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Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)CMS/G/AC 14A/101
TitleLetter from Reverend Theophilus Blumhardt, Basel
Extent1 item
Date1834
DescriptionDated 17 March. Muller appears too much influenced by exterior considerations and is not as spiritually strong as they could wish; 'he seemed to be paralysed by the thought to work alone in the Turkish states'; he has gone to Naples to see his brother. Volz and Knoth are on their way to London; agrees that episcopal ordination would be advantageous for them for work in Abyssinia; newspapers report the advent of six Roman Catholic missionaries in Abyssinia 'the appearance of whom may put fresh obstacles in the way of our Brethren'; comments on qualities of Volz and Knoth; their poor English may delay their ordination, but Gobat asserts that they pronounce Tigre well, which often Europeans are unable to do. Metzger's marriage to a black woman 'however valuable may be her personal character, may prove a serious impediment to his entering into a new line of engagement'; suggests Metzger and Gerber should go to work amongst German colonies in the western states of North America; should not cost CMS more in allowances than at present. Gunther is still unwell; Gobat is planning to leave at the end of May immediately after his marriage to Miss Zeller; three students are to be sent to South India to start a mission there.
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