THE BASEL MISSION 
 
 ON THE 
 
 GOLD-COAST, WESTERN AFRICA 
 
 ON THE I st JANUARY 187!). 
 
 A RETROSPECT ON FIFTY YEARS OF 
 
 MISSION WORK. 
 
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 BASEL. 
 
 PRINTED AT FELIX SCHNEIDER. 
 
 1879. 
 
Verily, verily, I say unto you: Except a corn 
 of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth 
 alone; but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit. 
 
 John XII, 24. 
 
 We feel it our duty to appear with this Report before 
 our friends in consideration of the fact, that on the 18 th of 
 December 1878 we celebrated the fiftieth anniversary since the begin¬ 
 ning of our work on the Gold-Coast. 
 
 The first Missionaries sent there by our Society were : 
 J. Ph. Henke, C. F. Salbach, J. G. Schmid and G. Holzwarth. 
 The following passage is taken from the diary of one of 
 them : Wednesday, December 18 th 1828 in the morning we 
 got sight of Christiansborg. Fear and hope filled our hearts 
 in perceiving the place of our destination. We saw crowds 
 of Natives near the landing place, waiting for our arrival. 
 At about 9 o’clock we landed at Christiansborg and were 
 kindly received by a Danish officer, who brought us to the 
 fort, where Governor Lind gave us a cordial welcome and 
 promised to do all he could to assist us. He offered us lod¬ 
 gings in the fort, which we accepted etc.“ 
 
 And now looking back on half a century of patient toil 
 and remembering the cares and troubles, the hundredfold 
 obstacles of every description, the loss of valuable lives, and, 
 for nearly thirty years, the slow and humble progress of this 
 work, must we not exclaim that this corn of wheat too had 
 
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 to fall into the ground and die? And yet when the last twenty 
 years pass review before our spiritual eyes, and we observe 
 the joyous progress and flourishing present condition of this 
 Mission field, are we not also bound to acknowledge, how 
 gloriously the Lord fulfils His promise of making the corn 
 of wheat to bring forth much fruit? 
 
 It would exceed the limits of our Report to sketch the 
 history of this work; but we will try to give our readers 
 a brief summary of each of the five decades, relating the respec¬ 
 tive results of each. 
 
 The eastern part of the Gold Coast with the fort of 
 Christiansborg etc. was in possession of the Danish crown 
 till 1851, while the western part with the headquarters at 
 Cape Coast belonged to the English. In the 18 th century 
 Denmark was blessed with several pious kings, who took a 
 sincere interest in the spiritual welfare of their heathen sub¬ 
 jects in the colonies. In the reign of Christian VI the Mo¬ 
 ravian brethren began their successful Missionary entreprises 
 in different parts of the world. It was about 1736, that the 
 attention of count Zinzendorf was drawn towards the propa¬ 
 gation of the Gospel on the Gold Coast. Three times (1736, 
 1768 and 1769) brethren were sent to Christiansborg and 
 Ningo; but all died after a short stay, without seeing appa¬ 
 rent fruit of their work. They are buried, eleven in number, 
 at Christiansborg and Ningo. And yet those seeds of the 
 divine sower were not lost; for the dying brethren had at 
 least directed the eyes of those who waited for the kingdom 
 of God to the miserable and depraved condition of the tribes 
 of that Coast, and Zinzendorf already prophesied a better 
 future and a time of resurrection also of those dying seeds, 
 which for more than half a century had been sleeping in 
 barren ground. Between 1822—1825 the Danish settlements 
 
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 were governed by Major de Richelieu, a wellminded man 
 with regard to Christian truth, for he himself conducted the 
 Sunday services in the fort at Christiansborg in absence of 
 a Chaplain, and took care that the Mulatto children were 
 properly educated. On his return to Denmark, he pleaded 
 in an official petition to the King for a better attention to the 
 spiritual welfare of the Natives. 
 
 About the same time the Committee of the Basel Mission 
 were deliberating on the propriety of beginning a work of 
 their own in one of the benighted regions of the West Coast 
 of Africa, waiting for further direction of the divine head of 
 our work. Richelieu heard of these transactions and wrote 
 to Basel, offering in the name of his King fair conditions and 
 every assistance in case the Committee should choose their 
 field of labour on the Gold Coast. Our fathers entered into 
 negociations and every thing promised fair success. But lo, 
 the Committee had to experience the truth of the word: My 
 thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my 
 ways, saitli the Lord. Richelieu was accused of irregularities 
 in his administration by his successor and discharged from 
 his Governorship, and the young man whom our Committee 
 intended to send as Missionary proved unfit for his charge. 
 Nevertheless the Danish Government encouraged our fathers 
 to appoint other men, and at last four brethren were sent 
 out (March 1827), to commence the Mission work at Chris¬ 
 tiansborg. And now was accomplished what the Lord pleased, 
 for these brethren „went witli joy and were led forth with 
 peace“, and the foundation was laid of the work, which shall be 
 to the Lord for a name, for an everlasting sign, that shall 
 not be cut off. 
 
 The arrival of these brethren at Christiansborg on the 
 18 th of December 1828 was mentioned above. Great was the 
 
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 joy and hope of the friends of our Society at home, when 
 they heard of the beginning of the holy war on the Gold- 
 Coast. Bat again, as the heavens are higher than the earth, 
 so are God's ways higher than our ways. Scarcely had the 
 four brethren investigated the field of their labour and pro¬ 
 ved to be zealous men in their divine task, when one after 
 the other was called away to his eternal rest. Holzwarth 
 died on the 12 th Aug. 1829, and soon after, on the 29 th Aug. 
 1829, his two companions Schmid and Salbach fell asleep in 
 Jesus, both on the same day. Henke survived till 17 th Nov. 
 1831. Three new brethren arrived in March 1832, amongst 
 them a medical man, Dr. Heinze. But already six weeks 
 afterwards, on the 26 th April 1832, the fever proved stronger 
 than his skill. The next to follow him in death was his 
 friend Jager, who died 18 th July 1832. Thus only one, 
 A. Riis, was left, troubled on every side, yet not distressed; 
 perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; 
 cast down, but not destroyed; always bearing about in the 
 body the dying of the Lord Jesus. For truly he was alway 
 delivered unto death for Jesus’ sake. Twice he expected to 
 breathe his last. But the Lord had thoughts of peace and 
 not of evil over this work of His love to perform His good 
 word towards it, and Riis recovered. 
 
 After the death of his brethren he preached and worked 
 for some years among the Danish officers and Mulattos in 
 the capacity of a Chaplain and Teacher to the Mulatto chil¬ 
 dren. It was an arduous and thankless task, as Henke had 
 experienced it before him. But patiently he waited for the 
 direction of the Lord. In 1835 a Danish Chaplain took charge 
 of the corrupted generation on the coast. Meanwhile Riis’ 
 interest was more and more drawn towards the Interior and 
 especially to Akropong, the capital of Aquapim. He visited 
 
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 that place for the first time after a severe attack of fever, 
 and was astonished, how soon he recovered in the bracing 
 mountain air. Besides that he received a friendly welcome 
 from the mountain tribes, the Acjuapims and their king. Since 
 then he had the impression, that a successful Missionary 
 work for the benefit of the tribes in the Interior ought to 
 take its starting point from a place, where European vices 
 did not interfere with the propagation of the Gospel. The 
 Europeans to whom he communicated his intention, to live 
 for the future in the „bush u , laughed at such ideas; the na¬ 
 tives, on the contrary, invited Riis to come, and a friend, Mr. 
 Lutterodt, an old European coaster, encouraged him in his 
 plan. The reception which he found at Akropong induced 
 
 him to beg the Committee, not to weary in their efforts of 
 
 evangelizing the Negroes. His reports kindled a new fire of 
 love among the friends of the kingdom of Christ. Two breth¬ 
 ren were sent to his aid, J. Murdter und A. Stanger. They 
 arrived 1836 together with Miss M. A. Wolter, the future 
 partner of A. Riis and the first Missionary lady on the Gold- 
 Coast. Every body expected a new era of that Mission. But 
 on the 24 th Dec. 1837 Stanger was for ever removed from 
 his earthly scene of labour, and 4 months later, on the 4 th 
 Nov. 1838, Murdter followed him. Riis with his excellent 
 lady were left alone on the battle-field; 8 brethren had died. 
 
 To human estimation they had laboured in vain, they had 
 
 spent their strength for nougth and in vain; yet surely their 
 judgment is with the Lord and their work with their God. 
 Ten years had now elapsed since the first arrival of the four 
 brethren. No fruit of the work was as yet to be seen, and 
 our Committee openly declared in the Report pro 1838 : we 
 are bowed down at the hearing of all the sad news, we are 
 dismayed at the utter failure of our plans, we do not 
 
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 understand the thoughts of the Lord with this deeply afflicted 
 work. 
 
 Riis continued for some time his efforts at Akropong, 
 but his health gave way amidst all the hardships. Before 
 returning to Europe he visited Coomassie. The impressions 
 lie received there in the lion's den were not such as to 
 inspire him with hopes for an immediate beginning of Gos- 
 pelwork in Ashantee. In July 1840 he arrived at Basel. His 
 report to the Committee was to the effect, to wait for clearer 
 directions of the Lords will, though not at all disheartening. 
 The friends of our Society, on the contrary, were not in favour 
 of a new beginning after all the severe losses we had sus¬ 
 tained. The prevailing idea was to break off altogether, as 
 the Moravian mission had done 70 years before. 
 
 The Lord, however, had already chosen new ways; it 
 was not His will to leave this stronghold of satan in peace 
 of death. A new Inspector, the Rev. W. Hoffmann, an ener¬ 
 getic man, took up the legacy of his predecessor with un¬ 
 daunted courage, finding out new means to „get the field u . 
 Three years after the above mentioned sick leave of Riis we 
 find this faithful pioneer in Jamaica, assisted by J. G. Wid- 
 mann, to enlist Christian emigrants from among the free Negroes for 
 the holy tear in Africa. The plan of Imp . Hoffmann was, to begin 
 our African Mission work anew by establishing a settlement with 
 Christian Colonists from the West-Indies at Akropong. 24 members 
 of the Moravian Congregation were ready to go, and arrived 
 on the 17 th April 1843 at Christiansborg. Not all of these 
 Westindian brethren proved to be shining lights among those 
 who were in darkness. Yet Akropong became henceforth a 
 city on a hill, the light of which could not be hid. 
 
 At Christiansborg a School was opened for the Mulattoes, 
 which soon became crowded with pupils. From 1845 a 
 
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 European Missionary was stationed there (Schied), and regular 
 preaching commenced. 
 
 The young work suffered a great loss in 1845 through 
 the utter breaking down of A. Riis’ health and his return 
 to Europe. But new brethren arrived (Sebald, Schied, H. 
 N. Riis, J. C. Dieterle, J. Stanger, Fr. Meischel und J. 
 Mohr). 1847 a new Station was established at Aburi (by 
 Meischel). 
 
 The annual Report of 1848 relates that at last the wilder¬ 
 ness and the solitary places are beginning to rejoice and the 
 first blossoms are to be seen. About 40 native Christians 
 besides the 20 Westindian brethren were gathered in Christ’s 
 fold, both at Akropong and at Christiansborg, and at least 
 300 children received regular instruction. Between 1838—48 
 only one Missionary died (Sebald f 7 th Dec. 1845). May we 
 not ascribe this change to the earnest prayer of the new born 
 children at Christiansborg who assembled for the special pur¬ 
 pose of interceding for the lives of their ministers? (Report 
 of Schied 1848). 
 
 We proceed to the year 1858 , and are astonished to hear, 
 that no less than 18 Missionaries, 9 married and 3 unmarried 
 ladies, altogether 30 Europeans, besides 26 Catechists and 
 Teachers are stationed not only at the old places, but also 
 at Gyadam, founded 1853, at Abokobi, founded 1854 in con¬ 
 sequence of the bombardment of Christiansborg, at Odumase, 
 founded 1856. Aburi, given up for 6 years after the sick 
 leave of Rev. Meischel, was reopened 1857 by our present 
 Senior Rev. Dieterle. 
 
 The work had grown up to manhood, and manly were 
 the endeavours to gain the victory. Our Schools received a 
 suitable development, so as to resemble well organised Chris¬ 
 tian Schools at home. Plantations were cleared and laid out 
 
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 with thousands of coffeetrees, roads cut through the bush, 
 better dwellings built and so forth. 
 
 But not only the outward appearance changed, the prea¬ 
 ching of the Gospel brought a joyful harvest too. The number of 
 regular Church members was at the end of 1858: three 
 hundred and eighty-five, besides ninety Canditates for bap¬ 
 tism. In every way the prospects were favourable for an 
 increased onset; for the heathenish powers were beginning to 
 give ground. 
 
 Ten years later ( 1868 ) the tabular view showed the 
 following numbers: 31 Missionaries, 19 Ladies, 25 Catechists, 
 15 Schoolmasters and 12 Female Teachers, altogether 52 
 Native assistants, 1581 regular Church Members (four times 
 more than ten years ago). The year 1868 alone brought an 
 increase of 372 souls. 
 
 The Mission Trade Society had begun their operations to 
 prepare the way for the Lord by trade, based on Christian 
 principles. Two Stations on the banks of the river Volta were 
 newly established by that Society, at Addah and 60 miles to 
 the interior at Anum, in the midst of an abundant cotton 
 district. Of course not only the merchants offered their goods, 
 but also Native and European Ministers offered without money 
 and without price to children and adults the imperishable 
 
 goods from above. In one place we had to retreat; Gyadam 
 
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 was in 1861 burnt down and abandoned, but only to make 
 place for a new Station at Kyebi in the Akim district. A great 
 number of Outstations sprung up surrounding the central 
 places in every district. 
 
 During this period Elders were appointed in our Con¬ 
 gregations to assist the Missionaries in their work and to 
 settle minor cases of juridiction, which institution proves still 
 to be a blessing in our whole organisation. Church regulations , 
 
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 adapted to the wants of our Christian Natives, became the 
 standard of life in our Communities. Polygamy and domestic 
 slavery, two evils closely connected, were subdued with all 
 energy. 
 
 Our Schools , the most flourishing part of our African 
 Mission, received every attention, because we must have a 
 staff of well educated Native assistants, before we reach our 
 aim, the future independence of a Native Church. Boarding 
 Schools were therefore opened in all our Districts for boys 
 and girls, besides the Day Schools at each Station and Out- 
 station. Our readers remember that, for a good while, a 
 great number of the children under instruction were either 
 orphans or belonged to heathenish families. In many cases 
 also either the father or the mother were yet unconverted. 
 It is clear that with children living with their ungodly rela¬ 
 tions the good influence of the school is apt to be weakened 
 by the venomous influence of paganism. This is less the 
 case with our Boarding Scholars, who live entirely with the 
 Missionaries under strict discipline. It was no easy task to 
 induce parents to give their children, especially their daugh¬ 
 ters, to the Missionaries for education. However all preju¬ 
 dices gradually disappeared by the enlightening influence of 
 the Gospel. The greatest difficulty in establishing a Girls 
 Boarding School was and is to some degree still experienced in 
 the Krobo district, where every girl has to submit to a 
 certain filthy heathenish custom, or become an outcast. „May 
 the Lord destroy all the bulwarks of satan and pour out His 
 Spirit upon daughters and handmaids among the Kroboes! a 
 exclaims the Report for 1865. And the same is our fervent 
 prayer still. 
 
 The boys and girls of the Boarding Schools are also in¬ 
 structed in handiwork, the girls especially in sewing etc. 
 
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 We do not expect that all these children will be converted; 
 our European experience and Holy Scripture would contra¬ 
 dict such expectations. But one thing we know: the Holy 
 Spirit is working in the hearts of many of them, and they 
 all learn at least so much under our roofs as is necessary 
 to become useful members of society in their afterlife, and to 
 regard African superstition as sin and folly. 
 
 From among the boys of our Day- and Boarding Schools 
 we annually select the more intelligent and allow them to 
 enter what we call our v Middle-Schools u in Akropong and 
 Christiansborg. An active boy trained in this school has no 
 difficulty in obtaining an apprenticeship in a mercantile busi¬ 
 ness or in a Government office. Others may become farmers 
 or learn a trade in one of our industrial shops (see below). 
 But these, as remarked before, are not our only objects with 
 the Middle-Schools. Young men who have passed three classes 
 of the Middle-School and wish to become Teachers or Cate¬ 
 chists, receive in the fourth class preparatory instruction 
 which enables them to enter special Seminaries. Those who 
 wish to become Teachers stay two years in a Teachers Trai¬ 
 ning School , connected with the Boarding-Schools, to afford 
 them opportunities for practical exercise in teaching; those 
 who wish to become Catechists, and eventually Pastors, enter 
 a Theological Seminary . We do not like to use big words, 
 otherwise we might term the latter School our „Gold-Coast 
 High-Sehool“. But the object we aim at is: to educate Na¬ 
 tive Ministers, able to take care of the Congregations, to feed 
 their flock with knowledge and understanding (Jer. Ill, 15), 
 and to promote that wisdom, that is from above and is pure, 
 peaceable, gentle and easy to be treaded, full of mercy and 
 good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy (James 
 III 17). We long for the fulfilment of that aim, but are thankful 
 
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 for the first fruits reaped already from the tree of our School 
 Work. ,,Speramus meliora u , we hope for better, is the motto 
 of the African Steam Ship Company. It expresses our expec¬ 
 tations also in this sphere of labour. 
 
 An other department in our work received its develop¬ 
 ment between 1858—1868. Our friends are aware, that our 
 Missionary work is not limited to preaching and teaching 
 alone. We think it not only right, but our bounden duty, 
 to make our Christians from the Gentiles partakers of the 
 social blessings, which we abundantly derive from Christia¬ 
 nity. For this purpose Industrial Establishments were opened at 
 Christiansborg for joiners, wheel-weights, lock-smiths, black¬ 
 smiths, shoemakers and book-binders. Our industrial brethren 
 had to overcome many difficulties with their work-shops. We 
 are therefore thankful to state that, in this branch too, we 
 have not laboured in vain. After many trials the different 
 establishments became selfsupporting, and all these different 
 trades tended to promote Christian diligence, honesty and 
 sobriety. These work shops have not only enabled the Euro¬ 
 peans to build more salubrious and comfortable dwellings 
 than those they first inhabited, but the natives too, following 
 our example, have improved upon their former style of do¬ 
 mestic architecture. All the social changes, which this branch 
 of our work brought to the Gold-Coast, are uniformally appre¬ 
 ciated and speak for themselves to every one who has eyes 
 to see and sense enough to observe past and present. 
 
 We have not yet mentioned the difficulties which the 
 confusion of tongues creates in this party of the world and not 
 in a small degree in our districts. In travelling from Chris¬ 
 tiansborg to Odumase, we pass villages with 5 different lan¬ 
 guages: Ga or Akra, Tshi, Kyerepong, Ewe and Adangme. 
 Which of these shall be adopted as the common medium of 
 
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 intercourse in church and school? Or shall we choose the 
 easy and slothful way of preaching in English or in German 
 and leave it to the Natives to understand what we mean to 
 say? Nay! that would be against all commonsense! We dee¬ 
 med it therefore our duty to cultivate two of the chief ver¬ 
 nacular tongues, the Ga or Akra and the Tshi, to become 
 written languages. We succeeded so far as to have now a 
 great number of useful Schoolbooks of every description and, 
 above all, the translation of the whole Bible in both. The 
 late Rev. J. Zimmermann finished the Gci translation in the 
 Jubilee-year of our Society 1865, and Rev. Christaller issued 
 his excellent Tshi Old and New Testament a few years later. The 
 latter language is spoken by at least one million of Negroes 
 on the Gold-Coast, far to the interior. We are greatly in¬ 
 debted to the British and Foreign Bible Society, who have 
 generously paid the expenses of printing these translations. 
 
 We have tried to mention in these lines the spiritual 
 agencies which animated, the body of our African Mission 
 since the period 1858/68. It was only by degrees that, 
 during the last ten years (1868/78), the vital elements of our 
 different institutions came into full operation. Many of our 
 younger Missionaries are now reaping what others have sown 
 with fear and trembling amidst great difficulties and hin¬ 
 drances. But new difficulties are sure to arise, for we wrestle 
 against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spi¬ 
 ritual wickedness in high places. May our present generation 
 both of European agents and Native assistants never weary 
 in this battle of light against darkness, us little as our old 
 brethren did amidst greater difficulties. We must be thank¬ 
 ful to the Lord for what He has given us. We earnestly 
 hope and trust that He will bless and keep us in the future 
 as He has done in the past. 
 
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 And now the outward features, by which our progress 
 during the last ten years was characterized ought to be in¬ 
 dicated. In 1868 we were able to say that we had filled the 
 regions of the Eastern district on this side of the Ashantee 
 border with the Gospel. Congregations had been gathered, 
 Schools established, Native assistants educated, the Bible 
 translated into two languages, other books for schools and 
 church published in the Native tongues, work-shops opened, 
 agriculture promoted. But the kingdom of Ashantee remained 
 shut to the messengers of peace. 
 
 Rev. A. Riis had in 1840 wished to proceed there, but 
 he perceived that the time had not yet come and advised 
 the Committee to wait for clearer directions from above. These 
 came 30 years later. The Ashantees pillaged our Station Anum 
 and carried our brethren Ramseyer and Kuhne as captives to 
 Coomassie. Even during their captivity (from 12 th June 1869 
 to 23 d January 1874) they were allowed to preach the Gospel, 
 and from their prison they wrote that the end of their trials 
 must be a permanent Mission in Ashantee. Liberated by God's 
 strong hand the captives returned to Europe. They pleaded 
 the cause of Ashantee. The Church Missionary Society and 
 friends on the Continent encouraged our Committee to com¬ 
 mence this Mission. Our appeal for special funds was answered 
 by British Christians with the subscription of £ 3175. Con¬ 
 tinental and American friends gave us £ 3415, and we were 
 thus in Dec. 1875 enabled to send out for Ashantee Mission a 
 staff of six men for two new Stations, Mr. and Mrs. Ram¬ 
 seyer among them. 
 
 One of these Stations, Begoro , is not in the Ashantee ter¬ 
 ritory, but a frontier town and a connecting link between 
 our former Gold-Coast Mission and Ashantee proper. The 
 other Station Abetifi is the capital of Okwao, a former province 
 
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 of Ashantee, which gained its independence after the victory 
 of the British army over the Ashantees. It may he asked 
 why we did not proceed to Coomassie at once? The social 
 and political conditions of Ashantee were, and are still, so 
 unsettled, that in 1874 we clearly saw that Coomassie would 
 offer very little guaranty for a Missionary Station. The 
 means of our Society did not allow the risk of throwing 
 away money for doubtful entreprises in Ashantee itself. There¬ 
 fore our eyes were directed to the Eastern Ashantee province 
 Okwao, where we were received with friendly readiness for 
 our intentions. The chief of the capital Abetifi told the Mis¬ 
 sionaries to settle wherever they liked. During the dry season 
 from Nov. 1875 to May 1876 the work could be commenced 
 by building the Missionary premises at Abetili and the after 
 events proved, that the right way had been chosen. 
 
 The Ashantee Expedition has by the Lord’s guidance brought 
 to our Mission several happy results besides the liberation of 
 our captive Missionaries without any ransom («£ 6480 had 
 been asked by their jailers), and the beginning of a new 
 Mission to Ashantee. The attention of the public was drawn 
 to our humble and quiet endeavours in many news paper 
 articles during and after the war. Sir John Glover Capt. 
 R. N. made very favourable mention of our Mission, and the 
 English Government expressed to the Swiss Government their 
 thanks for the effectual help that had been rendered to the 
 expedition against Coomassie through the Basel Mission, a 
 number of Negro Christians following the division of Sir John 
 Glover as soldiers, the Catechists accompanying them as 
 Pastors, and the different artisans in our Congregations and 
 Industrial Establishments rendering all kind of service to the 
 army. 
 
 This war was likewise followed by a social reform of 
 
the greatest importance to the whole Coast, for soon after 
 the establishment of the Gold-Coast Colony, Governor Sir G. 
 C. Strahan by ordre of the Queen abolished domestic slavery , 
 which had been a continual drawback in every Mission entre- 
 prise. We had anticipated this step in our Church Regula¬ 
 tions years ago and were glad to see our efforts now openly 
 and officially supported. 
 
 Governor Strahan and his suite afterwards inspected our 
 Stations and was greatly pleased by what he heard and saw. 
 The consequence of this visit was an encouragement in our 
 schoolwork in the shape of a Government grant of £ 100 a 
 year and the construction as well as repair of roads to the 
 interior. A regular letter post between Christiansborg and 
 Odumase facilitated the intercourse between the interior and 
 the coast. For all these improvements we are very thank¬ 
 ful and we gladly awail ourselves of this opportunity to 
 render our thanks to the Government and their representa¬ 
 tives for so many valuable improvements since a few years 
 in the social and political condition of Europeans and Natives. 
 This granted we on the other hand deplore that these great 
 blessings have been accompanied by some great disadvan¬ 
 tages. We might mention for instance that the prices of 
 labour, of food and every thing have suddenly risen veiy 
 considerably, and especially the salaries which Government 
 offers to educated Natives are very much higher than our 
 means allow us to pay. This change gives rise to some dis¬ 
 content among our native assistants. May that truly spiri¬ 
 tual mind, which finds its expression in the words of the 
 apostle I Tim. VI, 6.: „Godliness with contentment is great 
 gain, and having food and raiment let us be therewith con¬ 
 tent‘d more and more inspire our brethren. 
 
 As a decided progress and a step in the right direction 
 
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 towards building- up a Native Church we will not forget to 
 mention the circumstance, that several of our faithful Cate¬ 
 chists received ordination as Pastors of Congregations between 
 1868/78. It was a day of joy and gladness when our dear 
 Brethren, the Rev. A. W. Clerk, Ch. Reindorf and Th. Opoku 
 received this token of confidence and appreciation of faithful 
 services by our Committee. The Rev. A. W. Clerk is one 
 of those Emigrants from Jamaika, who followed A. Riis to 
 the Gold-Coast. Few years later also Mess rs Koranteng, Nath. 
 Date, Jer. Engman and Ch. Quist were ordained and received 
 their respective spheres of labours in different places. May they 
 have grace to abide in the Lord and bring forth much fruit. 
 
 One branch of our African Mission wants still more deve¬ 
 lopment. We mean the itinerary work of preaching to the 
 Heathen by special Evangelists like our Paul Mohenu at Abo- 
 kobi. It is true this man is particularly fitted for that post 
 as a former fetish priest and an eloquent messenger of the 
 good tidings and of that peace which he himself enjoys through 
 faith. Of late a second man for itinerary preaching has been 
 stationed al Akropong for the Aquapim district: the Catechist 
 Peter Hall. But we want still more of such Evangelists. 
 May God grant them to us! 
 
 Our Committee has of late frequently urged the neces¬ 
 sity of introducing the selfsupporting system in our congregations. 
 It is clear that the more our work grows and new Stations 
 are established the more also the expenditure increases. It is 
 evident too that they which preach the Gospel should also 
 live of the Gospel 1 Cor. IX, 14. The practical meaning of 
 this word is, no doubt, that our Christians, who no more 
 spend their substance for the devil as in former times, are 
 called upon to lay aside of their income for the necessary 
 exigencies of their spiritual wants and for the poor. Church 
 
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 and School funds as well as Poor funds are therefore opened, and 
 every one of our Church members is expected to ,,lay by 
 him in store as God hath prospered him u , to abound also in 
 the grace of liberal contributions towards these funds. Free 
 donations are expected and a regular Church fee is levied 
 every year in our Congregations for the purpose to meet more 
 and more all necessary wants with regard to the building or 
 repair of Chapels, Schoolhouses, dwellings of Pastors, Tea¬ 
 chers etc. It is hoped that these funds will increase so far 
 as to pay in future also the salaries of those who work for the 
 Gospel. The beginning is made, may the Lord continue to 
 prosper this importaut institution. 
 
 One word more in sad remembrance of those of our brethren 
 who died on the field of honour for Jesus’ sake. The following 
 list (see Appendix II.) recalls their names to our memory. 
 Many of them fell asleep in Jesus of late years. We lament 
 their early departure, but bless the Lord also for all the spi¬ 
 ritual gifts He has bestowed upon His Gold-Coast Church 
 through them. Br. J. Zimmermanu died at home; never¬ 
 theless we give his name in one list with our venerable late 
 Senior Br. J. G. Widmann and others; for his last thought 
 rested with his cherished Africa. Their death-beds and their 
 quiet resting places preach to us these words: Remember 
 them, who have spoken unto you the word of God: whose 
 faith follow considering the end of their conversation Hebr. 
 XIII, 7. While we linger with reverent affection over the 
 graves of our honoured dead who have recently been gathered 
 to their fathers, we can only exclaim: „The Lord gave and 
 the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord. 
 They rest from their labours and their works do follow them. u 
 
 And now we invite our readers to go with us round our 
 Stations and see the present condition of each. We begin with 
 
 
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 Chris tiansb or g. 
 
 The population in our seatowns is corrupted by Euro¬ 
 pean influence, and therefore the inhabitants of those towns 
 have more difficulty in realising the true nature of Chris¬ 
 tianising seeing so many Europeans, whose life is a disgrace 
 to their Christian name. Add to this the migratory habits of 
 the Akra people, especially of our young artisans, who after 
 their apprenticeship leave our Congregations and their home 
 for years, to live abroad, and return in many cases, alas! 
 with ruined bodies and seared consciences, and we under¬ 
 stand the difficulty of successful Missionary labour at Chris- 
 tiansborg. Notwithstanding such evils we do not despair, 
 but exercise more firmly a scriptural discipline in our Con¬ 
 gregation, to keep up the sound Gospel-standard for our com¬ 
 pass, as we are sure that the Lord's blessing can only then 
 follow us, when we stand to the truth. 
 
 An other drawback in Christiansborg is the scattered 
 abode of our Christians among the heathen population. We 
 form no community. In consequence the supervision is very 
 difficult for the superintending Missionary, and the mutual 
 control of our Church members Gal. VI, 1. 2, 1 Thess. V, 
 14. 15., Matth. XVIII, 15. 16. meets with more obstacles and 
 is less efficient than in our other Congregations. Every body 
 who knows the blandishments of sin, must fear for our young 
 men who live on swampy ground in these seatowns, where 
 the trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord Jes. 61,3 
 have great difficulty to grow. 
 
 Praise be to the Lord: amid all these hindrances He has 
 gathered His elect, who have washed their robes and made 
 them white in the blood of the Lamb (Rev. VII, 14). Class 
 
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 meetings proved to be a blessing for our Christiansborg Con¬ 
 gregation. 
 
 The Sunday services might be better attended. Regular 
 preaching in English and in Akra offers an opportunity to 
 Government officers and soldiers as well as to our own 
 members to learn the way of righteousness. We are glad to 
 state the amiable intercourse, which some of our brethren 
 have had with several Government officials. Above we spoke 
 ef the corrupting influence of Europeans. It is clear that there 
 are always exceptions to a rule, and such noble exceptions 
 are fortunately not quite uncommon on the Gold-Coast. We 
 hope and trust, that the ensnaring evils of Coast life, too well 
 known to be mentioned here nominally, might be checked 
 to some extent by our readiness to offer Christian intercourse 
 to all of our European friends who have a wish for it. 
 
 Christiansborg and Akra are the headquarters of our 
 work-shops and of our mercantile establishments. Mr. Chr. 
 J. Buhl, the chief Treasurer of our Society, has under his care 
 the Book and Tract depository, of which we give the cata¬ 
 logue below. The Boys’ Boarding and the MiddlerSchool for 
 the Akra and Adangme district are also established there. 
 
 La, a considerable village and fishing place, is one of 
 the Outstations of Christiansborg. The Christian Community 
 there at Emaus is now enjoying peace after many a turbu¬ 
 lent affront of the heathen powers of darkness. The number 
 of Christians has been increasing from year to year in spite 
 of Lakpa, the hideous national fetish of the Akra idol-wor¬ 
 shippers. 
 
 Teshy, the next village east of La, is an Outstation of long 
 standing and had a promising beginning and a time of revi¬ 
 val 30 years ago. If La has in some respects resemblance 
 with Smyrna Rev. II, 8 follg., then the: ,,Remember from 
 
whence thou art fallen and repent and do the first works,, 
 because thou hast left the first love u Rev. II. 4. 5, may be 
 applied to Teshy. 
 
 Two smaller places, Legong and Kwantanang are likewise 
 under the superintendence of the minister of Christiansborg. 
 The number of all the full and accredited members of this, 
 central place amounts to 575. 
 
 Our second Station 
 
 Abokobi 
 
 at the foot of the Aquapim hills with the Girls’ Boarding School 
 for the Akra district and with a great number of Outstations 
 and Preaching places presents in many respects better fea¬ 
 tures. This place was established in 1854, and has now a 
 Congregation of 272 members. There is much spiritual life in 
 this community, exhibited by discipline and following after 
 holiness. The Presbyters or Church Elders of Abokobi are 
 known and acknowledged for their impartial decisions. The 
 Church discipline is strictly exercised if necessary and it is. 
 known even amongst the heathen round that station, that for 
 those who intend to walk unorderly, there is no place in our 
 congregations. Some heathen say it openly, that this is the 
 reason why they will not join us. 
 
 Mayera, a pleasant little town in the Akra bush, the 
 abode of planters, became a blessed scene of labour to our 
 worthy Deacon, the Rev. Ch. Reindorf, who by the devoted¬ 
 ness to his work as Pastor of Mayera and the efficiency of 
 his preaching to the heathen brought many a soul to the 
 saving knowledge of our divine shepherd. It must be acknow¬ 
 ledged here with due thanks that not only he, but also our 
 other Deacons and many of our Catechists, not content to fulfil 
 their duties in their Congregations, consider themselves deb- 
 
tors both to the Greeks and to the Barbarians, both to the 
 wise and to the unwise, trying to win souls for the Lord 
 whenever an opportunity offers. Therefore they spend as 
 much time as their duties to their Congregations will allow 
 of, in visiting the villages and houses of heathen. The result 
 of these endeavours was by the blessing of our divine Head 
 the conversion of a notable fetish-worshipper at Agbowodo, 
 whose baptism brought many a heathen to meditating upon 
 the deceitful practices of the fetishpriests and the only way 
 of salvation and peace in Christ. 
 
 The dedication of the new chapel at Mayera (17. Nov. 
 1878), chiefly built by the Christians themselves, was a day 
 of great rejoicing; 24 catechumens were baptized by Rev. 
 Ch. Reindorf, and in the afternoon a vast crowd of visitors 
 joined in a missionary meeting, which took place under the 
 shady trees adjoining the chapel, which would have been too 
 small to hold the multitude. 
 
 Sasabi, east of Abokobi, is, on the contrary, the barren 
 ground still which it has been for many a year. 
 
 Bawaleshi presents decidedly better features. A pretty 
 member of zealous young men make a good impression on 
 the visiting Missionary. They felt it their duty to build a 
 better house for their Catechist, instead of the wretched hovel 
 he had inhabited before. Mr. Obobi, an old Catechist of 
 ours, is the soul of our work there. 
 
 The work at Oyarefa greatly resembles that at Bawaleshi, 
 the chief difficulty being the want of Christian girls to become 
 wives of our young Christian men. We cannot mention all 
 the preaching places of Abokobi; but we know, that by exten¬ 
 sive sowing of the good seed among the heathen many souls 
 have been brought to peace and rest in Christ. The total 
 number of Members in this Circuit is 588. 
 
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 Clirisliansborg and Abokobi are our two principal Stations 
 among the Akra speaking population, Odumase und Ada for the 
 Adangme district. 
 
 Odumase, 
 
 the capital of Krobo, which is the pearl in the crown of the 
 Gold-Coast Colony for its fertility, was selected as a Mission 
 Station in 1859. Great and manifold were the hindrances 
 which the Gospel met there after a very promising beginning 
 and much readiness on the part of the King Odonko-Azu and 
 his"subjects to hear the word of God. It seemed for a time 
 as if the whole tribe might be gained for the Lord by a 
 general vote of King and Elders. It was a mistake. The 
 fear of fetish-priests and several customs peculiar to that tribe, 
 closely connected with fetishism (the institution of tshemeli 
 and the Otufo costume) were the bulwarks of satan, which 
 he opposed to the weapons of light. The love of sin was his 
 faithful standard bearer. For years we had to fight against 
 these powers of darkness with apparently little success; only 
 of late a breach was opened in this stronghold. We hope 
 and trust that the worst is over. The number of Christians 
 has during the last years been steadily increasing, and the 
 Christians begin to separate from the heathen, gathering in 
 Christian villages apart from their fellow citizens both at 
 Odumase and at Srd, the Outstation 4 miles to S. W. 
 
 It has sometimes been said, that the amount of offerings 
 which a man gives towards his heavenly Master's cause is 
 a very good barometer of his spiritual condition. Although 
 we do not agree with this statement in this naked form, yet 
 there is some truth in it, and for a number of years it has 
 been our endeavour to accustom our Native Christians to 
 contribute towards the Lord’s cause according to their ability. 
 
We are glad to see that our endeavours have not been in 
 vain in all our Congregations, and that our members have 
 begun to see the truth of the word : „It is more blessed to 
 give than to receive.“ In illustration of this we have already 
 mentioned : the chapel building at May era, the Catechist’s 
 dwelling atBawaleshi; we shall hear of the exertions of our 
 Ada brethren for the construction of their church and school- 
 house. We have not room enough to enumerate all similar 
 praiseworthy deeds of faith and love in other Stations, but 
 should consider it unfair, not to dwell with one word of 
 appreciation upon the liberality of our Odumase Christians, 
 which they showed in the repair of their chapel, of our Sra 
 members in building a schoolhouse, and of both in their 
 contribution towards the different funds. Also of Kpong we 
 hear that a meeting place is in construction. Kpong has 
 become a regular preaching place, because many of our Ada 
 Christians live there as traders. 
 
 At Abuse our mercantile brethren have a considerable 
 establishment. The Missionary work has, since a few months, 
 been committed to the care of our esteemed Deacon Rev. 
 Ch. Quist. 
 
 Leaving our work in Krobo with the 263 Members and 
 the Girls’ Boarding-school, we make use of the new steam¬ 
 boat, the , 7 Pioneer“, belonging to the Mission Trade Society, 
 to proceed on the Volta to 
 
 Ada, 
 
 a town of about 7000 inhabitants near the mouth of that river, 
 the chief emporium of the whole Volta-trade. This place, or 
 rather Adafo was in 1864 first occupied by our Trading board, 
 and only in 1867 our Committee stationed a Missionary there. 
 
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 Atlafo is the loading port for Ada town, a small village on 
 the spit formed by the Volta Lagoon on one side and the 
 Atlantic on the other, about four miles distant from the town. 
 An extensive factory was built in 1869. Regular divine ser¬ 
 vices were held in a small room near the trading premises. 
 The Congregation increased quickly, as our Christians them¬ 
 selves became the active leaven amongst their pagan friends 
 and families. In 1870 it was found necessary to provide our 
 membres who lived at Ada town with a Catechist, a few 
 years later with a Deacon, the Rev. J. Engman, now at 
 Christiansborg. The last returns of the Ada circuit together 
 with the Outstations at Tamatoku, Sukpe and Tejle are 156 
 communicants, 73 children, — no doubt a gratifying number 
 after eleven years of labour. 
 
 We have pleasure in rendering due thanks to our Ada 
 Church elders for their zeal and cheerfulness in providing 
 the necessary materials and means for a beautiful church, 
 altogether a work of their own. The 25 th Aug. 1878 was 
 appointed for the dedication of this church after incessant 
 working of all the Christians to finish this house of God. 
 A great number of visitors from far and near, waiting for 
 the peals of the newly bought church bells, crowded the 
 streets of the town, which had been swept by special order 
 of the Commandant. At 9 l / 2 a. m. the Christians assembled 
 in the new schoolhouse to give thanks to the Lord for all 
 His mercies, and to supplicate His presence for this day, and 
 then in a procession moved to the new chapel, three Presby¬ 
 ters carrying in their hands the Holy Vessels. The key was 
 delivered to the minister by the architect, one of the eiders, 
 with a few appropriate words, and soon the spacious hall 
 was densely crowded with eager listeners, many standing 
 outside near the doors and windows. 19 Catechumens from 
 
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 nearly all the Outstations of Ada declared their faith in Christ 
 and were baptized. In the afternoon 6 Europeans and 7 
 Natives addressed stirring words of praise and exhortation 
 in different tongues and ways. „This is the day which the 
 Lord hath made, we will rejoice and be glad in it u , these 
 words express the tenor of sentiments of all present. Such 
 an event is always an epoch in the life of a young Congre¬ 
 gation. Formerly they sought in dark fetish houses for a 
 place to hear God speak to them, but could not find it. Now 
 they can say: „The sparrow has found a house and the swal¬ 
 low a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, even 
 Thine altars, 0 Lord of hosts, my king and my God. Blessed 
 are they that dwell in Thy house: they will be still praising 
 Thee. u The collection raised after the morning and evening 
 services amounted to £. 28. 9 —, the friendly magistrate of 
 Ada contributing both in words and deeds not in a scanty 
 manner to celebrate the day. Such days must give us the 
 impression that something has already been achieved in our 
 work, which is an earnest of greater blessings for the future. 
 
 The superintending Missionary has occupied since March 
 1878 the newly built mission house at Ada town. The super¬ 
 vision of the Ada circuit is thereby greatly facilitated. We 
 hope and trust, that our Committee may be enabled to send 
 either a second Missionary to Ada or a Deacon to our mer¬ 
 cantile Station at Adafo to meet all demands of our work at 
 these important places. The Ada Christians are mostly tra¬ 
 ders, and their connections in business extend to all the tra¬ 
 ding places of the Volta, and reach already the great staple 
 town Salaga, where caravans from the interior exchange the 
 produce of Sudan for the goods of the European market. Our 
 Christians therefore, preaching the love of God in words and 
 conversation at those remote places, must become our fore- 
 
runners to the heart of Middle-Africa, preparing the way of 
 the Lord, making straight in the desert a highway for our 
 God. We wish them Gcd-speed in their endeavours. 
 
 Our work in the Aquapim District, where the Tshi lan¬ 
 guage is spoken, comprises nearly all the towns and villages 
 of the mountainous part of the Gold-Coast between the Akra 
 plain on one side and the Akim bush on the other. Akropong 
 and A buri are the two central places of a very blessed mis¬ 
 sionary transaction. 
 
 Aburi, 
 
 the sphere of labour of our venerable Senior, the Rev. Die- 
 terle, who has spent more than 20 years of indefatigable toil 
 at that Station, has according to the last returns 633 members, 
 viz. Aburi itself 320, Tutu (founded 1862) 198, Asantema (foun¬ 
 ded 1868) 78, and Nsakye (founded 1872) 37. — It is no doubt 
 the healthiest place among the old Stations of our Society, 
 and therefore the sanitarium not only of all the sick missio¬ 
 naries of the Akra and Adangme district, but also of many 
 Europeans, who have recovered their health under the kind 
 care of our two missionary families. The Girls’ Boarding 
 School for the Aquapim district is established there, and 
 offers a home and sound Christian education in all branches 
 suitable to the future life of the daughters of our Christians. 
 Many a young woman of our Aquapim Congregations has 
 received there the direction, how to found a happy home, in 
 which industry and sobriety are the handmaids, godliness 
 with faith and charity the pillars of the house. 
 
 Each of our districts has its Missionary Festival, where 
 Christians of the whole circuit flock together, as in olden times 
 the members of the sacred nation came together in Jerusalem 
 „whither the tribes go up, the tribes of the Lord unto the 
 
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 testimony of Israel to give thanks unto the name of the Lord. 4 * 
 Prayers, speeches by Europeans and Natives in turn and 
 many songs of the Congregation and several choirs refresh the 
 heart, produce a feeling of oneness and enliven the missio¬ 
 nary spirit. We record with pleasure that at Aburi such 
 days of gladness are celebrated every year with peculiar 
 propriety and success. We need such days of exultation in 
 the Lord instead of the foul rioting and the beastly pleasures 
 at heathen festivals, and nothing proves the holy influence of 
 Christianity better, than the difference between the rejoicing 
 in the Lord and the wantonness of the idol-worshippers, whose 
 God is their belly and whose glory is in their shame. 
 
 The want of a larger chapel at Aburi is felt keenly. 
 Might not the Christians there follow the good example of 
 
 other Congregations to help themselves in collecting the ne- 
 
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 cessary means for a house of God, large enough to offer room 
 for the great number of members of that Congregation ? We 
 are sure that the support of other Stations as well as of many 
 European friends, who have found new strength in the hos¬ 
 pitable mission house at Aburi, would soon follow the earnest 
 endeavours of self-activity of our Aburi members. 
 
 Akropong, 
 
 the capital of Aquapim, established by Rev. A. Riis in 1835,, 
 left vacant after his return to Europe during 1840 till 1843,. 
 is not only the oldest, but also the most noteworthy Station 
 of our African Mission. Not less than 1273 members of our 
 Society are gathered there, viz. at Akropong 398, Abireiv 86,. 
 Dawu 21, Date 387, Mamfe 107, Amanukrum 48, Mampong 39, 
 Adukrum and Apirade 155, Abonse 32 members. A considerable 
 staff of ordained European Missionaries and Native assistants 
 
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 work there in different branches and positions; hot most of 
 the Europeans are engaged in the educational department. 
 One of them is headmaster of the Boys’ Boarding School for 
 the Aquapim district, to which is closely connected the Trai¬ 
 ning institution for the Tshi-speaking tribes of the Gold- 
 Coast district. Another of our brethren has charge of the 
 Middle-school, two have the important task to impart to the 
 Akra and Tshi youths the theological sciences, which are 
 taught in Europe, clothed in their own native idiom, as far 
 as they are capable of receiving them. The course of studies 
 in this our theological seminary comprises: Introduction to 
 the Old and New Testament, History of the Church, Exege¬ 
 sis and Reading of the Bible in the Original: Hebrew and 
 Greek, Exercices and Grammar in these languages, Homile- 
 tical and Catechetical Exercises, Doctrines of faith, Biblical 
 Ethics and Comparison of Christian Churches (Knowledge of 
 symbols). Besides this theoretical instruction, we have not 
 left the practical training of the pupils out of sight. They 
 accompany their teachers regularly once or twice a week to 
 open air preaching in the neighbouring villages or on prea¬ 
 ching tours, and on these occasions the elder pupils have to 
 deliver addresses. This Seminary provides the Mission with 
 Catechists at an avarage of five per annum alter a course of 
 four years. Of course pious and trustworthy characters are consi¬ 
 dered even more essential, than scientific proficiency ; hut we trust that 
 the latter may prove a help and not a hindrance to the former. It is 
 our earnest prayer that the tone of conversation in this school may 
 increase to he a truly Christian one, more than we experienced it. 
 hitherto. We want thoroughly Christian and spiritually minded cha¬ 
 racters, true followers of Christ; for only these are the hope of Africa 
 to be regained for the Kingdom of Christ. A low minded pupil in 
 this Seminary seldom becomes a spiritually minded Catechist. 
 
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 We have mentioned already, that in our Middle-schools 
 at Christiansborg and Akropong those of our young men 
 receive admittance, who wish to prepare for Mission Ser¬ 
 vice. The subjects taught in those schools are: Bible rea¬ 
 ding with short explanations, Sacred History, Outlines of 
 the Doctrines of the Christian Religion, Geography, History, 
 Arithmetic, Geometry, Algebra, English, Greek, at Christians¬ 
 borg the Tshi, at Akropong the Akra or Ga language and 
 Singing. 
 
 CD CD 
 
 The use of the following books affords great help in 
 teaching viz: The Doctrines of the Christian Religion by 
 J. H. Kurtz D. D., translated into the Tshi language; Instruc¬ 
 tion in Arithmetic; Examples for the School-Arithmetic; Stories 
 from and Tables of General History; all these books printed 
 in Tshi, some of them in the Akra language too. An excel¬ 
 lent new grammar of the Ashante and Fante language is the 
 medium for introducing our scholars both into the English 
 and their own Vernacular. An English, Tshi, Akra Dictionary 
 facilitates the reading of English works to our scholars. The 
 „Tunes to the Tshi and Akra Hymn-Books“ offers choice 
 sacred and secular music to our Native choirs. In the Akra 
 language we possess a translation of the handy little book: 
 The Geography of Palestine by W. M. Leod and 3 Volumes 
 
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 of the General History by Redenbacher, a first rate German 
 popular work. 
 
 There are now 35 pupils in the Middle-school at Chris¬ 
 tiansborg, at Akropong 27. From these Middle-schools are 
 selected the young men who wish to become Teachers, and 
 those who are willing and whom we believe fit to become 
 Catechists. 
 
 The Teachers’ Seminary at Christiansborg has 4 pupils, 
 at Akropong there are 7. The course of studies in this Trai- 
 
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 ning school is partly theoretical and partly practical, that is, 
 besides receiving lessons in various sciences which a Teacher 
 wants most, the Seminarists have to impart lessons in the 
 junior classes of the Boys’ school under the surveillance of 
 older Teachers and the Missionaries, in charge of the Boar¬ 
 ding-schools. 
 
 Of these we have met already one at Christiansborg for 
 the Akra and Adangme district with 48 boys; the Akropong 
 Boarding-school offers room for and has according to the last 
 returns 50 pupils, especially from among the Aquapims; the 
 number of Akim boys at the Kyebi institution is 40. The 
 chief subjects of instruction (of course all taught in the Ver¬ 
 nacular) are the following : Reading, Writing, Grammar, the 
 elements of Arithmetic, the Outlines of Geography, Bible 
 stories and Bible reading, the learning by heart of Scripture 
 passages and of Hymns, and Singing. The course of instruc¬ 
 tion pursued in these schools is naturally of an elementary 
 kind; but a higher class is usually attached to them for those 
 boys (and in the Girls’ Boarding schools also for the girls), 
 who show good abilities and of whom it is presumed, that 
 they may become useful in the service of the Mission here¬ 
 after. In this ^higher class u English is taught too. Whilst 
 the forenoon in all our Boarding schools is dedicated to les¬ 
 sons, the greater part of the afternoon is employed for field 
 and garden work in the Boys’, and for sewing, knitting and 
 crochet work in the Girls’ institutions. 
 
 Our educational Department requires a large amount of 
 money, a sowing in hope of a joyful harvest, of which we 
 reap the firstfruits already. But the time is now come too, 
 that we must earnestly wish the increase in schoolfees. Our 
 Native friends, who wish to have their children educated, 
 seeing the great benefit of education, are bound to bear the 
 
expenses of it. We have therefore of late begun to fix cer¬ 
 tain sums for board and clothing etc., not only for the pupils 
 of the Boarding-schools, but also for the Middle-schools, and 
 it will be a question of time only that even the Seminarists 
 and Training-scholars shall contribute to the expenses of their 
 studies, as is the case in many other Societies already. We 
 refer to a report of a South African Mission, where we read, 
 that it was decided that all the Students of the Theological Mis¬ 
 sionary Institution there should in future pay £. 5 . . . a year 
 during their stay, instead of £. 5 as entrance fee only. It was 
 thought in the case of those upon whom the new regulations might 
 press heavily , the Congregations from which they come, or their own 
 friends would meet such exceptional and deserving cases by raising 
 the money for them. 
 
 The superintending Missionary at Akropong was glad of 
 being able to mention in his last report a change in the 
 right direction with regard to the endeavours at selfsupport 
 of the Akropong members. They were rather backward in 
 this respect, and had some difficulty to accustom themselves 
 to collections for Mission purposes and the regular Church- 
 tax, which is levied now from all our church-members. But 
 through the active influence of the Church Elders and our 
 Native Assistants at Akropong and on the Outstations, this 
 rule gains more and more ground. The Date Christians 
 especially have made up for former want of willingness to 
 church contributions by the material help in building both 
 School-house and Chapel. Considering the general poverty 
 of those Christians, we think these results very satisfactory 
 and encouraging. The endeavours of their zealous Deacon 
 Mr. Opoku have not been in vain. 
 
 Proceeding now to the last districts which we occupy, 
 to Akim, where we have two stations, Kyebi and Begoro , and to 
 
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 Okwao, with our station at Abetifi, we praise the Lord for the 
 happy changes which His Spirit effected in these back woods. 
 „The Lord has done great things for us; whereof we are 
 glad“! With these words of the 126 th Psalm one of our brethren 
 begins his last report of the station 
 
 Kyebi. 
 
 The hatred of the King of Akim to Christianity which induced 
 him to expel the Native Missionary Rev. D. Asante from his 
 country and to allow his attendants to illtreat several of our 
 church members and even to beat the wife of the Native Pastor 
 Hate in a most merciless manner, has had a result entirely 
 contrary to his intentions. „Our mouth is filled with laughter 
 and our tongue with singing writes the European successor 
 of D. Asante, at the end of a year, in which we were sorely 
 afflicted, tossed with tempest and not comforted. For the 
 Lord has done great things for us. He fulfilled his promise: 
 In righteousness shalt thou be established: thou shalt be far 
 from oppression; for thou shalt not fear: and from terror; 
 for it shall not come near thee. Behold, they shall surely 
 gather together, but not by me: whosoever shall gather toge¬ 
 ther against thee, shall fall for thy sake. Our enemies 
 thought evil against us, but God meant it unto good as it is 
 this day. The circuit of Kyebi had in fact the largest increase 
 of all our African Stations during 1878. Not less than 157 
 converts were baptized during that year. A great number of 
 outstations contributed towards this number. There are now 
 140 members at Kyebi itself, at Apapam 8 new converts, at 
 Kuhurantumi a Christian community of 75 members. A Cate¬ 
 chist was stationed at Asiahva because 22 persons were bap- 
 
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 tized since March 1878 and 4 Christians from other places 
 settled there. At Abomosu the number of Christians rose to 62. 
 At these and different other places the candidates for baptism 
 amount to 85 at the end of 1878, the greater part of which 
 will be baptized till this report is in the hands of our readers. 
 But we have not only to record a general increase of follo¬ 
 wers of Christ in those dark regions, the growth of genuine 
 Christian life too keeps pace with the outward building of 
 the Lord’s temple. It is for instance a great improvement 
 that 14 matrimonies were solemnized during last year. Among 
 the heathen the nephews only have the right of succession, 
 and as long as the families were mixed, one part Christian 
 the other heathen, the oncle or the aunt had more rights over 
 the children, than even the parents. The system of this 
 nephew succession is based on immoral principles. We feel 
 it our duty to do away with such heathen customs and see 
 the benefit of it in the improvements of family life and in 
 better attendance of our schools. Community of goods bet¬ 
 ween husband and wife is a strange idea to an Akim heathen; 
 but the spirit of Christ brings light and life in all such ques¬ 
 tions of new formed Christian communities. Rather difficult 
 is the relation of the Christians to king Ata, difficult, because 
 we keep to the rule of the apostle ,,Let every soul be sub¬ 
 ject unto the higher powers“; though the king is not a terror 
 to evil works, but to good. Still we advice our people to 
 suffer and to be subject for conscience sake; in all and every 
 case to render to all their dues : tribute, to whom tribute is 
 due; fear to whom fear, honour to whom honour. Of all the 
 kings and chiefs of the Gold-Coast with whom we live, king 
 Ata only has the doubtful honour to be an enemy of mission 
 work. The relations which exist between our Deacon Mr. 
 Koranteng and the chief of Kukurantumi are far more profitable. 
 
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 The Christians at that place are busy to collect the ne¬ 
 cessary materials for a new Chapel, though they are very 
 poor. The chapel at Kyebi too wants enlargement because 
 the old one offers not sufficient room for the increased num¬ 
 ber of hearers. In some villages no house for worship is 
 built yet, in others it is only a room attached to the Cate¬ 
 chist’s house; at Abomosu the members have erected a splen¬ 
 did cathedral“ in their opinion and in comparison of the 
 hovels in which the inhabitants of that remote place use to 
 live hitherto. The visiting Missionary, though greatly pleased 
 with the spirit of willingness of the young Christians for the 
 good cause, only found a very primitive shed, but sufficient 
 for the beginning. The death of our beloved Catechist Mr. 
 Hall at that Outstation was a severe loss. It was rumored 
 that a fetishpriest in his wrath because of the increasing in¬ 
 fluence of Christianity had poisoned him; but the case is not 
 sufficiently cleared up till now. On all the Akim Stations 
 and Outplaces the interest in the Sunday schools is note¬ 
 worthy. Among the Dwabengs, who settled near Kukuran- 
 tumi, a new field of labour has opened, which we have the 
 intention to occupy as soon as possible. Lord, send forth 
 labourers into Thy harvest! 
 
 With regard to our other Akim Station, 
 
 Begoro, 
 
 we refer our friends to the special Report of the Ashante 
 Mission, which appeared at the end of 1878. We give a short 
 extract of it to complete the picture of our Mission work on 
 the Gold-Coast. 
 
 Begoro is the healthiest among all our African Stations as 
 it lies 1500' high. There is good well water all the year 
 
round. The people are strong, living chiefly on agriculture. 
 On the 21 st December 1875 Rev. A. Mohr and his Native 
 Assistant Obeng arrived at Begoro, and twelwe days later Mr. 
 Glatzle (see page 40), an artisan, joined them. Close to the town 
 is a beautiful hill with primeval forest, which was purchased 
 by the Missionaries for a Station. Three days after Mr. Mohr’s 
 arrival, his Native Assistant brought eight Begoro men to him, 
 who applied for Baptism. Their number soon increased to 
 lifteen, so that the construction of the station buildings and 
 the instruction of these candidates had to go on together. 
 Many difficulties had to be overcome; but on the 25 th May 
 1876, the day of Ascension, our brethren had a blessed day. 
 Nine people were baptized, the first fruits of the Begoro 
 Mission work. A short time afterwards a school was opened. 
 The Christians were very busy to build their dwellings, close 
 to the compound of the Mission, because experience had taught 
 us, that it is an advantage to young Christians to be sepa¬ 
 rated from the filth, noise and immorality of their heathen 
 families. Improved dwellings, cleanliness, regular morning 
 and evening worship are important things for the establish¬ 
 ment of a Christian community. On the laying of a sound 
 foundation the future prosperity of the whole work is depen¬ 
 ding. The most powerful Missionary is a Congregation that 
 exhibits the spiritual as well as the temporal blessings of 
 Christianity to the heathen. On the 31 st December 1876 seven 
 families lived in their own houses, built by themselves near 
 the Missionhouse, and their number is gradually increasing 
 with the number of Christians. On the 10 th May 1877 a nice 
 chapel was opened and consecrated to the Lord. On the same 
 day eleven persons were baptized and three couples married. 
 The heathen got a deep impression by all they saw and heard 
 on that day. Since that the work is prospering in every 
 
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 respect. The Mission buildings are now finished, viz. the 
 chapel, a missionhouse with 8 rooms, a house for a Cate¬ 
 chist, an other one for a teacher. 
 
 At Fankyeneko at the foot of the Begoro mountains an 
 Outstation is founded since the 19 th Aug. 1878. 16 Christians 
 are there and some Candidates. The Catechist is very busy 
 in the itinerary work. There are now 66 members in the 
 
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 Begoro circuit. The year 1878 brought an increase of 32 
 members; from Begoro itself 16 and 16 from Fankyeneko. 
 May the Lord bless the Begoro Station on the future as He 
 has done hitherto. 
 
 Abetifi, 
 
 the capital of Okwao, was selected as Mission station after a 
 careful investigation of this former province of Ashante. The 
 distance from Begoro in Akim to the first village of Okwao 
 is three days, Abetifi only lour days journey from Coomassie. 
 On the 8 th of Feb. 1876 Mr. Ramseyer, Mr. Werner and 
 Mr. Weimer arrived at Abetifi. Mr. Ramseyer recognized the 
 place well, and most of the people remembered him, for he 
 had passed through Okwao as prisoner on his transport to 
 Coomassie. The land for establishing a Station was pur¬ 
 chased. Mr. Ramseyer went back to the Colony to engage 
 Native artisans on the coast. Mess rs Werner and Weimer in 
 the meantime cleared the jungle and commenced work at 
 once. Mr. and Mrs. Ramseyer with the artisans were soon 
 expected and then the work could be pushed forward vigo¬ 
 rously. But — „My thoughts are not your thoughts, says 
 the Lord.“ Mrs. Ramseyer was seized with a paralytical 
 stroke, and the Doctor gave order to bring her to Europe 
 without delay. The situation of Mr. Werner and Mr. Weimer 
 
39 
 
 at Abetifi was trying. They had no African experience, and 
 only a small number of artisans from the coast, partly very 
 doubtful characters, went to the interior. Notwithstanding 
 these and many other difficulties the work was brought so 
 far that on the 31 st Dec. 1876 the stonewalls of the first story 
 of the Mission house, the walls of a dwelling for a Native 
 Catechist and the foundation of a Chapel etc. were finished. 
 But the rains set in very early, before the roof could be put 
 on and consequently the clay walls of the second story were 
 destroyed. It was therefore made of frame work and finished 
 in the comparatively short time of two months. This was 
 possible by the assistance of Mr. Buss, a European carpenter, 
 who in company of a number of good Native artisans arrived 
 at Abetifi in January 1877. Now it was possible to proceed 
 with more force. According to the last reports the work of 
 building at Abetifi has come to an end. We find now there 
 on our visit a two storied Mission house, a nice chapel and 
 the dwellings of 2 Native assistants. 
 
 From the commencement the Gospel was regularly prea¬ 
 ched in the town, and other places were visited too. But the 
 Okwaoes are much more enslaved in fetishism than the coast 
 people, and the fetishpriests have far more influence than in 
 the Colony. An other difficulty is domestic slavery. For these 
 reasons it was difficult for some time to establish schools. 
 Never the less a Boys Boarding School has been opened, which by 
 God’s help may become a nursery for future Native Ashante 
 Missionaries. 
 
 The friends of the Ashante Mission will be glad to hear 
 that Mrs. Ramseyer has so far recovered that she and Mr. 
 Ramseyer could return to Abetifi at the end of 1877. May 
 the Lord be with them after years of severe trials, and make 
 them a blessing for Ashante! — Mr. Weimer has left Abetifi 
 
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 40 
 
 to take his place at the Boys’ Boarding School at Akropong. 
 Mr. Buss has also been removed and stationed at Date, to 
 superintend the building of the new chapel there. Mr. Ram¬ 
 sey er and Mr. Werner will remain at Abetifi with 2 Native 
 assistants. If the Lord spare them, it will be possible to 
 extend the work to all towns and villages of Okwao and 
 further on.*) 
 
 The Lord our God has in His lovingkindness established 
 His church at Okwao too by bringing a small number of 
 young men to the knowledge of their salvation. They have 
 turned away from the dumb idols and been brought to faith 
 in the living God and in Christ our Saviour. May they abide 
 in Him and may their number increase to hundreds and 
 thousands who yet living in heathen darkness are waiting 
 for the „beautiful feet u of Him that ,,bringeth good tidings u . 
 
 We have finished our survey and must indeed be truly 
 thankful for the manifold blessings which the Lord has besto¬ 
 wed upon the humble endeavours of our Society. The dark¬ 
 ness of night has been dispelled to nearly four thousands of 
 Natives under our care by the Sun of Righteousness. On 
 behalf of thousands perishing for lack of knowledge, and in 
 the name of Jesus, wo died that they might live, we appeal 
 to our friends to help forward this work by increased libe¬ 
 rality, and by yet more frequent and earnest prayer for the 
 success of Missionary labours. With a zeal that knows no 
 discouragement, and a faith that knows no denial, let us 
 
 *) Just before concluding the printing of this Keport we are struck 
 by the sore news of the decease of our dear brethren G. Glatzle at Begoro 
 (f 15. May 1879) and E. Werner at Abetifi (f 22. May 1879). 
 
41 
 
 wrestle with God for the conversion of the world to Christ, 
 encouraged by the assurance that „He must reign till He 
 hath put all enemies under His feet . u Let us go on to 
 labour with all our heart for Him, who has loved us and 
 laid down His life for us. At the great day of His coming 
 we shall see the fruit of our work and rejoice with all those 
 who „shall come from the East and from the West, from the 
 North and from the South, and shall sit down in the kingdom 
 of God. u With the old Gospel committed to us to „preach 
 to every creature u ; with the power of the Holy Ghost vouch¬ 
 safed to give effect to our efforts; and with the mighty pro¬ 
 mise : „Lo, J am with you alway“ we cannot fail. The Church 
 may be harrassed, but „God shall help her and that right 
 early“; the heathen may rage, but „the Lord shall have them 
 in derision u ; the nations of the earth may refuse to serve 
 the Lord’s Anointed, but those nations shall be „utterly was¬ 
 ted “. Therefore „ye, that make mention of the Lord, keep 
 not silence; and give Him no rest still He establish and till 
 He make Jerusalem a praise in the Earth.“ 
 
 In the name of the Basel Evang. Missionary Society 
 
 Otto Schott, 
 
 Principal and Inspector. 
 
Donations and Subscriptions in Behalf of the 
 Basel Mission will be thankfully received by 
 
 Chr. J. Buhl, Esq. 
 
 Treasurer of the Basel Mission at Chris- 
 tiansborg, and by all the Missionaries 
 
 of the Society. 
 
 J. P. Werner, Esq. 
 
 New Broad-Street 19, London E. C. 
 
Appendix I. 
 
 European Missionaries 
 
 of th.e Basel German Evangelical Mission 
 
 on th.e G-old-Coast. 
 
 Corrected up to the 1st July 1879. 
 
 [The letter (in.) after the names signifies: ,,married", and the letter (w.): „'wido'wer“« 
 The names of nnordained Brethren are marked by an asterik.] 
 
 Name 
 
 Native 
 
 Country 
 
 Date of ac¬ 
 tive Service 
 
 Station 
 
 J. Chr. Dieterle (m.) 
 
 Germany 
 
 1846 
 
 Aburi 
 
 H. L. Rottmann (m.)* 1 
 
 do. 
 
 1854 
 
 Accra 
 
 D. Eisenschmid (w.) 
 
 do. 
 
 1861 
 
 Akropong 
 
 D. Asante (m.) 
 
 Africa 
 
 1862 
 
 Nsakye 
 
 Ph. H. Boliner (m.) 
 
 Germany 
 
 1863 
 
 Abokobi 
 
 Fr. Ramseyer (m.) 
 
 Switzerland 
 
 1864 
 
 Abetifi 
 
 J. Weiss (m.) 
 
 do. 
 
 1865 
 
 Odumase 
 
 J. Muller (m.) 
 
 Germany 
 
 1865 
 
 Aburi 
 
 J. Binder (m.)* 
 
 do. 
 
 1866 
 
 Add ah 
 
 G. J. Lodholz (m.) 
 
 do. 
 
 1867 
 
 Kyebi 
 
 Chr. Jm. Buhl (rn.)* 
 
 do. 
 
 1869 
 
 Christiansborg 
 
 J. Kopp (m.) 
 
 do. 
 
 1869 
 
 Abokobi 
 
 P. Steiner (m.) 
 
 do. 
 
 1872 
 
 Christiansborg 
 
 A. Langhorst (m.) 
 
 do. 
 
 1872 
 
 Addah 
 
 J. M. Muller (m.) 
 
 do. 
 
 1873 
 
 Akropong 
 
 Th. Essler (m.) 1 ) 
 
 Germany 
 
 1873 
 
 Akropong 
 
 Chs. Bender* 
 
 do. 
 
 1874 
 
 Accra 
 
 x ) Went home in May 1879. 
 
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 Name 
 
 Native 
 
 Country 
 
 Date of ac¬ 
 
 tive Service 
 
 Station 
 
 N. Dieterle* 
 
 ‘Africa 
 
 1875 
 
 Accra 
 
 J. Weimer* 
 
 Germany 
 
 1875 
 
 Akropong 
 
 Chs. Weigle (m.)* 
 
 India 
 
 1875 
 
 Akuse 
 
 G. Glatzle (m.) 2 ) 
 
 Germany 
 
 1875 
 
 Begoro 
 
 Ad. Moln*. (ni.) 
 
 Africa 
 
 1875 
 
 do. 
 
 E. Werner (m.) 2 ) 
 
 Germany 
 
 1875 
 
 Abetili 
 
 G. L. Schmid (m.) 
 
 do. 
 
 1876 
 
 Akropong 
 
 R. Furrer 
 
 Switzerland 
 
 1876 
 
 Odumase 
 
 M. Seeger (m.)* 
 
 Germany 
 
 1876 
 
 Christiansborg 
 
 Ph. Buss* 
 
 do. 
 
 1876 
 
 Date 
 
 C. Buck 
 
 do. 
 
 1876 
 
 Kyebi 
 
 E. Preiswerk* 
 
 Switzerland 
 
 1877 
 
 Akuse 
 
 A. Sixt* 
 
 Germany 
 
 1877 
 
 Christiansborg 
 
 E. R. P. Buttner* 
 
 do. 
 
 1877 
 
 Addali 
 
 A. Schmidt 
 
 France 
 
 1878 
 
 Christiansborg 
 
 W. Ochsner 
 
 Switzerland 
 
 1878 
 
 do. 
 
 G. Gauger* 
 
 Germany 
 
 1878 
 
 Accra 
 
 J. J. Scholler 
 
 do. 
 
 1879 
 
 Akropong 
 
 Unmarried Female Agents. 
 
 
 Miss Wilh. Maurer 
 
 Germany 
 
 1857 
 
 Abokobi 
 
 Mrs. Lydia Mtih (w.) 
 
 do. 
 
 1876 
 
 Odumase 
 
 
 At Home: 
 
 
 
 J. G. Christaller (m.) 
 
 Germany 
 
 1852 
 
 late of Akropong 
 
 C. Schonfeld (m.) 3 ) 
 
 do. 
 
 1863 
 
 „ „ Odumase 
 
 J. Kiihne* 
 
 do. 
 
 1866 
 
 „ „ Coomassie 
 
 J. G. Fritz (m.) 
 
 do. 
 
 1870 
 
 „ „ Chris tiansb 
 
 J. Bischoff 
 
 Switzerland 
 
 1876 
 
 „ „ do. 
 
 l ) Went home in May 1879. a ) Died in May 1879. *) Returns to Africa in 1879. 
 
Appendix II, a. 
 
 v 
 
 European Missionaries of the Basel Mission removed by death, on the Gold-Coast, Western Africa 
 
 Between 1829—1878. 
 
 2. Salbach, Carl Ferdinand 
 
 3. Schmid, Joh. Gottlieb 
 
 4. Henke, Joh. Philipp 
 Heinze, Christ. Friedr. 
 
 6. Jaeger, Peter Petersen 
 
 5. 
 
 7. Stano-er, Andreas 
 
 8. Miirdter, Johannes 
 
 9. Sebald, Ernst Friedr. 
 
 10. Koester, Carl Friedr. 
 
 11. Herzog, Friedr. 
 
 12. Steinhauser, With. August 
 
 13. Honger, Abraham 
 
 14. Baum, David 
 
 15. Hied, Michael 
 
 16. Pfrunder, Jacob 
 
 17. Schellenberg, Joh. Heinr. 
 
 18. Weiblen, Johannes 
 
 19. Maier, Johannes 
 
 20. Schimaneck, G. Heinr. 
 
 21. Lindenmann, Sebastian 
 
 22. Heck, Jacob 
 
 23. Klaus, Bobert 
 
 24. Rehfuss, Friedrich 
 
 25. Liithv, Joh. Ulrich 
 
 26. Haas, Johannes 
 
 27. Handel, Heinr. Wilhelm 
 
 28. Klass, Jacob 
 
 29. Weber, Joh. Jacob 
 
 30. Miih, Michael 
 
 31. Widmann, Joh. Georg 
 
 32. Zimmermann, Johannes 
 
 33. Petavel, August 
 
 34. Krauss, C. Heinrich 
 
 35. Wornle, W. Louis 
 
 36. Buch, Joh. Friedrich 
 
 37. Ehmer, Friedr. August 
 
 38. Jordi, Johannes 
 
 39. Sauter, Martin 
 
 Allmersbach, Wtbg. 
 Koepenik n/Berlin 
 Aarburg, Switzerland 
 Kirberg, Nassau 
 Kuniwalde, Saxony 
 Loit, Sleswik 
 Moettlingen, Wtbg. 
 
 Adel berg, „ 
 Auernheim, Bavaria 
 Schweighofen „ 
 
 ? Baden 
 
 Langenwinkel, „ 
 Roggwyl, Switzerland 
 Mahlberg, Baden 
 Langensteinbach, Baden 
 Mannedorf, Switzerland 
 Freiweid, „ 
 
 Metzingen, Wtbg. 
 Gutenberg, „ 
 
 V ichberg, „ 
 
 Gais, Switzerland 
 Gerlingen, Wtbg. 
 Wetzikon, Switzerland 
 Ebingen, Wtbg. 
 Miinsingen, Switzerland 
 
 Auswyt „ 
 
 Heinsheim, Baden 
 Nekartenzlingen, Wtbg. 
 Hensberg, Switzerland 
 Hausen a/L., Wtbg. 
 Gnibel, „ 
 
 Gerlingen, „ 
 
 Bole, Switzerland 
 Heilbronn, Wtbg. 
 Stuttgart, „ 
 Russheim, Baden 
 Klein-Heppach, Wtbg. 
 Sumiswald, Switzerland 
 Thieringen, Wtbg. 
 
 28 December 1799 
 
 8 August 1804 
 30 December 1798 
 15 December 1804 
 
 7 April 1808 
 21 March 1811 
 18 July 1809 
 1 December 1814 
 
 10 February 1820 
 13 August 1824 
 
 7 November 1829 
 
 9 November 1832 
 9 March 1827 
 
 1 March 1833 
 27 January 1831 
 
 23 January 1836 
 
 3 December 1835 
 21 July 1840 
 
 11 January 1836 
 
 4 July 1837 
 
 4 May 1832 
 
 10 January 1841 
 
 1 July 1841 
 
 6 December 1839 
 
 5 August 1843 
 
 15 June 1851 
 
 6 June 1849 
 
 16 July 1842 
 
 8 March 1846 
 30 January 1814 
 
 2 March 1825 
 
 21 November 1846 
 2 March 1852 
 
 11 January 1856 
 
 12 July 1851 
 
 24 July 1845 
 30 March 1849 
 
 26 December 1852 
 
 18 December 1828 
 
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 3 November 1836 
 
 10 January 1845 
 
 18 March 1811 
 
 31 December 1855 
 
 25 January 1853 
 
 26 March 1857 
 
 31 December 1855 
 23 December 1856 
 
 26 October 1861 
 
 19 January 1862 
 22 January 1861 
 
 20 May 1863 
 
 20 August 1863 
 
 22 June 1864 
 
 23 December 1856 
 
 21 February 1864 
 
 17 November 1866 
 29 November 1872 
 8 February 1875 
 
 22 October 1871 
 
 27 October 1870 
 
 2 December 1873 
 17 April 1843 
 
 14 April 1850 
 
 3 January 1877 
 
 28 May 1873 
 
 7 December 1876 
 3 January 1877 
 1 December 1875 
 20 June 1877 
 7 December 1876 
 
 Christiansborg 
 
 Akropong 
 
 Christiansborg 
 
 Abokobi 
 
 Christiansborg 
 
 Gyadam 
 
 Christiansborg 
 
 Abokobi 
 
 Christiansborg 
 
 Abokobi 
 
 Akropong 
 
 Abun 
 
 Christiansborg 
 
 Odnmase 
 
 Christiansborg 
 
 Abokobi 
 
 Adafo 
 
 Kyebi 
 
 Akropong 
 
 Adafo 
 
 Christiansborg 
 
 Akropong 
 
 Gerlingen, wtb. 
 
 Akropong 
 
 Aburi 
 
 Christiansborg 
 
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 Akropong 
 
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 Birthday 
 
 Arrival in 
 
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 Burial- 
 
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 Date of Death 
 
 Stationed at 
 
 12 August 1829 
 29 „ 
 
 27 November 1831 
 26 April 1832 
 
 18 July 1832 
 24 December 1837 
 
 4 November 1838 
 7 December 1845 
 
 15 June 1849 
 22 May 1856 
 
 13 September 1857 
 18 May 1858 
 
 14 August 1858 
 
 5 April 1860 
 22 March 1862 
 
 26 November 1862 
 
 15 May 1863 
 15 June 1864 
 
 26 January 1866 
 
 28 February 1866 
 11 May 1866 
 
 22 April 1868 
 4 July 1868 
 7 May 1869 
 1 June 1873 
 21 May 1875 
 
 29 August 1875 
 
 11 September 1875 
 13 September 1876 
 
 27 November 1876 
 
 13 December 1876 
 
 6 January 1877 
 
 14 June 1877 
 
 26 September 1877 
 1 March 1878 
 
 28 March 1878 
 
 12 July 1878 
 
 9 November 1878 
 
 Christiansborg 
 
 Akropong 
 
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 Christiansborg 
 
 Gyadam 
 
 Christiansborg and Abokobi 
 Gyadam 
 
 Christiansborg and Abokobi 
 Odumase 
 
 Christiansborg and Dowromadam 
 
 Odumase and Dowromadam 
 Christiansborg 
 
 Abokobi, Odumase and Christiansborg 
 Christiansborg and Anum 
 
 Abokobi 
 
 Christiansborg 
 
 Kyebi 
 
 Christiansborg 
 Odumase and Adafo 
 Christiansborg 
 Akropong 
 
 Christiansborg, Abokobi, Akropong, 
 Akropong [Odumase 
 
 Christiansborg 
 
 Abokobi and Christiansborg 
 
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 Missionary Ladies of the Basel Mission decease! on the Gold-Coast, Western Africa 
 
 since the commencement of that Mission till 1878. 
 
 Names 
 
 Maiden 
 
 name 
 
 Birthplace 
 
 Married to: 
 
 Solemnization 
 of Matrimony 
 
 Deceased 
 
 
 Stationed at 
 
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 W olter 
 
 Christiansfeld 
 
 Andreas Riis 
 
 lij December 1838 
 
 3 September 1845 
 
 Akropong 
 
 died 
 
 near Cape Verde 
 
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 Bandholz 
 
 Kiel 
 
 H. K. Riis 
 
 November 1848 
 
 14 October 1849 
 
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 3. 
 
 Anna Furrer 
 
 Wengi, Switzerland 
 
 arrived in Africa 
 
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 1 August 1859 
 
 Aburi 
 
 11 
 
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 4. Fried. Lonise Magd. Schall 
 
 Megler 
 
 Ingelfingen, Wtbg. 
 
 Eberhard Schall 
 
 21 August 1860 
 
 1 July 1862 
 
 Abokobi 
 
 n 
 
 „ Abokobi 
 
 | 5. Marie Fried. Cath. Heck 
 
 Rueff 
 
 Stuttgart, „ 
 
 Jakob Heck 
 
 11 August 1860 
 
 4 July 1862 
 
 Odumase 
 
 n 
 
 „ Odumase 
 
 6. Christ. Emilie Christaller 
 
 Ziegler 
 
 Waiblingen, „• 
 
 G. Christaller 
 
 2 January 1857 
 
 13 August 1866 
 
 Kyebi 
 
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 7. Rosine Fried. Eisenschmid 
 
 Gross 
 
 Urach, „ 
 
 D. Eisenschmid 
 
 1 February 1865 
 
 9 May 1867 
 
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 Kromer 
 
 Metzingen, „ 
 
 A. Schdnhuth 
 
 'i\ November 1866 
 
 12 October 1867 
 
 Christiansborg 
 
 „ Christiansborg 
 
 ■ 9. Christiane Rehfuss 
 
 Mitscli 
 
 Echterdingen, „ 
 
 Fr. Rehfuss 
 
 5 July 1867 
 
 9 March 1868 
 
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 Bienzle 
 
 Mdhringen, „ 
 
 M. Klaiber 
 
 91 March 1864 
 
 5 November 1868 
 
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 11. Rosine Klaiber 
 
 Bienzle 
 
 11 H 
 
 M. Klaiber 
 
 3 September 1870 
 
 7 May 1871 
 
 Odumase 
 
 
 „ Odumase 
 
 12. Pauline Walker 
 
 Schmid 
 
 Eriswyl, Switzerland 
 
 J. J. Walker 
 
 (January 1871 
 
 25 September 1872 
 
 Akropong 
 
 
 „ Akropong 
 
 13. Ernestine Mader 
 
 Binder 
 
 Kornthal, Wtbg. 
 
 J. A. Mader 
 
 1jJanuary 1856 
 
 19 February 1873 
 
 11 
 
 
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 14. Maria Haas 
 
 Strub 
 
 Schwabsburg, Hessen 
 
 Ludw. Haas 
 
 n December 1872 
 
 6 November 1873 
 
 Kyebi 
 
 
 * Kyebi 
 
 15. Fried. Magd. Philippine 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Bohner 
 
 Krieg 
 
 Mannheim, Baden 
 
 Ph. Bohner 
 
 1 October 1872 
 
 19 May 1875 
 
 Abokobi 
 
 
 „ Abokobi 
 
 16. Ernestine Muller 
 
 Konig 
 
 Lorch, Wtbg, 
 
 Joh. Muller 
 
 i February 1871 
 
 11 December 1877 
 
 Akropong 
 
 
 „ Akropong 
 
 17. Hanna Eisenschmid 
 
 Layer 
 
 Wilhelmsdorf, Wtbg. 
 
 D. Eisenschmid 
 
 ! March 1868 
 
 14 December 1877 
 
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 O 
 
 O 
 
 CP 
 
 aj 
 
 CP 
 
 w 
 
 .2 
 
 H—' 
 fH 
 
 -H 
 
 *-4H 
 
 05 
 
 be 
 
 d 
 
 d 
 
 .2 
 
 r* 
 
 s 
 
 yj 
 
 d 
 
 CP j 
 
 Se 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 OP 
 
 H 
 
 H 
 
 Alcra (or Ga). 
 Christiansborg . . . 
 
 4 
 
 10 
 
 3 
 
 1 
 
 6 
 
 4 
 
 i 
 
 294 
 
 24 
 
 257 
 
 575 
 
 10 
 
 48 
 
 
 136 
 
 58 
 
 13 
 
 6 
 
 35 
 
 4 
 
 
 Abokobi. 
 
 5 
 
 2 
 
 3 
 
 1 
 
 6 
 
 4 
 
 5 
 
 301 
 
 22 
 
 262 
 
 588 
 
 35 
 
 — 
 
 44 
 
 44 
 
 8 
 
 77 
 
 3 
 
 
 
 
 Adangme. 
 
 Odumase. 
 
 2 
 
 4 
 
 3 
 
 1 
 
 2 
 
 2 
 
 2 
 
 114 
 
 24 
 
 127. 
 
 263 
 
 9 
 
 _ 
 
 17 
 
 33 
 
 24 
 
 17 
 
 9 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 Ada ....... 
 
 4 
 
 3 
 
 2 
 
 — 
 
 2 
 
 1 
 
 — 
 
 118 
 
 38 
 
 73 
 
 229 
 
 27 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 12 
 
 5 
 
 10 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 
 Aquapim. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 14 
 
 
 
 
 Aburi. 
 
 o 
 
 O 
 
 3 
 
 3 
 
 1 
 
 2 
 
 5 
 
 5 
 
 246 
 
 37 
 
 3'50 
 
 633 
 
 11 
 
 — 
 
 45 
 
 91 
 
 11 
 
 95 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 Akropong. 
 
 8 
 
 5 
 
 3 
 
 1 
 
 13 
 
 7 
 
 2 
 
 565 
 
 75 
 
 633 
 
 1273 
 
 35 
 
 50 
 
 — 
 
 221 
 
 52 
 
 60 
 
 12 
 
 27 
 
 7 
 
 21 
 
 Akim. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Kyebi. 
 
 4 
 
 1 
 
 — 
 
 2 
 
 5 
 
 3 
 
 •— 
 
 170 
 
 66 
 
 71) 
 
 315 
 
 37 
 
 40 
 
 — 
 
 41 
 
 38 
 
 9 
 
 2 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 Begoro. 
 
 1 
 
 3 
 
 1 
 
 — 
 
 2 
 
 1 
 
 — 
 
 43 
 
 1 
 
 22 
 
 66 
 
 14 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 3 
 
 8 
 
 2 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 
 Okie an (Ashante). 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Abetifi. 
 
 — 
 
 3 
 
 2 
 
 — 
 
 1 
 
 1 
 
 — 
 
 16 
 
 1 
 
 •j 
 
 19 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 7 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 - ; 
 
 Total 
 
 i 
 
 31 
 
 34 
 
 20 
 
 7 
 
 39 
 
 26 
 
 15 
 
 1870 
 
 288 
 
 1803 
 
 3961 
 
 178 
 
 138 
 
 106 
 
 581 
 
 211 
 
 283 
 
 46 
 
 62 
 
 11 
 
 21 
 
 (V 1 
 
Appendix IV. 
 
 Funds of the Congregations. 
 
 Stations 
 
 and 
 
 Outstations. 
 
 Fund 
 
 for 
 
 Chapel 
 
 Building 
 
 Church 
 
 and 
 
 School 
 
 Fund 
 
 Poor- 
 
 Fund 
 
 
 £ Sh. P. 
 
 £ Sh. P. 
 
 £ Sh. P. 
 
 Christiansborg 
 
 — . — . —. 
 
 51. 5. 11. 
 
 61. 19. 9. 
 
 AJcra 
 
 —. — . —. 
 
 2. 1. 6. 
 
 * • • 
 
 Abokobi 
 
 —. — . —. 
 
 49. 8. 5. 
 
 24. 2. 7. 
 
 Maiera 
 
 12. 6. 7. 
 
 21. 15. 4. 
 
 • • » 
 
 Sasabi 
 
 — . — . —. 
 
 3. 1. 8. 
 
 ♦ ♦ • 
 
 Oyarefa 
 
 — . — . — . 
 
 • ♦ • 
 
 • "♦ • 
 
 Odumase 
 
 —. —, —. 
 
 162. 13. 6. 
 
 53. 17. 4. 
 
 Ada 
 
 — . — . —. 
 
 18. 4. 7. 
 
 5. 15. 9. 
 
 Adafo 
 
 — . — . —. 
 
 15. 11. 1. 
 
 2. 12. 3. 
 
 Tamatoku 
 
 — . —. — . 
 
 —. 6. —. 
 
 ♦ ♦ • 
 
 Abari 
 
 27. 16. —. 
 
 75. 13. 10. 
 
 43. —. —. 
 
 Tutu 
 
 —. —. —. 
 
 14. 10. —. 
 
 15. 0. 6. 
 
 Nsakyi 
 
 —. —. —. 
 
 7. 6. -. 
 
 1. 13. 6. 
 
 AJcropong 
 
 —:♦ —. —♦ 
 
 73. 11. 6. 
 
 50. 7. 5. 
 
 Date 
 
 102. —. —. 
 
 1. 14. 9. 
 
 6. 11. 5. 
 
 Mamfe-Mampong 
 
 —. — . — . 
 
 2. 7. 10. 
 
 1. 17. 7. 
 
 Adukrom 
 
 —. —. —. 
 
 3. 10. 5. 
 
 2. 17. —. 
 
 Abonse 
 
 -• - ♦ -♦ 
 
 -. 14. —. 
 
 ' • » • 
 
 Kjebi 
 
 —. —. —. 
 
 16. 14. 4. 
 
 19. 14. 8. 
 
 Kukurantumi 
 
 —. —. —. 
 
 8. 3. 9. 
 
 —. 10. 4. 
 
 Asiakwa 
 
 —. —. —. 
 
 1 . 2. 
 
 • ♦ ♦ 
 
 JBegoro 
 
 —. —. —♦ 
 
 3. 6. 5. 
 
 2. 7. 2. 
 
 Abetifi 
 
 —. —. —. 
 
 1 . 1 . 1 . 
 
 ♦ • • 
 
 
 142. 2. 7. 
 
 534. 3. 11. 
 
 292. 3. 2. 
 
The Jubilee-Church at Akropong, 
 
JANUARY, 1945 
 
 THANKSGIVINGS 
 
 AND 
 
 INTERCESSIONS 
 
 FOR THE WORK OF THE 
 
 UNIVERSITIES’ MISSION 
 TO CENTRAL AFRICA 
 
 i 
 
 BISHOPS 
 
 Frank, Bishop of Nyasaland 
 Robert, Bishop of N. Rhodesia 
 William, Bishop of Zanzibar 
 
 For the names of the Diocesan Staffs see “Central Africa 
 November , 1944, and January , 1945. 
 
 COLLECT FOR THE MISSION 
 
 B LESS, O LORD, we beseech Thee, the 
 Universities’ Mission to Central Africa 
 and all, whether at home or abroad, who are 
 labouring therein. Let Thy Holy Spirit teach, 
 comfort and strengthen us, so that we may 
 glorify Thee and help forward the salvation of 
 others, through Jesus Christ our Lord.— Amen. 
 
Htt us gibe tfjanfes 
 
 For the Incarnation of the Son of God, 
 bringing salvation to the peoples of Africa 
 and of all nations. 
 
 'jh. Praise ye the Lord. 
 
 R7. Thanks be to God. 
 
 For the faith and worship of the African 
 Church. 
 
 For witness to the power of God’s grace 
 by African Christians serving in the Forces. 
 
 For the devotion and leadership of their 
 African chaplains. 
 
 For progress of medical work at Msoro in 
 Northern Rhodesia. 
 
 For a better standard of living in many 
 African homes and villages. 
 
 For gifts of continued health and 
 strength to the staff in Africa amid ever- 
 increasing difficulties and strain. 
 
 For the zeal and generosity of those who 
 maintain the Mission’s income (page 16). 
 
 Het us prap 
 
 That God will bless to His greater glory 
 the work of the Mission at home and 
 abroad during the coming year. 
 
¥ • Lord , hear our prayer. 
 
 R 7 . And let our cry come unto Thee. 
 
 That Vincent Lucas, Bishop, may be 
 granted the comfort of the Holy Spirit 
 in his sickness and retirement. 
 
 That God will guide those responsible 
 for the choice of his successor in the see 
 of Masasi. 
 
 That God will perfect His gifts in the 
 Africans to be ordained to the diaconate 
 in Zanzibar diocese at this time—Yohana 
 Jumaa, Petro Kalage, Yusuf Kiaka, 
 Herbert Mganga, Andrea Muya, John 
 Salimu, and Andrea Semahimbo. 
 
 That both Christian men who are 
 working away from home and the wives 
 from whom they are separated may have 
 grace to withstand their special tempta¬ 
 tions and difficulties (page 3 ). 
 
 That the urgent need of the Mission for 
 more priests, doctors, nurses, teachers and 
 laymen may soon be met. 
 
 That all members of the staff may be 
 strengthened by God’s grace to hold fast 
 to their vocations. 
 
 That God will comfort and relieve the 
 sick, especially Vincent Lucas, Bishop. 
 
For refreshment, light and peace to the 
 souls of the faithful departed, especially 
 Mika Twanje, Deacon, and . . . (see list). 
 
 O GOD, Who rulest over Thy people with 
 fatherly love, raise up, we beseech 1 hee, a 
 devout and faithful bishop for Thy Church in 
 Masasi, and supply him with wisdom, strength 
 and charity for Thy work. Grant this, O Lord, for 
 the sake of the Shepherd and Bishop of our souls, 
 Thy Son Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. 
 
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 17. 
 
 33 
 
 19. 
 
 33 
 
 26. 
 
 33 
 
 28. 
 
 33 
 
 28. 
 
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 29. 
 
 33 
 
 30. 
 
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 Sister Margarita. C.S.P. (1939) 
 Harry Newman. (1929) 
 
 Sister Eleanor. C.S.P. (1925) 
 Kenneth R. Macbeth. P. (1934) 
 Charles Yorke. D. (1880) 
 
 Tom Hallson. (1919) 
 
 Louise Gaiger. (1926) 
 
 Eliza Helen Wallis. (1890) 
 
 Marion Ethel Drake. (1897) 
 Michael Hamisi. D. (1942) 
 Archibald Harry Butler. (1895) 
 Klement Mnguu. D. (1928) 
 
 John Henry Moss. (1877) 
 
 Alice Marion Gay. (1894) 
 
 Gilbert Mpalila. P. (1938) 
 
 Mary Cornish. (1918) 
 
 Cecil Majaliwa. P. (1933) 
 Richard Coombe. (1889) 
 
 Caroline D. M. Thackeray. (1926) 
 Charles Frederick Mackenzie. Bp. 
 
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