenditure for the building of the catechist's house in Fankyeneko and says he is sure the Christians of the town will work for the building of the house as soon as they see something is being done.
Mostly concerned with meditating on the complete lack of accidents during the building process at Begoro, especially during the period of the tree felling, when the trunks lay on the ground accross each other there were so many. These thoughts are…
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